BWCA66

Great report and thanks for all the pics! Now has me even more antsy for my first trip of the season - BWCA in 18 days.

Another fixture is this sign... always worn, always crooked. And the Lydia Pond campsite outhouse... been photographing it every time I...

Yeah, pretty much all my projects slipped til now. Have 3 weeks to do some paddle and canoe refreshing before my first BWCA trip this year.

Did some of your winter projects slip until it's not "winter" anymore? Did you pull out the canoe, and realize that there's something...

Some of us like windy days. Benson

It does seem like this spring has been more windy than usual. I think it's because I sold the sailboat.

Chilean company with a majority owner who is friends with the Trump family. Profits to Chile. We do not have the smelter capacity in...

As a MN resident who has been to the BWCA over 200 times I'm torn. Mining if it can be done correctly does have a place but I would...

I use Ursacks vs a bear vault, they are lighter and pack down as they are being emptied. Don't think I've ever triple portaged but I do...

The ice will melt soon. Who is racing this year, and where? I don't intend to do any big races, just stuff around town and in state. The...

Kind of a potato day for the build today, so you get possibly too many photos of a scarf joint. When a scarf joint fits up properly, it...

Within a week I should be closing on a property on the south edge of the Gila national forest east of Silver City, NM. Looks like there...

I got serious about paddling around the age of 30 after learning as a kid. It was easy to dream up the next trip and look at the want...

I totally agree, finally worked in a BWCA trip last summer with my oldest (18) grandson and decided those trips need to be my priority...

Moving into a stage of life where I have young strapping grandsons who want to go canoe camping with grandpa. 1st trip was last August...