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Portage required to cross Coffeepot Lake

Cris Currie portages a canoe across a dry area between the two ends of Coffeepot Lake, where water levels are very low in March 2015. (Nora Searing)
Cris Currie portages a canoe across a dry area between the two ends of Coffeepot Lake, where water levels are very low in March 2015. (Nora Searing)

WATERSPORTS -- Although the boat launch is closed because of low water at Coffeepot Lake east of Harrington, paddlers and anglers with small boats can still get on the water.

But to get through to the west end of the lake, be ready for a long portage across the dry divide, as the photo above indicates.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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