BWCA Portage: Lake One to Carefree Lake

Portaging from Lake One

Looking carefully, you can see the faint portage trail through the forest between Lake One and Carefree Lake. See it just to the right of the large pine in nearly the middle of your sightline. You stay on this very faint trail until you reach the peat bog. You will come across a very small creek just as you enter the peat bog (about one foot wide). This creek leads out into the peat bog. You want to make for the small pond you can see in the distance.

You stop for a breather and take in a 360 degree view of the peat bog you must cross. At this point you are about midway through the bushwhack to Carefree Lake.

A small pond dots the peat bog between Lake One and Carefree Lake. You see it as you exit the forest. From here you look around. It appears that the easiest route would be if you stay left of this pond and follow the treeline, some of which is visible to the left in the distance. Carefree Lake would be in that notch, straight across this small pond, from where you are standing.

Now that you've made it over the portage, visit: CAREFREE LAKE

Portage from Carefree Lake into: Bushwhack into Plukesley Lake

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