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Our trip to the Boundary Waters left us wanting more, so we couldn't let the summer end without another quick canoe trip. We headed to the Sylvania Wilderness, located in Upper Michigan near Watersmeet in the Ottowa National Forest. It offers 50 nice, canoe accessible, wilderness campsites. We...

Sylvannia Wilderness - for a short holiday weekend one may reserve sites to avoid getting there to find everything taken after the drive up, Especially since it's just the long weekend. If you had more time the BWCA would be ideal - I think it's the best paddling in the midwest of the US.

Family favorite tripping breakfasts: 1. Oatmeal packets (plain) with dehydrated fruit and nuts - just add boiled water and wait 1 minute (my favorite) 2, Hungry Jack Cheesy Hashbrowns with Bacon Bits and Ketchup packets (dehyraded, comes in a little milk carton) (husband's favorite) 3. The...

Wow, those photos are impressive. I should take lessons from you. Thank you so much for sharing. Wow. 6 or 7 moose. My daughter is dying to see a moose in the boundary waters but so far no luck. Guess we should try Canada too!

Yes, the water is low, lots of rocks to navigate just below the surface in the channel between River Lake and Amber Lake - but completely doable and entirely worth it.

We paddled from Boundary Waters Entry Point #37 to Amber Lake to camp a few nights - seeing a number of people on the way in to the halfway point, but never seeing another person once we set up our basecamp on Amber Lake. We used Lake Polly as a halfway stopover (about 9 miles) to camp on the...

We've been wanting to hit the Turtle Flambeau for a while, your pictures have inspired us to make some plans to get there and do some paddling. Thanks for sharing. Your dog looks great in the picture sitting up in the green canoe.

I'm impressed with your photo. You're looking very well organized, and your food quite healthy as opposed to my lump of loot. I'm prepping for the BWCA. Lots of processed junk to keep my junk food junkies happy and some nice home cooked dehydrated meals to keep me happy. I guess I spend too much...

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I just cook regular meals everyone likes and dehydrate the extra. I vacuum seal them in food saver bags and toss them in the freezer until the next trip. My personal favorites are beef stroganoff, chili, and left over sloppy joe meat (I serve with tortillas). Super light weight and compact when...

Gorgeous photos. Thanks for sharing a nice trip report.

Family paddles are the best. Beautiful pictures, cute kids. Thanks for sharing.

Nice pictures, especially the pretty canoes. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing so many great pics. Fantastic trip.

Nice write up Mark. Sounds like a fantastic trip. How well did you sleep with the one-eyed gator peeping at you?

Nice video, Mark.

Are you putting eggs in your food dehydrator? How do they come out? I love bringing those little cartons of dehydrated Hungry Jack canoe tripping, but wow, with bacon and eggs it sounds fantastic.

Did you have to portage that gigantic 100 lb canoe? Our 70 lb Royalex 17 footer is more than I can handle.

Thanks for sharing your report. I like that pretty red canoe!

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