Maybe not recently, OK...but I've done that route. See if you can get my piece, "Mysterious McKenzie," Boundary Waters Journal,Summer, 2001.

After the article appeared I got a long letter from an attorney in Chicago asking why we didn't go from McKenzie to Belaire to the Wawiag. It was a good question. While there does not seem to be much current in the Wawiag at Kawa Bay, further upstream it's a steady paddle or slip back. I'm told the portage from Wawiag to Belaire is better marked than when I made the trip.

Let us know how you do.

Tim