MossBack wrote on Nov 6^th, 2010 at 2:51am:

Finally got there and did it with a 9 month old knee replacement.  Nothing like a good test drive on the Meadows and Louisa portages to convince yourself you still have several good trips left.

I did that the other direction last year with the original 60+ year old parts. (Of course, that was the back end of a trip that started up the Falls Chain and up to McKenzie then back to McEwen (using the long portage in) the down the Glacier-Louisa route.  By the time I hit those last portages, the knees were pretty much well oiled.)

dd