It is time to start the May Photo Contest, as well as, Trip Report Contest.

Monthly Theme: Springtime

Show us your photos of spring in canoe country.

The winner receives their choice of a hat, shirt, or other optional prizes available each month.

Trip Report Contest: Any trip report published monthly is in the running for winning the prize.

Photo Contest winners are automatically included in a run-off for the photo of the year and the year-end prize!

Remember 1 entry per person, please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win with it prior.
- Photos don't need to be taken in the month of the photo contest. You can enter any photo you have taken which matches the theme.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the right to post it.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo that you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message the location of the photo.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this thread by 11:59pm on May 31st. Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) or png format and uploaded to this site.
- Additional rules

Thank you for participating!

fiddlehead ferns

Ice crystals on Rice Lake.

May last year, first trip of the season, was to be "ice out", but not quite! Duncan Lake.

Little Trout - March 2024

Shoreline on Wine.

Moose twins on Malberg...Memorial weekend

Unfortunately, I have never been in Canoe Country in the spring so I don't have any pictures from that time. I guess I don't qualify for the contest.
But here is some from this Spring in Yosemite . The dogwood trees were in full bloom and looked incredible.
I’ll just have to settle for Spring in CA

Pussytoes; Carp Lake, Quetico PP; June 10, 2013 (late Spring).

LISN May 2020

Northern lights from the Kawishiwi river on campsite 1141. Taken Friday May 10, 2024.

Outskirts of bwca

Iron Lake

This was caught over Mothers Day weekend from Angleworm Lake!

Bull Moose enjoying lunch in a pond off The Grade.

My son Nick walking the trail between Clear Lake and the Kawishiwi River.
5/20/24

Spring in canoe country( we found it on the rocks)

Spring conditions on the Missing Link-Tuscarora portage, May 2024

/Users/sueswenson/Desktop/P1000992.JPG I have no idea why I cannot drag photo into this space! I am too old for some of this technology that keeps changing. It is a photo in Mid May(opening weekend paddling on Mudro Lake headed east into the rising sun. Poplar leaves just emerging and sun is due east.

Ice-out on Lower Pauness

Sunrise on Tuscarora

May 28 2024

CookHam: "Spring in canoe country( we found it on the rocks) "

LOVE IT!!! :)

Congratulations to the winners of the May contests!

Photo contest: OTTERTAILVOYAGEUR
Trip Report contest: KjerJoy
Extra Prize: AlmostCanadian

And thank you everyone for posting your photos and reports!