Or this?

 

Yep

As Peek said, the 955 from Little Nadine to Little Osler. I booked this route two days ahead of time, while at work and only glancing at Jeff's map long enough to go "yep, those lakes connect".

Night 1,  I'm camped out on Erables and finally have time to sit down, relax, and look at my next day's route - Erables to Nadine. I'd already flagged it as a kind of sucky travel day with 7 portages totaling ~5km (kayak, a lot of loading and unloading), but as I sat down and took a good look at the map,  I saw "Heart Attack Hill" for the first time. Holy hell, a 90 meter elevation change in 2/3rds of a 955m portage. I got up early and got on the water early, because I had no idea what that portage was going to feel like. I mean, I knew it was going to feel like crap, but I didn't know to what extreme it was going to feel like crap.

I was already through four portages that day when I reached this one. I'd seen it on the map, I knew what was coming, and I went into it with the mindset that it was going to suck - and that was what saved me. I expected it to be terrible, it was terrible, and I came out the other side intact. I started out single portaging, full of confidence. Then I got to where the serious climb began, and I started to wonder if double portaging wasn't going to cut it. I'd struggle up the hill for ~50 feet with my pack, hunched over, gasping for air and feeling the burn in my legs, leaning against every conveniently placed tree, then I'd walk/fall down the hill, pick up my kayak, and struggle it up as far past my backpack as I could manage. Rinse, repeat, for what felt like a damn eternity. The worst part is that the last ~300m of that portage is a steep drop back down the waterline, so you can't even really feel like you accomplished something. You climbed a hill just to go back down.

Then I did two more portages that day. Good thing Nadine Lake turned out to be pretty nice.

 

<----- Bob, aka Kayak Camper on Youtube. 

I've been kayak camping for many years, and honestly feel like I have it down to a science at this point. I haven't built a new yoke in about a year now because I can't find any significant enough flaws with my latest version to justify it. 

I've never tried to market or sell my design, but (in my entirely unbiased opinion it's better than what you just paid for. If you find that isn't working out for you let me know - I'll build you one for the material costs. 



 

The paddle-in site sounds like a good compromise. I wasn't considering any serious portaging, more like the ~200m portage out of Canoe Lake into all those beautiful lakes behind it. But I guess that's still the difference between an hour back to the car versus a few, and maybe that's too ambitious until she's a bit older. And yes, I'll definitely have to wait and see what her temperment is like come next summer.

Thanks very much for the advice (and any still to come!).
 

Peek: where are you finding the price?

Trying this again. Quick post. Minimized still. Now I embed an image.


That makes my reply window virtually impossible to use, so I click Maximize.


Hrm. I have the buttons this time, so disregard. If I figure out how to reproduce what happened last time I'll let you know.

'Quick Post' is bad. Trying the actual 'reply' now.

Really don't like what happens when you embed an image. This is a tiny little reply window. The image immediately takes up the entire reply screen (and much more).


 

And this would be post #2! Significant milestone achieved!