Wildfire in the BWCA
We were hoping we’d get through the 2013 canoeing season without a fire in the Boundary Waters. We haven’t had a fire ban all season long but it’s dry out there and now there’s a couple of fires burning. Here’s …
Canoe Trips and the Voyageur Crew
Our Voyageur Crew loves taking canoe trips and it doesn’t matter where they are. Lovely Kristi O. was spotted paddling the Mississippi River recently at our sister outfitter Clear Waters Outfitting Company. If you’re ever in Central Minnesota then be …
Boundary Waters Canoe Trip Meals
I read an article about wilderness meals and how they are important and should be good. Tell that to Josh and his friend Levi who were just out camping with me for two nights in the Boundary Waters. Would …
Summer is Here?
The temperatures of summer have finally arrived on the Gunflint Trail. We’ve had our share of 70 degree temperatures throughout the months of June and July but the heat wave has come at the end of August. Yesterday’s high temperature …
Quite the Catch
On a recent fishing trip we got quite the catch into our fishing net. I’m not sure what it was about the fishing net that Rugby loved so much but we couldn’t keep him out of it. Silly doggy, nets …
Boundary Waters Maps
There’s something about Boundary Waters maps that I just love. I can spend hours looking at the names of the lakes, the BWCA routes I’ve taken or planning a route for my next Boundary Waters canoe trip. When we first …
Sea Island Lodge on the Gunflint Trail
I could dig out the Gunflint Trail Cookbook to check out details about Sea Island Lodge at the end of the Gunflint Trail. I’ll apologize right away because that would require work and at this point I don’t feel like …
Happy Birthday Isle Royale Wolf Pups
They weren’t born today or yesterday but they were born and that’s a good thing. Wolf pups are present on Michigan’s Isle Royale after no new pups were born last year. The population of wolves on Isle Royale is down …
Minnesota’s Endangered Species
There’s new information from the Minnesota DNR about threatened and endangered species. Some species have been removed while others have been added. These include plants and animals such as toads, turtles, dragonflies, birds, beetles and fish. It’s quite the impressive …
Boundary Waters Campsites Open
The bear problem has been solved apparently. Here’s a note from the USFS. The campsites on Caribou and Little Caribou will be opened tomorrow August 20, 12:01 am for visitor use in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. There have …