BWCA 2009

Portages

These are a selection of pictures taken showing some of the portage activities. This year was considerably easier than last year. We made 19 portages totaling over 3.3 miles. Since we had to make 3 trips each for each portage, we covered about 10 miles on the portages. A couple of the portages were so long that it is not practical to walk from one end to the other without resting. So on the long portages, we break them up into several sections. We had to make one of the longest portages that we have done in the BWCA this year because of the low water conditions. One of the lakes that was in a sequence of lakes and portages was so low that we had to walk around it to the get to the next portage. That resulted in having a 340 rod portage which is just over a mile long (1.06 miles). Use your browsers "Back Button" to return to the thumbnails or click back again to return to the text.