Baptism is first small TRICKLE of water coming into French ...river right (as said...after second bridge).  Just bring your GPS and you can't miss it.  Walk the river and tug your boat along behind...it ain't that far.  Three portages (or more)...river right.

If a dry year it will be reasonably hard...if wet and beavers have been busy...you will be challanged.

Hope the African Queen section is dried up!  Watch Bogart's movie before attempting.

Cache #1 going S took us 5+ hrs...(1 hour lost)
Cache #2 took us almost 7 hrs (lost for 2 hrs)
If wet....you loose all signs of the trail in massive marshes and swamps.  We also sat and cried alot.

PAW went through the next year and with drier conditions cut our portage times in half.