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adam

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05/01/2009 11:00AM

It is time to start the May 2009 Photo Contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Bogs".

Monthly Category: Pictures of BWCA and Quetico Bogs

This is a contest to see cool photos of Bogs of the Boundary Waters and Quetico region and optionally pictures of bogwalker in his element.;)

There is again a special reward for this months contests. Along with winning a hat, Wilderness Passages Magazine, created by long time member QPassage, is giving a free copy of their great magazine and a 2 1/2 hour DVD of Quetico footage to the winner of the photo contest and trip report contest. For more information about Wilderness Passages, you can visit their website at WildernessPassages.com

Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).

- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.

- You must be the photographer of the photo.

- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.

- Please describe in the message where the picture is from.

- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.

- A member may win once per year.

- Photos must be posted to this message by 11:59pm on May 31st.

- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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fishguts

05/01/2009 07:54PM

This is the "Bog" at the start of the "Long Haul Portage" between Pond Lake and Little Gratton, Quetico Provincial Park, June 2008

fishguts

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snakecharmer

05/01/2009 09:02PM

A rainy day in a PMA.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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bumabu

05/02/2009 05:09AM

Who I am precedes what I do, not the other way around.

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DeterminedOrange

05/02/2009 05:00PM

Nice one snakecharmer!

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ktoivola

05/02/2009 05:09PM

No name lake off of IMA

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Ho Ho

05/02/2009 08:25PM

That's a really great picture, ktoivola

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L.T.sully

05/03/2009 10:32AM

The Creek Between Meeds and Caribou

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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RoJoYo

05/03/2009 03:17PM

Bog east of Parent Lake

"You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing." B. Franklin

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TomT

05/03/2009 05:49PM

August 2008.

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ILikePike

05/03/2009 07:31PM

Cow and Calf. above Johnson Falls August 2008

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” -Edward Abbey

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mattmilleroutdoors

05/03/2009 10:12PM

just about to the mouth of Agnes 2008

Melted Drags and Tight Lines!

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Navigator

05/04/2009 09:59AM

Moose Bay, Lake Saganagons, Quetico

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moose plums

05/04/2009 01:16PM

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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MooseTrack

05/04/2009 02:44PM

Somewhere in the Quetico...can't remember where.

For those interested (not to advertise) I am an outfitter and guide.

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Scrubb

05/04/2009 03:01PM

North Wilder to Kawishiwi River, I think:

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Bannock

05/04/2009 03:54PM

Here's one of Bogs in a bog. :)

Bannock

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Bannock

05/04/2009 03:56PM

Here are a few bonus Bogs pictures. :) Note that in the last picture he is wearing his BWCA.com hat in the VNO bunkhouse on the night before a trip.

Bannock

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johanismyvzual57

05/04/2009 08:44PM

Canoeing through a portage that was flooded from a beaver dam.

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immingct

05/05/2009 01:06PM

[PLACE HOLDER]

Leaving in 12 days and have no photos to submit since I have never been there.

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UncleMoose

05/05/2009 09:35PM

Geez, Bannock. The campfire spark in that second shot is heading right for Bog's eye. I sure hope it missed.

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thecanoeman

05/06/2009 06:39AM

This is a little stretch of water by Chippewa lake. it was very boggy, the bog was covered with blooming Pitcher plants and Sundews.

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Ho Ho

05/06/2009 06:44AM

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UncleMoose

05/06/2009 09:00AM

Awesome, Ho Ho. That could be a winner.

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RoJoYo

05/06/2009 01:20PM

Mooseplums....nice picture.

"You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing." B. Franklin

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Bannock

05/06/2009 02:59PM

"The campfire spark in that second shot is heading right for Bog's eye. I sure hope it missed."

Actually it was his last viable brain cell flying out of his ear.

Bannock

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Ho Ho

05/06/2009 09:32PM

I thought maybe it was the visible trace of his terrifying magic power to turn normal people into portage-loving idiots.

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BigZig

05/07/2009 06:41AM

Ho Ho - That overlook on the Yum Yum Portage is simply breath taking. Nice shot.

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crutch5

05/07/2009 08:21AM

This is the portage from hell! The entire portage from start to finish is actually one big bog. From Point lake to Isabella lake in the Quetico.

CRUTCH 5

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mr.barley

05/07/2009 09:56AM

I thought for sure this was one of those bigfoot pictures with a canoe photoshopped into it. ;-)

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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UncleMoose

05/07/2009 07:58PM

Pitcher plants on bog at Star Lake in Quetico.

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h20man

05/07/2009 08:00PM

On the way to a portage 2007.

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Corsair

05/08/2009 08:29AM

Wrong turn on portage between Boulder and Cap by my friend Bill.

"Pack lightly, Tread lightly"

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natnkath

05/08/2009 01:17PM

One of the portages between the three letter lakes 2008

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woodpecker

05/10/2009 08:36AM

Crutch5

just had to make this post per your bog pic....looks like that classic "bigfoot" pic with a canoe on its shoulders..HAHAHA Good one!

Woodpecker

"The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten."---Sigurd F. Olson (The Singing Wilderness)

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starwatcher

05/10/2009 02:13PM

"Autumn Gold" Tamarack bog at the end of Jackfish Bay, October 22, 2008.

starwatcher

"When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live." Sigurd F. Olson

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Journeyman

05/10/2009 07:09PM

Quetico shortcut between Grey and Dell Lakes

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wetcanoedog

05/10/2009 09:06PM

the Sultry to Silence bog portage,Quetico,spring 2006.
when i made this carry solo in 2005 the bog was to wet to cross and i had to make the rock walk on the West side.

it's just a level trail thru the woods.

