BWCA Portage 342 (Knife)

One of the worst portages I have been on. Awful. Buggy. Muddy. Just bad. Bad. Did I mention bad? Brutal. Just sucked. Shoes/sandals sucked down into the mud, mosquitos like I have never seen before in my life (and I grew up in this state and was basically born in the woods, so I don't want to hear it from the keyboard warriors). However... the awful portage led into Sema, which was cool. If you're willing to brave the awful, AWFUL, horrible, terrible portage, you'll be rewarded with some nice Lakers. We brought back a limit from 2 hours of fishing.

Sema itself is a very unique lake. There's a feeling about it with decent topography, clear water, and some sandy shores. After paddling across and finding the campsite occupied, we followed the shoreline down to the campsite. Then it was up and over and into the vast expanses of Knife.

Somewhat sandy landing on shallow Knife end. The trail to Sema seems to follow a small brook for a good portion of the length. Shortly after starting out there is a long succession of boulder strewn small mud holes as the trail slowly climbs. In most places the mud wasn't too deep but, did have the tendency to make the boulders quite slick. Also, I imagine this will be ground zero for mosquito hatches during warm weather. The trail dries and levels out over the last 1/3 of the trail which terminates at a very nice pebble beach landing on Sema.