boundary waters canoe area – Second Runnings

First foray into the BWCA Day 3

I awoke groggily on day 3 to the final sounds of rain on the tent fly. The lightning had abated and left us with a pleasant night of rain that helped lull me into a deep slumber. Eventually though the bladder decided that it was time to see what the storm had left us with […]

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First foray into the BWCA – Day 1

We got to spend a nice quiet night in the Sawbill Lake campground before our shuttle the next morning. We awoke early, with the sun, and started packing up our things into our new rental portage packs. The portage packs were WAY bigger than we had anticipated and so we were able rearrange gear in […]

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First foray into the BWCA – Day 0

Growing up in Minnesota you would always hear about people taking trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in northern Minnesota. Even the church I grew up in would do a yearly men’s trip up there to fish and camp for a week. However, I was a nerdy little kid who preferred books and […]