Day 4 – Journey from Ogema Lake to Long Island Lake

Today was a long journey and the win was rough but no as hard as the previous day. It was also a day of many first. One of portage was 185 rd and very steep. It took us a significant time to clear this portage.

When we entered the narrow and long Kiskadinna lake, we had the win in our face the whole time, I thought that my arms were going to fall off.

At the end of Muakeg lake we needed to clear the so called muddy portages, the problem is we could find the short portage indicates in the map. The first one was only like one rd, three canoes start searching the location of the portage, however, the beaver dam didn’t show any clear path. Steve and Stephanie decided to push their loaded canoe over the beaver dam to the marshland. We saw this maneuver as decided to follow. This path is now known as “Steve’s Portage”.

We navigated slow through the marshland.

At the end, we faced the same issue as in the previous portage, we couldn’t find the portage and we found another beaver dam with a water fall. Mike decided to walk the water stream to the next lake to visualize the portage from the other end, when he came back, he indicated that the portage was the water stream.

The path wasn’t muddy but wet and with a lot of rocks making walking really difficult. I fall in the stream with my load and scrape my right knee really hard. Nothing that Sue’s paint killers couldn’t fix.

We finally reached our camp site and started the normal process. The bar opened earlier, needed whiskey to relax the pain.

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