Digital Time Travelers 2002

Virtual Trip Along 6 Pause Portage

5. Snowmobile Trail to Old Pioneer Rd.

Please be aware that this part of the route is on private property and requires permission.

 

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How to get a video or Quicktime version of 2002 6-Pause Portage project
The red arrow illustrates the portion of the 2002 6-Pause Portage covered on this page.
Looking north up Flerick Rd. before the 2002 portage route turns 90 degrees east.
The beginning of the snow mobile trail as it exists east from Flerick Rd.
Early on the trek across the Snowmobile trail.
Deep into the snowmobile trail the woods develops a canopy that would be similar to 150 years ago and the original 6-Pause Portage trail cross the 2002 route.
Where the Snowmobile trails strikes Old Pioneer Rd.

 

1.Creek and Mercer Lake 2. Start Portage Mercer Lake to Cemetery 3.Cemetery to Flerick Road 4. Flerick Rd. to Snowmobile Trail 5. Snowmobile to Old Pioneer Rd 6. Old Pioneer Rd to Gene Talyor's residence 7.Gene Taylor's residence to Midwest timber and slashings
8. Slashings to dense swamp 9. Open swamp to pine high ground 10. Pine high ground to willows 11. Willows to Murray Landing Road 12. Murray Landing Road to terrace on River 13. Looking from the Manitowish River to the terrace