SunCatcher wrote on Nov 13^th, 2011 at 10:14pm:

Planning on a loop of Beresford Lake, Manitoba to Garner, Jester, Haggert, Welkin, Beamish,Irregular, Mather, and then connect up with Jester and Garner and head out to Beresford lake.  Well that's the plan for now!  May try and go in June or July this time instead of August (seems to be lower water in Aug) SunCatcher

The good news along that route is that a portage crew went thru there in June this year (although I thought there were some areas they could have brushed out a bit better.  I'd say the water dropped a good 6 inches between going in and coming out for us this year.

A tip on finding the beginning of portages along that section into Jester.  Paddle as far as you possibly can and THEN look for the portage.  There were a couple of spots in there where my maps suggested where the portage would be and it looked as though others had exited there, but the trail soon disappeared.  Others must have does the same search that I did.

The section between Garner and Haggart has very few campsites ... 3 that I know of--one on Jester and one each on the two larger lakes along that route (send me an e-mail if you need to know their location).  Also, there are a couple of places that are marked as short portages (lift overs) that you could probably paddle through, given adequate water.  So you might give those a quick look before you unload.

You might check around, but I seem to remember that parts of Irregular (and maybe Mather) were burned over not too long ago.  Since I went north out of Haggart, I didn't get a chance to investigate those lakes this year.

dd