Portage

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The tugboat Radium Express being portaged around the rapids at Fort Smith, on the Slave River in the Northwest Territories.

A portage is an overland route for circumventing a navigational obstacle on an otherwise navigable river. Alternately, it is the term for transitting a route around a navigational obstacle.