@inthehands As a very experienced paddler who specifically sought to increase is whitewater skills so as to avoid portages as much as possible (and that still doesn't get me out of carries between bodies of water), I hereby declare, by the power vested in me as a person who has carried every kind of small watercraft around every kind of obstacle: A 200 rod (which, is over a half mile if I am not mistaken) portage of a loaded wilderness canoe, is something to be proud* of!
*to the extent that any of us can be proud of the nutty things we do for fun