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Pinetree

07/11/2018 11:36AM

Blueberry delight

They looked to good not to post. You get full just looking at them. Head to your secret location now.

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flopnfolds

07/11/2018 11:46AM

Pinetree: " Blueberry delight

They looked to good not to post. You get full just looking at them.
Head to your secret location now."

We were on Lake Vermilion last week, and found some of the blueberries were ready, and some not. The ones we found in the sunnier spots were definitely ready to be picked.

We also found ripe strawberries!

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Pinetree

07/11/2018 11:51AM

Predictions on blueberry crop? Super abundant or a flop?

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HappyHuskies

07/11/2018 11:54AM

Pinetree: "Predictions on blueberry crop? Super abundant or a flop?"

Very abundant crop in my neck of the woods (a few miles out of Ely). We're picking now.

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TuscaroraBorealis

07/11/2018 12:18PM

Already have picked a few ice cream pails full. And that's with plenty of green berries still on the bushes. It's looks like a great year from what I'm seeing.

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Lotw

07/11/2018 12:30PM

definitely a good crop here and at peak right now

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Duckman

07/11/2018 12:33PM

Anyone else just end up traveling around the background map?

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landoftheskytintedwater

07/11/2018 01:45PM

Blueberries (some ripe, some not) on Finger and Loon last week/weekend.

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northallen

07/11/2018 02:04PM

Seems early. We're going to stay on the Gunflint Trail the week of July 30. Hope there'll still be some for us. We're bringing pancake batter just for the blueberries.

One more cast... 'Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience' R.W. Emerson

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Twins87

07/11/2018 02:18PM

We picked to our hearts content last week along the Gunflint Trail. Still a lot of green berries on the bushes. Sure seems like a bumper crop this year but I am not an expert.

Surprised there were so many ripe ones to be had. We weren't prepared for it but filled up water bottles & an empty trail mix bag with berries while we hiked. I've been eating them every morning this week for breakfast and we were able to send some home to Chicago with our friends.

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jcavenagh

07/11/2018 02:18PM

Stay away from my secret location!!! <:-o

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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jcavenagh

07/11/2018 02:20PM

MMMM...Blueberry breakfast from the hammy!

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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Canoearoo

07/11/2018 03:26PM

I bought (actually won them on a Facebook contest) wild blueberry plants from Prarie restoration and planted them in my garden. They are doing better than my cultivated berry bushes. It's like a piece of the BWCA in my back yard.

Life jackets float, you don't!

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inspector13

07/11/2018 04:10PM

Maybe that explains how there are ripe ones on the Gunflint Trail, but all my blueberries are still small, white, and hard.

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missmolly

07/11/2018 04:34PM

Come to Maine. They're in every field and ditch. If sunlight can reach them, they're growing.

That photo of the buckets of blueberries dropped my jaw. It would take a lot of hands or a lot of time to pick all those!

I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.

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riverrunner

07/11/2018 05:11PM

My wife is out picking now.

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Lotw

07/12/2018 06:26AM

missmolly: "Come to Maine. They're in every field and ditch. If sunlight can reach them, they're growing.

That photo of the buckets of blueberries dropped my jaw. It would take a lot of hands or a lot of time to pick all those!"

If the size is good it goes quick!!!

I'm seeing lots of ads for blueberries for sale right now, $35-$40 a gallon seems to be the going rate

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yellowcanoe

07/12/2018 10:29AM

missmolly: "Come to Maine. They're in every field and ditch. If sunlight can reach them, they're growing.

That photo of the buckets of blueberries dropped my jaw. It would take a lot of hands or a lot of time to pick all those!"

Those are alot bigger than our lowbush berries on the ground. I hiked and ate them on Monday in Vassalboro.. This dry spell is not helping them get any bigger

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johndku

07/12/2018 11:18AM

We enter the BWCA this Sunday at Seagull....save some for us!

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Zulu

07/12/2018 11:30AM

They just arrived at my secret location.

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missmolly

07/12/2018 11:54AM

yellowcanoe: "
missmolly: "Come to Maine. They're in every field and ditch. If sunlight can reach them, they're growing.

That photo of the buckets of blueberries dropped my jaw. It would take a lot of hands or a lot of time to pick all those!"

Those are alot bigger than our lowbush berries on the ground. I hiked and ate them on Monday in Vassalboro.. This dry spell is not helping them get any bigger"

I bet you're right. Ours are puny, but tasty. I bought some South Carolina blueberries in Nova Scotia last month and they tasted like mushy balls of blue water.

I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.

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Lotw

07/12/2018 12:16PM

I have never seen as many Juneberries as this year, They fill a bucket faster than blueberries. I ate enough last night that I didn't need supper. I believe they are about finished though.

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jcavenagh

07/12/2018 03:54PM

Zulu: "

They just arrived at my secret location."

Gee...I suppose that's some sort of magical box that gives you beer, bacon, and ham!

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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Zulu

07/12/2018 05:20PM

I think they use the puny ones in BooBerry cereal.

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4keys

07/13/2018 07:12AM

Lotw: "
missmolly: "Come to Maine. They're in every field and ditch. If sunlight can reach them, they're growing.

That photo of the buckets of blueberries dropped my jaw. It would take a lot of hands or a lot of time to pick all those!"

