To answer some of the other questions....we'd love to be at Copia but we're usually prepping the planters and tractors by that time. We went both years we lived in Madison but I'm not sure we've made it back in the last few years.

The current areas definitely always have my attention. I think the most pucker-factor I've had in a canoe was in the narrow spot below the Curtain Falls portage landing. We were just fishing one evening and thought we'd paddle up....we were wrong. I've yet to go over but that was as close as I've felt.

As far as that location specifically...is there just the one portage? I thought I was reading where there was a short one or a long one that was really steep.