This thing called portage, It's called fun?
I grew up loving the water, waterskiing, and canoeing but then I met grandma and all that stopped. She had this fear of water and had panic attacks everytime one of her youngens went out with me so we put water sports out of the equation. I sure did miss it for a while but life has been good finding dryer pastimes. Kind of sad, too, because Idaho has over 3200 miles of navigable rivers. I watch from the trail as the daredevils float the Selway or the Middle Fork or the Payette. Sure looks fun.