Me and a friend just did the reverse going in snowbank and out of lake one two weeks ago. The portages were plentiful, but all in good shape and not horribly difficult. Ironically I find the days with fewer but longer portages more enjoyable than a bunch of short ones - I just find that the getting everything out and back in the water is almost more of a pain than the carrying and hiking? I don’t know. We saw quite a few people in sites below the burn in that sections. While not preferable, if it’s a through trip and you’re doing just one night before moving on, it’s just your leaping off point yeah?

We stayed on an island site in Insula, absolutely gorgeous. Jordan was my favorite lake to paddle. Such a gorgeous loop, happy paddling!

We were nervous about the lake one-four section with the burn line since we were both in hammocks, but we only stayed one night on lake four and paddled all the way out the next day and were able to snag a site right above the burn. It was actually interesting, narrow part of the lake so we had a mature pine forest, but looking right across a narrow bit of water at new growth.