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

For most of the trip thereafter, the crew of Civil War veterans, trappers and frontiersmen would portage the major rapids.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2021

Molly hasn’t told Jack about the portage project.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

The closure includes all land, water, trails, portages, campsites, canoe routes and wilderness entry points and is in place until Aug. 27.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2021

Rom dangled her feet over the water, which was a couple miles of portages, rivers and rapids from the southwestern border of the Boundary Waters.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2017

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

“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

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 portaged about 15-20 yards and then paddled through a stretch of flooded timber.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2016

As the river walls were too steep and broken to allow any of the outfit to be portaged, the boat would have to go through loaded.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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