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09/07/2009 06:35PM
New Trip Report posted by 2112
Trip Name: First BWCA trip - Lake One to North Wilder.
Entry Point: 30
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Trip Name: First BWCA trip - Lake One to North Wilder.
Entry Point: 30
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09/08/2009 12:47AM
Your description of getting through and out of Lake One using a map made me laugh as it reminded me of our first trip which was also out of Lake One.
We weren't sure we were going to survive with our map reading ability. Then, once we figured out the scale it was much easier.
We weren't sure we were going to survive with our map reading ability. Then, once we figured out the scale it was much easier.
10/04/2010 08:05PM
Nice report. I sit here during the evenings sometimes and browse canoeing reports and just read yours. It really brings back some fond memories of my generally misspent youth!! I’ll never forget our first trip, August, 1978. I recently found my map from that trip. I have had it in a box with miscellaneous cycling and camping gear, through all my college moves, law school, my apartments after law school and now in my second family home. I recall how we also had trouble navigating. We missed our turn into Basswood Falls and ended up a few miles into Canada without even realizing it until the next day.
Falling asleep to the eerie, lonely call of the loon is one of my favorite memories of that trip and every trip since.
I don’t want to tell you something you may already know, but there are many ways to hang a bear bag. And now with YouTube, etc. it is very easy to learn the various methods. I’ve had some odd configurations over the years, but have yet to lose my food to Ursus americanus. As you return over the years you'll get the chance to try different styles.
It is nice to have the other campers on the lake respect the quiet of the BWCA. listening to the woods always enhances a trip!
Falling asleep to the eerie, lonely call of the loon is one of my favorite memories of that trip and every trip since.
I don’t want to tell you something you may already know, but there are many ways to hang a bear bag. And now with YouTube, etc. it is very easy to learn the various methods. I’ve had some odd configurations over the years, but have yet to lose my food to Ursus americanus. As you return over the years you'll get the chance to try different styles.
It is nice to have the other campers on the lake respect the quiet of the BWCA. listening to the woods always enhances a trip!
LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/
10/06/2010 11:35PM
Nice job outwitting the bears!
Those lakes are hard to navigate normally - and now the water is so low, many "islands" are peninsulas!!
Those lakes are hard to navigate normally - and now the water is so low, many "islands" are peninsulas!!
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau
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