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If you can find a time and place to do some paddling before you go but I know there are plenty of folks whose first canoe experience is in the bwca. You might be best to avoid some of the larger lakes.

Welcome to the site, I'm from SE MN. How old are your kids?

That was fun, thanks. My mom and dad manned a fire lookout tower in remote Oregon in 48 & 49.

Don't really think this is a new trend, between hammocks and tents we have been doing this for years.

I listened to a podcast with one of the survivors, they had been there many many times, weren't drinking but didn't see a need for the PFD's. A PFD maybe wouldn't have saved a life but it would have made recovery easier. The survivor I listened to lost his brother on this trip. You just never...

Vinyl ester has a much shorter shelf life than polyester or epoxy.

I've put in at the campground and while I'm glad I did cause it was November and we got 14" of snow and the road to EP 32 wasn't plowed it does add 4 portages that added together are more portage length than the portage at EP32. The south kawishiwi is a very popular route often with few open...

Starting at Hog creek and trying to get from Perent lake to Isabella lake in the fall is usually a bad idea, there tends to not be much water between those 2 lakes. Hog creek is usually used as an in and out entry point.

There really aren't any long river/stream systems in the BWCA and most of them have more portages than a carefully planned lake route.

As a frequent visitor to the BWCA I think it's too bad this was needed but it was, too many sloppy careless campers resulted in many habituated bears which is as bad for the bears as for the humans. There was a lot of complaining but compliance was pretty simple - either get or rent certified...

The Isabella river flows from Isabella into Bald Eagle but the current isn't too strong. My guess is the Snake River and Little Isabella river are very low this fall.

Nice place for a short trip, I'm planning on one the first weekend in Nov. Hope the weather holds.

In MN an inflatable is only legal if you wear it 100% of the time. I would go and try a bunch of different ones on and buy the one you will actually wear.

Robin - so good to see you getting out there - thanks for another great video and report.

I find it very accurate for distance, campsites, portages,etc. but not so much on time. You can change how fast you paddle and whether you single or double portage but I think it still assumes you never stop paddling.

They were fishing above them in the early spring, the water was high and cold and one canoe got sucked in and the other followed to help, no one was wearing a PFD. Sad and tragic.

It is the story from this spring, 2 got rescued and 2 were recovered after an extended search and rescue effort.

I can't see them either.

Depends on type of canoe - hull layup and gunnels material, etc.

After ruining a few phones I bought a waterproof Olympus Tough TG6 waterproof camera, nothing fancy but it is waterproof and has probably saved me a phone or 2.