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Portage Description: If the water is low you rockhop, paddle, then rockhop to get to the landing of the first portage.#1 - 28 rods - This is the most difficult of the three portage on your way to Hope Lake. It starts of steep and is full of loose rocks and windfalls. #2 - 34 rods - You have one beaver dam to pull up in the section of creek before this portage. This one is just like the last overgrown with windfalls. You start off with a small uphill section before getting to an area that would be a small pond in wet weather. #3 - 25 rods - Don't believe the Inukshuk! It lies! It is not the portage just a landing and then a bushwhack that leads to Hope Lake. The real portage is a few rods further south. Lake after portage: Hope Lake Known campsites: 3 Lake Description: The lake is not really much to look at. Just a round lake with some blowdown littering the shoreline. This area is in Zone Three of the Fungus Lake Primitive Management Area. *You must have a special permit to camp in this area.* Portage from Hope Lake into:
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