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02/23/2014 02:41PM
I was looking through all my older pictures, I've lost so many it sucks but anyway. This is one of my oldest BW photos it was taken in the late 80's or early 90's I'm thinking 89 or 90. We camped on Basswood just west of US Point and we decided one day to bushwhack up to the top of the bluff to see what view we had. That is our campsite over my shoulder. This was 25 years ago and about 40 lbs ago LOL 
02/23/2014 04:48PM
Not technically BWCA, but this is Spartan1 on the Namakan River trip with his friends from Camp Easton (Boys' Camp at Ely) in 1967. This was before we were married.
Also not technically BWCA, but this is me in the narrows above Crane Lake near the end of our first canoe trip (six-day Namakan River Loop) in July of 1971.
Also not technically BWCA, but this is me in the narrows above Crane Lake near the end of our first canoe trip (six-day Namakan River Loop) in July of 1971.
02/24/2014 12:32PM
my life before age twenty seems to have been deleted, i must have been adopted or else i am in a witness protection program. me in the chugach mountains, alaska about age 21, i never found the gold i was looking for but then i never was eaten by a bear so i guess it all worked out somehow. 
02/24/2014 05:06PM
quote jwartman59: "quote Spartan2: "Not technically BWCA, but this is Spartan1 on the Namakan River trip with his friends from Camp Easton (Boys' Camp at Ely) in 1967. This was before we were married.no life jackets, the good old days"
You will also notice, no gear. Their gear was on the bank and they were just running the rapids for fun. But I was aghast when I saw the photo!
02/25/2014 06:29AM
quote cowdoc: "quote mr.barley: "
My brother and I on our first trip. ...1985"
totally awesome tent dude :)"
We had an orange nylon tent in the 70's; didn't everyone? They were all the rage back then. This was 1973. Our second trip, first trip with our own canoe and tent, Lake One, four days.
02/25/2014 10:57PM
This is the oldest trip photo I have scanned. (I have some a few years older, but they are badly faded Instamatic snapshots). This is from a 4-week trip I took in 1974 when I was 13. I think the photo was taken on an old logging sluice on the Seine River northwest of Quetico. But the exact location might have been somewhere else between there and Rainy Lake, maybe on the Turtle River or between some of the lakes like White Otter or Marmion. Can you tell which guy is Ho Ho?
02/26/2014 06:12AM
quote Ho Ho: "This is the oldest trip photo I have scanned. (I have some a few years older, but they are badly faded Instamatic snapshots). This is from a 4-week trip I took in 1974 when I was 13. I think the photo was taken on an old logging sluice on the Seine River northwest of Quetico. But the exact location might have been somewhere else between there and Rainy Lake, maybe on the Turtle River or between some of the lakes like White Otter or Marmion. Can you tell which guy is Ho Ho?
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Yes. :-)
02/26/2014 06:49AM
quote dogwoodgirl: "Not strictly speaking in the BWCAW....we were back in camp in this photo. Should be 1974 or 75. The little strip of land between Hungry Jack and Bearskin."
It's comforting to know that some things are eternal. Look at the expression on the girl with the v-neck tee. My daughter would have that very same expression 20 years later.
02/27/2014 10:25AM
1964, Kahshahpiwi Lake, towards the end of a two-week trip with the Explorer Scouts out of the Moose Lake base. I've been making annual trips with one of these guys for over 20 years. The kid with the sailor hat went to the Naval Academy, then Top Gun school and flew fighter jets in Vietnam.
02/27/2014 10:37AM
Don, Bob, and me back in 1972. Dad, who was our old Scoutmaster, took me and two others up to Quetico back in 1972. First time for all of us. I thought for sure I'd be back up there with my dad again, but it never happened. I have taken both of our daughters individually when each turned 13, so glad I did that!
Dave
02/27/2014 03:43PM
quote Basspro69: "yes. there were alot of walleye spawn pockets in eddy falls and the whitefish & suckers were sitting out in front of the falls just chowing on the spawn floating by them. once we realized that we used the smallest junk of yellow twister that would fit on a bare hook and added a split shot. we anchored each end of the canoe crossways in front of the falls and just pick our line up and let the current take out the hook. we battered fryed them and were they good :)quote shock: "the oldest i could find. 1989 south armNice, are those whitefish in the middle of that stringer.""
02/28/2014 08:14AM
quote dogwoodgirl: "quote starwatcher: "
Since it was initially established in 1964 and then the BWCAW in 1978; some of these photos my pre-date the park.
starwatcher "
Oh yeah, the old canvas tents that you cut poles for every night! Brings back some memories there..."
Hey dogwoodgirl, then you may remember swimming in 6-12 mosquito repellent; since I don't think that canvas tent kept the mosquitoes out. (I still remember the fragrance of the bug dope)
02/28/2014 09:19AM
quote TomT: "1983 Homer Lake EP. My girlfriend now wife.
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I love these old pictures! Buddy of mine had a brown Jeep Renegade that I loved. I envied him, and always thought our aluminum Lowe canoe would have rode a lot better on that than my Torino and our Pinto (LOL)?
02/28/2014 09:25AM
quote starwatcher: "quote dogwoodgirl: "quote starwatcher: "
Since it was initially established in 1964 and then the BWCAW in 1978; some of these photos my pre-date the park.
starwatcher "
Oh yeah, the old canvas tents that you cut poles for every night! Brings back some memories there..."
Hey dogwoodgirl, then you may remember swimming in 6-12 mosquito repellent; since I don't think that canvas tent kept the mosquitoes out. (I still remember the fragrance of the bug dope) "
Oh--I hadn't thought about 6-12 in ages!! Makes me remember YMCA camp and Girl Scout Camp more than anything else! The whole camp smelled like it--I think the cabins and tents were just permeated.
02/28/2014 09:41AM
quote ozarkpaddler: "quote TomT: "
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I love these old pictures! Buddy of mine had a brown Jeep Renegade that I loved. I envied him, and always thought our aluminum Lowe canoe would have rode a lot better on that than my Torino and our Pinto (LOL)?"
I had a lot of fun in that. It was a 3 speed and to go in 4 wheel drive you would have to get out and turn a dial on each front wheel hub. It was really old school but I thought it was cool. No soft top either so I would take the doors off most of the time.
I once chained it to a telephone pole and pulled a big caddy out of a field with the winch. A friend of mine borrowed his Dad's caddy and thought he could go 4 wheeling. :)
02/28/2014 10:15AM
A couple of favorites from my first two trips, showing features long-since removed:
Portage sign at Stuart River portage to the Ely-Buyck Road, 1978
Table at site on Lac La Croix, 1980
I had always remembered this as being at the "Lady Bird Site," but now I'm not so sure. We were on 3 LLC sites that trip: C0012 in Snow Bay, C0150 east of Pocket L, and C0178 in Tiger Bay...
Portage sign at Stuart River portage to the Ely-Buyck Road, 1978
Table at site on Lac La Croix, 1980
I had always remembered this as being at the "Lady Bird Site," but now I'm not so sure. We were on 3 LLC sites that trip: C0012 in Snow Bay, C0150 east of Pocket L, and C0178 in Tiger Bay...
03/01/2014 09:03PM
quote analyzer: "These pics were scanned from my printer into the computer.quote Dennisal: ""
That's interesting. The lower right pic has LARGEmouth bass. Not too much of that up there.
Love these old pics.
I have some oldies. How would you suggest I get them on the computer?"
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