Anyone done this, or know of trip reports outlining a route, etc?

I'm thinking more along the lines of right through the heart of the BWCA...I know the border lakes route is "a thing"...people going from Voyagers all the way to Lake Superior, or parts of that route through the huge border lakes.

But I'm thinking more like EP 25/28/30 to EP 49/48/47 (or vice versa). Or something similar.

For some reason I'm enamored by the thought of cutting straight across the park rather than a loop...some day.

It can be done quicker than you think unless you "add on" to your route....like going to Lizz or Meeds. Maybe some looping down towards LiL Sag.

It can be a really quick trip if you start at the end of the Trail. Ely DQ Challenge. Not sure if outfitting staff up that way do this every year or not. But I know several who have completed the challenge... of course it helps to be up there 24/7 so you can pick a time/date/good weather/full moon etc.

Paddle to Moose from Sag... hitch a ride to the DQ in town... get a receipt with time and date and/or mail a postcard (not sure which one most do)... hitch a ride back to the landing and paddle back.


Ely Dairy Queen Challenge

2 of us did it in 7 days with a few layover days.
started at seagull lake, trip route: alpine, jasper, kingfisher, ogish (N1), annie, jenny, edddy, SA knife (N2/3), Sema, bunch of little lakes, spoon, pickle, kekekabic, (N4/5), pickle, spoon, dix (N6), Skoota, Missionary, Trader, Vera (N6/7), Ensign (N8), Newfound, Moose.

stayed 2 nights in Ely at VNO's posh bunkhouse, ate lots of good food, had a wonderfully relaxing massage at the Pebble Spa and then went across the street to the Ely Steakhouse for dinner. Brittons for breakfast and other stuff. then our ride came to get us and take us back to the gunflint trail.

yes, the trip could have been done in less time but we were having fun. it was the first week of OCtober and we got the last campsite on Ogish! wow we were surprised by that, got little sleep due to noise traveling across water..., hightailed it out of there the next day and saw no one until Vera.

Several of us gals did a route through the midsection back a few years. We did west to east. Started at Lake One and finished at Seagull.
Lake One, east through the numbers to Insula, Kawishiwi River across the bottom of Alice, northeast to Adams, Boulder then acroos Vee, Fee, Hoe toLittle Sag, Gabi, Ogish, - Jasper, Alpine, Seagull.
We were lucky enough to have family who dropped us off and picked us up. Great trip - In the middle section we saw very few other groups. - though we did get caught skinny dipping from the island site on Boulder - oops.