BWCA Portage 682 (Moose to North Fowl)

Miserable mucky landing on the North Fowl end. From there the first third or so of the trail is strewn with boulders before morphing into a less bothersome walkway. The Moose Lake end is a little rocky but much more pleasurable to deal with and has a nice dry staging area. There were some nice cedar trees near the mid-point too.

This year and time of year this portage was very muddy with the water very low. It was a bit of a struggle to paddle through the mud enough where we could stand but we did it! Interestingly on the Moose side of this portage there are, what I assume are, non-BWCA campsites right off the portage, at least two. The landing into Moose was a great beach looking area and was pleasant.

easy portage. gradual elevation changes

We climbed up and enjoyed lunch on the Canadian cliff campsite next to the portage. It's a beautiful view down the lake from there. The east end of this portage is a mucky mess as one looks out through the reed bed into the Fowls.

it got really muddy and slippery due to high water level. A lot of standing water on the portage.

The water was down quite a bit, and coming out of North Fowl we had 40 feet of muck to pull the canoe through. The kind of muck that sucks your feet down by 10-12 inches.

Heading east along this portage was mostly downhill. Once arriving at North Fowl, we had to wade a little bit out into wild rice to get the canoe floating.