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Georgiaboy

05/11/2009 04:45PM

Coming in on the Stuart River. Beaver dam washed away and we were left with a "bog" to cross. You can tell my wife is happy by her body language.
June 08

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ozarkpaddler

05/11/2009 10:48PM

Back before digital I had an el' cheapo 35mm I took paddling. Here's one I really liked of my friends son and a couple moose on Gift Lake. WW

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain

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cowdoc

05/12/2009 10:00PM

June 07 from "Top of the World"

"What could happen?"

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campgirl

05/13/2009 05:48PM

2004 Trip from Atikokan to Ely. Can't remember exactly where.

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ekffazr

05/14/2009 09:42AM

the day of infamy.....
there was a water way through this bog at one time, just not this time
Aug 2007 near Oyster Lake

couldn't pick just one pic sorry, one would not have done justice to the event

He, who would give up freedom for security, then neither deserves nor will receive either. -- Ben Franklin

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airmorse

05/14/2009 11:10AM

That's a great time line of Pic's...and minty fresh breath to boot. WOW.

"It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you think you've got the stock market beat...but a man worth while is a man who can smile when his shorts are to tight in the seat", Judge Smails.

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mr.barley

05/14/2009 06:06PM

Oh the humanity!

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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starwatcher

05/14/2009 09:38PM

LOL mr.barley!!!

starwatcher

"When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live." Sigurd F. Olson

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Georgiaboy

05/15/2009 05:05AM

Great pictures! I guess I have decided that I will take the portage from Agnes to Oyster this summer thanks for the tip:)

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thecanoeman

05/15/2009 07:18AM

ekffazr,
I hope you don't mind I copied your photo (women stuck in the mud) to a group of women I'm taking out this summer.

That is one funny photo!

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ekffazr

05/15/2009 12:43PM

theCanoeman

help yourself.........its a hilarious picture.....she was yelling "SAVE YOURSELVES" at that point in time

:O)

He, who would give up freedom for security, then neither deserves nor will receive either. -- Ben Franklin

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L.T.sully

05/15/2009 05:29PM

Wow, I don't bring orbit to the BW.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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airmorse

05/15/2009 07:27PM

ekffazr,

That's sooooo funny, made me laugh. Hard to do these days.

"It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you think you've got the stock market beat...but a man worth while is a man who can smile when his shorts are to tight in the seat", Judge Smails.

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pmagoo7777

05/15/2009 08:37PM

This is my brother or his alter ego Jungle Boy, I am not sure which.

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steveo_21_hoyt

05/16/2009 02:37AM

ekffazr, your pics bring back some fond memories. our group was trying to avoid another portage from Agnesb to Oyster and found out exactly what your pictures explain. we did it memorial weekend and it wasn't much more of a channel than what your group encoutered. thanks for the pictures. sure brings back good memories.

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starwatcher

05/17/2009 10:45PM

I think ekffazr deserves honorary mention if he doesn't win the May photo contest!

starwatcher

"When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live." Sigurd F. Olson

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Merganser

05/18/2009 10:27PM

The Orbit pic is hilarious.

"That sort of thing is my bag baby."

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mr.barley

05/18/2009 11:18PM

Only way it would have been better is if he'd been holding a tube of Mentos.

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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ekffazr

05/18/2009 11:41PM

people smiled
mission accomplished

:O)

He, who would give up freedom for security, then neither deserves nor will receive either. -- Ben Franklin

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bennyis

05/20/2009 10:23AM

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Blackstick

05/21/2009 06:52AM

Baptism Creek

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DuluthPak

05/21/2009 06:38PM

Pitcher Plant of Sundew Bog

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Kiporby

05/22/2009 10:06AM

Bog on the portage into Other Man Lake. May 2009.

There is a light and it never goes out. Morrissey

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shoreviewswede

05/29/2009 01:14PM

After viewing this string of pics, I think I want to avoid bogs. :)

Be Nice -Swede

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Bannock

05/29/2009 03:19PM

Especially in the rain!

Bannock

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sterngirl

05/30/2009 04:15PM

The "portage" from Adams to Boulder.

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cowboymac12

06/02/2009 10:57AM

Pmagoo777,

Is that Lower Pauness Lake, at the Shell Lake portage?

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain

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bennyis

06/02/2009 11:08AM

PHOTO IS FROM CROOKED LAKE

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pmagoo7777

06/02/2009 08:18PM

Yes it is. Here is one of me on the other side.

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cowboymac12

06/03/2009 09:12AM

Hilarious! I know the water was way low in 2007; we did a Sag-South Knife-Seagull loop in August that year, and the water levels were way down. Did that portage last summer, and even when they are up, those two landings can be really muddy.

I think Shell Lake has reclaimed those logs since then.

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain

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adam

Moderator

06/22/2009 10:13PM

The winner of the May photo contest is Ho Ho. A tough topic and some great pictures making for a tough decision.

The trip report contest goes to rlhedlund.

The extra hat goes to Corsair.

Congratulations to the winners! Thank you everyone for sharing such great photos and trip reports!

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Ho Ho

06/23/2009 06:33AM

Cool! My favorite category, too. There were a lot of fun pictures and ekffazr's series is hilarious.

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ekffazr

06/29/2009 06:03PM

Thanks HO HO

He, who would give up freedom for security, then neither deserves nor will receive either. -- Ben Franklin

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