Puckster wrote on Jan 13
th, 2014 at 8:14pm:
Thanks Joe. Much white water? Good fishing? Lots of portages? Trip report? We were going to do that trip, but chose to paddle upstream from Artery back to Red Lake.
This was primarily a ww trip (the reason for the plastic canoe), so I didn't even bring a fishing rod. I know, heresy to most of you, but I am less of a fisherman than most QJers, and my canoe partner doesn't fish, so I figured why bother. More opportunity to lose things when we get dumped.
There is a portage around every stretch of ww, and we were portaging around most of the Class III's and up, so yes there were a lot of portages. All were fairly short and in good shape though, so the portaging aspect of the Bloodvein part of trip was pretty forgettable - in a good way. (Getting there was more challenging: there was still a lot of blowdown on parts of the Obukowin and Craven-Ford-Artery portages. It was good to get that over with at the beginning of the trip).
No trip report due to time constraints, sorry! But if you're thinking of this for the future, get Hap Wilson's Manitoba book for ww details. For other stuff, there's lots of info available on the web. PM me, and I'll answer whatever questions I can.