The trail heads northeast away from the lake and crosses a rocky ridge before an alternating series of short muskegs and sandy ridges. The latter, providing excellent campsites, are well treed with spruce up to 25 centimetres in diameter. The trail from this point is the old original Chipman Portage, the south end of which was abandoned when the new route was cut from the Chipman River. From the merging of the two portages no further muskeg is encountered. In one place the trail forks then meets again, the west rail crossing a stream then climbing a steep bank, the top of which provides a good campsite.
Loading is difficult here as the lake is very shallow.
A small creek connects the two lakes. The portage is found a few metres to the east of where the creek enters the lake. The trail over large rocks is very rough at first but changes to fair condition later. Unless very low water conditions prevail, canoes can be paddled carefully over this obstruction. The extreme east side of this is navigable until an unloading site on the west side of the brook is reached.