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Have you done any estimating / guesstimating on the calorie count of your menu? I'm sure you will burn in excess of 4,000 cal/day, and 1.5 lb / day seems a little light to meet that requirement. On my trips the food - mostly dried, plus nuts, fats etc. - goes around 2 lb/day and I still manage...

I agree portage spotting from satellite photos can be pretty hit and miss. Here are a couple more quotes from the old Berard map describing this trail: "“North end trail follows bottom of cliff along west side of floating bog”." At the Bloodvein end: "“Trail begins in marsh at...

Is this the portage you are thinking about? It's described on Real Berard's "Sasaginnigak Canoe Country" map as: " 'long port' (100 chains)-trail fair-some windfall and swamp." Berard's maps relate to trips in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so this is hardly current information. I crossed...