Boundary Waters Canoe Area, United States Travel Blogs

BUT, WHAT ABOUT THE SUMMER?
Sep 16, 2005

... : I joined friends Cory "Johnny" Anderson, Lucas "Johnny" Seipp-Williams, and Adam "Johnny" Rohr in visiting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. We canoed and camped for five days in the land where silver-gray lakes intertwine with thick, bear forest, and sea ...

Immense Voyage Day 7
Jul 5, 2008 (11 photos)

... the brim, and by law, anything that needs to be taken out is at the bottom, requiring the entire thing to be emptied out. In a canoe, that would be hell. Mireille asked if I couldn't wait 30 minutes, as we were almost at our campsite. I was a good sport ...

Miscellaneous Post
Jul 5, 2008

... . The blue splotches on the bottom of every page of my journal from when it got wet. Uncomfortable logs around the cuisines in the Boundary Waters that made your butt ache after a meal. Losing half of my pens no matter how hard I tried to keep track of ...

Immense Voyage Day 5
Jul 3, 2008 (10 photos)

... up!" Sorry, everyone!     I had a great time paddling with Zoe. We matched each other's strength almost perfectly, our canoe wasn't too heavy, and we never ran out of things to talk about. It's amazing the difference it makes in your day ...

Immense Voyage Day 3
Jul 1, 2008 (10 photos)

... while I sat and did nothing, and then we reached the second portage. This one is a very popular one which had a mechanical canoe-train. You press a button a watchman at the top of the (enormous) hill sends the buggy down, you put your canoe with all of ...

Immense Voyage Day 2
Jun 30, 2008 (7 photos)

... we took out on Thursday afternoon. We were going to put in here, right where we left off, and head east into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Wilderness. Once we get into the BWCAW tomorrow, we won't see any motor boats, cabins, power lines, roads, ...

Immense Voyage Day 6
Jul 4, 2008 (10 photos)

... Silence" by Sigurd F. Olson, a naturalist and a writer who rivals Thoreau and who was the main advocate in the protection of the Boundary Waters. After that we all (silently) got into canoes and set on our way. Dalia took Etienne and I. She dropped me off ...

Immense Voyage Day 8
Jul 6, 2008 (11 photos)

... possibly be sharing this experience with when they surprised me with their rendition of "The Circle of Life." Also, today in the canoe, before things started getting too bad, I did some hard thinking. I was thinking about how before this trip started, ...

Immense Voyage Day 4
Jul 2, 2008 (10 photos)

... established yesterday! Then Mirielle picked up a canoe by herself and set off. I marveled at her strength as Etienne and I lifted a canoe and began walking. The portage was steep, steep, steep. It was rocky, meaning each step had to be a careful process, ...