portage

“Normally you would only portage a very small section of the river around an impassable rapid, maybe a waterfall or something,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2025

This was an important historical spot for the Coast Salish peoples as a canoe portage between Lake Washington and Lake Union, before the Montlake Cut was dug to unite the two water bodies.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

If you don’t need quite as much power and portage, Satechi sells a 66W three USB-C port charger for $55.

From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2022

The Indian Agency House was built along the portage route between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers in 1832 to house agent John H. Kinzie and his wife, Juliette.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2020

Their latest portage wasn’t going well at all: One of the canoes had smashed into the boulders.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Exploiting a series of portages linking Lake Michigan and local rivers, they paddled their canoes from Canada’s Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Superior National Forest officials had closed trails, campsites, portages and bodies of water in the area, to assist in the search.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

There was one industry that the new city would excel in, which did not require ships, portages, or much labor at all.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017

Escaping civilization means lugging your gear — canoe on shoulders, gear on back, feet on trail — across dozens of winding portages between lakes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016

“The frequent bad rapids making so many portages necessary. Our position every day grows more serious; the food supply less.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Recognizing that he could rise no higher in Kiev, this ambitious, natural-born commander sailed and portaged down the river Dnieper, then crossed the Black Sea to Miklagard, the Big City, as the Scandinavians called Constantinople.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

In his seminal book, The Emerald Mile, author Kevin Fedarko estimated the crew ran 414 rapids and portaged or lined the boats through another hundred or so.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2021

Joined there by the Beauchamps, they kayaked through some “dangerous waters,” dealt with 15 logjams and portaged over the Roush Lake Dam in Huntington.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2017

Paul found a campsite on a rocky point and we dropped our gear and portaged into Argo Lake for a scenic four-mile loop.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016

They went to Fond du Lac, thence up the St. Louis river, portaged round the falls, thence to the nearest point to Sandy lake, thence up the Mississippi to Leech lake.

From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Flandrau

All went well up to day 13 of 16, when the group of rafters approached Lava Falls, “the gnarliest rapid I’ve ever navigated” and one you can’t avoid by portaging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

“We were portaging, and Wynn said to me, ‘I can’t make it,’ ” he recalled.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

At any rate, traveling by kayak means always having the option of simply taking to land and portaging everything into a better channel.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

All day on Friday, workmen made this fifteen-minute trek, portaging necessities for the evening: armfuls of peonies, sewing machines swathed in muslin, inscrutable spiky objects in gold.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

Tiller and Florida had traveled the length of Hidden River and had spent the last two hours portaging into the Goochee River.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech