BWCA Broken Leg: the Last Portage

My wife said it best when she saw this clip: "stubborn man." The rest of my group was a great help on the portages, carrying all of the canoes and the packs, leaving me with some paddles, life jackets, and water, but I decided I needed to finish the last portage the way I came in--with my own pack on my back. It took me a while to get across that portage, but I made it. My friend, Tom, captured this clip when he came back up the trail to check on me.

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• broken
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[TheHikingStick]

Wow! Crawling into camp and across portages--now *that's* amazing!

Every break is different. Mine was relatively minor (a chip broke off at the end of the ulna), but yours could have been much, much worse.

How did it turn out when you got back to town? Did they need to re-break it so it could be set, or were they just able to set it?

[warmon6]

wow. the a lot of birch tree in the area you walked though.

well at least that tail looked mostly flat for you to easily walk on.

[TheHikingStick]

It was flat in that section, and much of it was. It was the final portage coming into Snowbank Lake out of Disappointment (170r?). I seem to remember there being a bowl in the middle section where it was lower, and we had a couple of trees across the trail. Still, not the worst of the week. My friend filmed me when he came back up the trail to make sure I was doing okay. He had waited a while before starting back, so it took me a while to get there.

[warmon6]

ow. i cant image having a broken leg for that long. i can image it was though on some of those portages.

[warmon6]

ah i know where you talking about. Snowbank is very large and takes a while to canoe across it.

Well at least your getting better.

[WildQuade]

Broke my leg on the first day in on a 9 day. I crawled for 5 days and hobbled for 4. I didn't leave because my partner needed someone to row. I was never able to walk this good.

[dmaul7]

broke a leg in a car accident and i crawled 300ft to get help, it was no laughing matter, kudos to anyone who can do this.

[SirFelix377]

A broken leg, are you kidding me? You are tough, I probably would have cried like a baby.

[algentry1]

OK, I give up, you're tougher than me. :o)

Al

[willpeterson13]

lol my dad broke his leg before we went to the BWCA, it looks exactly the same, good work on the portage with a broken leg