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Re: Favorite portage
Reply #10 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 2:45pm
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I've only taken one in Q, Nym to Batchewan.

My vote goes for the last portage.  It's the last one!
  
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Reply #11 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 3:29pm
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No need to limit this to the BW/Q.  Any portage anywhere can be thrown in as a favorite.
  
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Reply #12 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 3:58pm
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Cache to Lindsay, because I'll never do it again!

Best memories, 1 hour snooze on the flat rock overlooking Lower Basswood falls portage, Canadian side,  during a late Aug lunch.
  
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Reply #13 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 4:04pm
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There's a nice one in APP going from Shah to Misty.  Starts with a steep up, get that out of the way early.  Long gentle decline to Misty.  Nice transition from high-ground to a swamp edge to the lake proper.  Near halfway is a grove of cedars that blocks a view to an old tote road, long since decomissioned & overgrown.


Temagami has an intersting one on the Lady Evelyn R., N Chanel.  Going upstream it's the 2nd one from Sucker Gut.  Not long, but follows a set of waterfalls.  About halfway is a 10-15' cliff.  A solo tripper might want to rope the canoe up.  There are solid foot-holds, but the cumbersome canoe + the wrong wind would be interesting.


Dickson/Bonfield in APP for bragging rights.  5.3km/1000 rods - mostly it's long with a couple tricky ankle twisting sections.  It's the portage that broke me, double carry, I got fed up ~500m from the end and camped on the trail at dusk.  Finishing the next morning I just laughed at myself for getting so close & yet being so far.
  
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Reply #14 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 4:42pm
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The trail skirting the Devils Cascade along the Little Indian Souix is nice.  The portage coming into Walter from the north stands out due to its old growth pines, etc.  Another cool spot is the boardwalk bridge constructed somewhere along the Marge and Joyce route.

Also would second the Bentpine/Clair and the Basswood/Kett portages.

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Reply #15 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 5:05pm
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The portage around the last falls leading out of the pot hole section of the Kopka River- you can hear the river going down, down but the portage stays up until.....
  
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Reply #16 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 5:08pm
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Following the boat.
  
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Reply #17 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 5:18pm
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That simply an amazing portage, Solus.  Can't imagine ever doing something like that.

For me, I still recall the feeling I had on that portage from Crooked into the SW arm of Argo.  Heading gently uphill through old forest was like going back in time.  The gound was so soft, the air so damp, and the pines so old.  And then after hitting the peak and heading down to the granite slab diving into that unique tint of Argo's water....I'll never forget it.
 
  
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Re: Favorite portage
Reply #18 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 5:42pm
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Yellowbird wrote on Mar 30th, 2012 at 4:42pm:
Another cool spot is the boardwalk bridge constructed somewhere along the Marge and Joyce route.

-YB


That boardwalk is a big improvement over the first time I took that portage.  Basically a single/double log bridge with the logs going end to end about 10' over the swamp. Can't recall how they held the logs up there and in place but it looked pretty iffy.  Somewhere I've got a pic or two of it.  I just recall looking at it, thinking "you CAN NOT be SERIOUS!!!"
  
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Reply #19 - Mar 30th, 2012 at 6:54pm
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Any portage where the blueberries are thick and ripe is my favorite.
  
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