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Good.  Then I'll go with what Martin Kehoe has called “The Slot Portage.”  

Kingfisher & I had "bushwhacked" into remote Irvine Lake the hard way (from the east).  Exiting via this unique portage somehow made that extreme effort feel worthwhile.

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Just your mention of the "Slot" gets my blood pumping. Imagine what it felt like to pull some brush aside and see that awesome place. Standing there with images racing through my mind of all the people  it had seen for thousands of years as they passed through or sought shelter inside its walls.

When Claire from WCPP checked it out she deemed it too dangerous of footing for a park portage. I found an alternative on river right and the park cut it open. The RED124 fire of  2011 burned the north and some of the east end of Irvine Lake. It appears to me, from studying the fire map, that the fire did not cross the stream and burn the "Slot portage" on river left. Not so for the trek you made into Irvine from the east.