Community Trips
Larry and Joe's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Trip
Forest Center, Minnesota, United States
Canoeing / Backpacking | 45.5 miles
Canoeing / Backpacking | 45.5 miles
This is our August trip to Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). It was our first, but not last, trip to BWCA. It began early morning Friday, Aug 22, when our outfitter dropped us off at the entry point on Lake One and ended 5 days later at Snowbank Lake. I had pre-loaded the route on my Garmin eTrax Vista GPS, which proved helpful on many occasions. The track on the map was recorded by the GPS during...
Day hike from our campsite on Rose Lake to the stairway falls.
Paul, Bill, and Myself in a Souris River. Quetico 18.5 on a 6 day adventure.
Ken drove up to the trailhead on Friday afternoon arriving around 5:30PM. By the time we suited up and headed out it was around 6PM and the sun was starting to set. We had about 2/3 of a full moon, so we trekked along on the frozen Cascade River until about 10PM. The moon was bright enough on the snow that we only used headlamps briefly when we came to obstructions on...
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Originally we hoped to hike north to Western Lake. We realized we would not do that having just a base camp on Phantom. We also discovered that Schlamn Creek flowed across the trail (and the portage.) The stream flowed wide and full. (see the picture) We couldn't find an easy way to cross.
Someone has...
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losed to motor vehicles, motorized equipment, hang gliders and bicycles! The Forest Service posts this sign at the edge of the wilderness.
Wednesday we traveled south to the point where the logging road entered the wilderness. We then retraced our steps and traveled east past Meat Lake to Clark Lake.
Years ago I frequently fished...
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We had 5 goals beginning this trip.
1. Enjoy early spring in the Great North Woods.
2. Discover the condition of the old logging roads.
3. Learn to use our GPS units to navigate in the wilderness.
4. Determine if these trails/old...
Hike from our Rose Lake site E towards Mountain Lake. Got 2" of snow overnight. Trail is right next to international border. Fresh Wolf tracks over ours in the snow on the hike back to our campsite. Lots of old growth red and white pines.
Hike in to Rose Lake. Lowest barometric point recorded in Minnesota over night. Category 3 Hurricane readings
Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States
5.0 miles
5.0 miles
HIked from truck to Rose Lake campsite. Stayed for 3 nights after large late October storm dumping 5 inches in Duluth. Got 2" of snow second night. Wolves all around us.
Theresa, Mae, and I snowshoed from road into Baker Lake and had lunch by rapids. LOTS of snow up here now, nice.
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