I'm seeing lots of ads for blueberries for sale right now, $35-$40 a gallon seems to be the going rate"

$40 a gallon? Wow. I just paid $ 18 for 3 gallons that I picked at a farm.

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northallen

07/17/2018 03:41PM

Two weeks til we head up north. Hopefully late in the season we'll find that one berry that has been soaking up hot summer rain, and is bigger than the rest.

My wife is starting to think I'm Linus to her Sally, and I'll overly obsess on the "Great Blueberry" and ruin the rest of our BWCA time.

One more cast... 'Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience' R.W. Emerson

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egknuti

07/17/2018 04:22PM

Blueberries now!

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jcavenagh

07/17/2018 04:46PM

northallen: "Two weeks til we head up north. Hopefully late in the season we'll find that one berry that has been soaking up hot summer rain, and is bigger than the rest.

My wife is starting to think I'm Linus to her Sally, and I'll overly obsess on the "Great Blueberry" and ruin the rest of our BWCA time."

I've tried to get pics of the Great Blueberry, but mine are always blurry.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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arctic

07/17/2018 04:46PM

I picked a bunch today from my garden. This year's crop has BIG berries--thumbnail size--probably due to the abundant rains we've had.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey

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FishGeek01

07/18/2018 11:34AM

Heading into the Lake Insula area the 27th through that next week, anyone care to share locations we can find any that way... Or is that worse than asking for those infamous fishing holes...?

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LuvMyBell

07/18/2018 01:52PM

FishGeek01: "Heading into the Lake Insula area the 27th through that next week, anyone care to share locations we can find any that way... Or is that worse than asking for those infamous fishing holes...?"

Blueberries are one of my favorite fruits but free blueberries is not enough of an incentive to schedule trips during the height of bug season.

I'll buy my blueberries at the store and continue to schedule early Spring and Fall BWCA trips.

You summer trippers obviously have thicker skin than I do. One July trip, getting eaten alive was enough for me.

Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.

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Banksiana

07/18/2018 02:26PM

Blueberries and bugs abundant in the Quetico during last week. The exposed sites doing better this year, ridge lines, rock outcrops, islands. On my way back one of the portages on the Range river had a patch that was unlike anything I've ever seen. I picked handful after handful- sweet and hot from being in the sun. It got primal.

Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s going to die.

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treehorn

07/20/2018 10:55AM

FishGeek01: "Heading into the Lake Insula area the 27th through that next week, anyone care to share locations we can find any that way... Or is that worse than asking for those infamous fishing holes...?"

I would think almost anywhere in the burn areas will be teeming with them...southern part of Insula if that's where you're at. If my experience earlier this week over by Sawbill is any indication though, you'll have no trouble finding them almost anywhere right now.

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timatkn

07/20/2018 07:01PM

All the islands on PickerelLake were full of Blueberries, they should be good now, last week still just a little bitter not quite ripe yet

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yellowcanoe

07/20/2018 08:10PM

Banksiana: "Blueberries and bugs abundant in the Quetico during last week. The exposed sites doing better this year, ridge lines, rock outcrops, islands. On my way back one of the portages on the Range river had a patch that was unlike anything I've ever seen. I picked handful after handful- sweet and hot from being in the sun. It got primal. "

orgee.... on your back stuffing your mouth

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Pinetree

07/20/2018 09:07PM

Sounds like my canoe friends are in a feeding frenzy along with the bears.

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TomT

07/20/2018 09:31PM

FishGeek01: "Heading into the Lake Insula area the 27th through that next week, anyone care to share locations we can find any that way... Or is that worse than asking for those infamous fishing holes...?"

There's "The Rock" where you can cliff jump. The north side (I think) of the hill is loaded with bushes.

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw

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bwcasolo

07/21/2018 05:50AM

not the north, the wife brought home a case of organic from the co-op. she's a volunteer and member, we get a nice discount.
enjoy the picking.

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johndku

07/23/2018 06:57AM

Just got back from Alpine, Ogish, etc., berries in the burn areas are ready to eat. Had the best blueberry pancakes of my life on Tuesday.

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jcavenagh

08/14/2018 10:41AM

So...how are the berries doing now?
Seems like it was an early year for them in 2018.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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Pinetree

08/14/2018 10:50AM

I would think getting well along in the cycle,but there is some much more tuned in than I.

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egknuti

08/14/2018 11:18AM

jcavenagh: "So...how are the berries doing now?
Seems like it was an early year for them in 2018."

There are berries still on bushes but most are over-ripe now.

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jcavenagh

08/14/2018 12:32PM

I am thinking the berries might be prime up north in Wabakimi and WCPP.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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mirth

08/20/2018 01:04PM

Berries were pretty solid in exposed, virgin areas last week. We picked enough for snacking and some good blueberry pancakes.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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bmaines

08/21/2018 09:44AM

Wanted to get a couple gallons going right away. Have another 5 gallon batch hanging out in the fermenter right now.

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. Mitch Hedberg

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Pinetree

08/21/2018 09:53AM

bmaines: "

Wanted to get a couple gallons going right away. Have another 5 gallon batch hanging out in the fermenter right now. "

All I can say is WOW.

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