BWCA Portage 857 (Angleworm to North Hegman)

This portage isn't marked on the PP map correctly. We had two McKenzie maps. The older 2006 copyright is the same as PP. The newer copyright shows the portage to begin at the same location as the Angleworm EP portage and then split at the same location the Angleworm trail intersects. This is correct. If you are traveling from Angleworm Lake, at the intersection, you can either continue up the portage to the Angleworm parking lot, take the Angleworm Trail, or take the diagonal trail intersection to the southeast toward the Hegmans. The landing on Angleworm and the trail leading from it is entirely overgrown and difficult to spot. Once on the actual trail, it is easy to follow. However, it is not easy to travel. It goes up and down, through a muddy bog that would be awful in wet weather, through multiple boulder fields, over rock outcroppings that are slippery when wet - a little bit of every type of portage challenge. We were doubling this one and spent a couple hours traversing the trail. Frankly, I'll be happy to avoid it in the future.

oh f*ck this portage so hard. The bogs can be boggy as bogs can bog, and you'll likely lose a shoe trying to get through. Both my group and a different group had to tap out of this one a third of the way through from Trease because of the impassibility of the mud hole.

Might have just been the winter, but this portage was really rough. Brush encroaching the trail on every side, plenty of trees down on the trail, and lots of water crossings. We struggled through this one.

Besides the length - there are hills, rocks, branches etc. to contend with, but none of these proved to be anything too severe. It's all about how wet the mud hole is when you choose to cross.