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Re: Chatterton/Keats/McDougal
Reply #10 - Apr 29th, 2024 at 11:09pm
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Portage from McDougall to Keats can be a real challenge.  Very steep drop on the Keats side as I recall.  McDougall fishing is spot on for smallies. 
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Reply #11 - Apr 30th, 2024 at 12:25am
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QP is correct. We just portaged back into Chatterton, Paddling past the faint pictos around to the falls.  Cool Easy & quicker. Fishing is good on both lakes. While the portage from Russell is in the bay to the south of the falls it’s not too bad, uphill both ways.  Wink

Every night we had laker and/or waldo for dinner. Yup, tough trip. Cool
  
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Re: Chatterton/Keats/McDougal
Reply #12 - Apr 30th, 2024 at 11:34am
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QPassage wrote on Apr 29th, 2024 at 11:09pm:
Portage from McDougall to Keats can be a real challenge.  Very steep drop on the Keats side as I recall.  McDougall fishing is spot on for smallies. 
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You'll get a sore neck just looking UP at this portage from the Keats side. Easily one of the steepest portages in Quetico. In wet conditions it could be a disaster as there was very little, if any "winding/snaking" to the trail... just STRAIGHT UP.  Even "hand hold saplings" were missing (probably uprooted by desperate portagers in free fall).  Anyway, more power to anyone who survives it; I take my hat off to you ( I generally DO at funerals).

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Re: Chatterton/Keats/McDougal
Reply #13 - May 9th, 2024 at 3:15pm
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We did the portage 95 I think.  We took rope and dropped the packs and the canoe over the ledge.  Still wasn't much fun, though the view was stunning.  That was the year we dumped our canoe southeast of Keats Lake "pics of that area were lost".  We lost just about everything, food, maps, camera.  We had been on Sark the year before so we winged it to Sark then went on in from there.
  
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