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25 How long does it take to do a portage? (Read 23114 times)
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Re: How long does it take to do a portage?
Reply #40 - Dec 12th, 2009 at 7:45pm
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One of the nice thing about a GPS is it gives you data.  Here are some examples.  The 164 rod from Crooked to Argo took us 150 minutes.  This was our first day out, the third portage of the day, and we were exhausted.  There were four of us, 2 men and 2 women, out-of-shape, and two of us with bad knees.  A group passed us on that portage (3 people in one canoe) and they easily did the portage in half the time. We were double portaging and our canoes were an 18' aluminum battleship and an 18 kevlar.  The next day, we did the 126 rod portage from argo to darky in 80 minutes.
  
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Re: How long does it take to do a portage?
Reply #41 - Dec 13th, 2009 at 3:15pm
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I never wear a watch.

But I confess to asking people the time, if only to gauge progress on a long travel day.

Nevertheless, to me the true measure of whether I've let myself get immersed in the wilderness on vacation, db, is not whether I monitor a societal yoke like "time," but how many days it takes for me to think about work and the problems I'll be returning to.

Smashdancer and I used to work together in a pretty stressful environment, and one trip we went six days before talking around a fire about any work issues.

That was a good trip.

-- kypaddler
  
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Re: How long does it take to do a portage?
Reply #42 - Dec 19th, 2009 at 4:09pm
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I have only timed one portage. The portage from Trousers Lake to Cache Lake took us from about 8:00 am till 9:00 pm. It was quite an experience. I agree that time in not that important. We have found and setup camp in the dark many times.
  
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Re: How long does it take to do a portage?
Reply #43 - Dec 19th, 2009 at 5:17pm
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kstar ...(thread diversion)....
that one took us eight, and out of Cache to the S took us six...but just for comparisson....PAW did it in a dryer year in 4 and 3 hours.
  
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