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billconner

01/02/2012 03:53PM

Anybody here done that? It was suggested in another thread but no comments. I know some leg of that has to be steep because Arp to Louisa is, but maybe not so hard following the waterways.

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Stumpy

01/03/2012 01:30AM

I know a guy who did it. They had to sleep in the woods, half way there. Not much to paddle, as I recall him saying.
Good luck.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly

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bojibob

01/03/2012 09:54PM

Bill,

At one time there was a portage into Gamp which was formerly know as Cross Lake. Our very own BWAC.com has a Map that shows the old portage routes.

SNF & Quetico Canoe Routes Map -- 1929

I remember seeing that and checking current maps and not seeing that it was still shown as a current route...for whatever reason.

"One inch on the map ~ is not one inch on the ground"

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arctic

01/05/2012 12:20PM

That may very well have been a winter route. It would make little sense to use that route in summer due to lack of water.

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PINETREE

01/05/2012 08:41PM

I remember getting out and walking around trying to find that portage trail about 15 years ago. No luck.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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billconner

01/05/2012 09:59PM

It's also on Fisher map E-15. Seems like an interesting adventure.

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PINETREE

01/06/2012 06:58AM

Yes it was on my map too,but still could not find anything.Yes at one time probably was something.I have a map showing a portage into Swartmen lake also. But I know of none. Like some I walked thru the brush for alway's looking for it.In reality it is nice to have some destinations with no portage trail.Makes it more wild a challenging.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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Banksiana

01/06/2012 10:04AM

I believe the portage is a "Fisher Fantasy", like the portage from the northern Tuck river to Marj- straight lines heedlessly drawn over crooked terrain.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.

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Stumpy

01/06/2012 11:22AM

Bill,
If you're interested, the guy I know who did it, is Jeff Hway. He works at Bear Island Land Co. He used to work for Tom & Woods Outfitters at the same time I worked at CBO.
I'm sure he'd be willing to talk about it, if you contact him.
Ed

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tumblehome

01/06/2012 01:16PM

quote Banksiana: "I believe the portage is a "Fisher Fantasy", like the portage from the northern Tuck river to Marj- straight lines heedlessly drawn over crooked terrain."

That's a good term to describe many unused Canadian portages and/or foot paths . I've thought about them many times as I study maps and wonder why they are on the map in the first place and who would have drawn them on there.

I'm not a cartographer so I don't know the history behind the maps but I suspect many of the features of today's modern Fischer maps have some origins from way back when the red lines actually were a portage used by people or machinery. Who knows?

Tom

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arctic

01/07/2012 08:29PM

Some of the portages on the old maps were wishful thinking by people who had never traveled through the area. Same with campsite locations.

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