Several years ago, we took the Basswood River route. QP has some nice pics to illustrate the route. We did the tow to the Back Bay portage and had no problems getting to Robinson in one day, even with our overloaded bear pinata. The rookie carried it. We opted for the chain route to McIntyre as we didn't think there was a portage directly into McIntyre. Our maps did not show one. We basecamped McIntyre and daytriped to other lakes. Our exit strategy was to pre-park a vehicle at Mudro, which is free now.