It is time to start the July 2016 Photo Contest.

First an important note. If you see that you have won the contest or a prize in the contest, please email your address and choice of hat, shirt, or bandanna to me.

The theme for this month's contest is "Group Photos".

Monthly Category: Pictures of Your Group in Canoe Country

Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.

Winner will receive an additional prize of leather work from Dicecupmaker with the bwca.com flying moose on it. Thank you Dicecupmaker!

Thanks to Cooke Custom Sewing (CSS) for sponsoring 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 in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the rights 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 which 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 July 31st - Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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A cold, wet, windy, rainy, exit day from our 2015 May trip....Kawishiwi Lake. My 3 kids and a friend of my sons.

My son and I on Kawasachong ~ pre fire

Fairy, September '15

Gillis Lake - Myself, Tony and nctry. May 2014

My daughter and I embarking from East Bearskin on her first trip - Labor Day Weekend 2015

The 4 Hoarsemen. Pickerel Lake Dam. June, 2014

quote Zulu: "






Gillis Lake - Myself, Tony and nctry. May 2014"

Love that campsite.

1996 - lunch on the beach- north shore of Nina Moose

Lots of UNO fun on Quadga lake.

June 2012

Waiting for the tow down Moose after a trip to Knife/Vera/Ensign.

My first trip, 2014, with 8 of my best friends ever!

And just for fun (not for entry):



Grandpa Tom Hall with a group of students on top of ?Ester Mountain?, mid 1970s.

"The Agawak Girls" suburban girls in the woods! A group I guided a couple years ago

Somewhere of the Moose River North 2014 ,May.

Kids! LIS entry point. Aug 2014

Ahhhh, Nature!

Brule lake with my husband, niece and her husband. Last week in May, first week of June. Perfect night to set up the camera for this shot.

After 2014 Quetico loop, boy did it rain!Ely Steakhouse

The Farwell,MN group back in the late 90's. The boyz trip after a Sawbill loop in 2013.

seagull landing , at the end of an awesome trip into the SAK.

Three dads and three sons - the boys' first trip to Quetico (2003).

Campfire and Sunset over Gillis Lake on July 1, 2016.

My crew, Knife Lake 2015

July 2016, Seagull Lake.
My wife, two kids and my grandfather.

June 2013 - My son, his grandpa, and cousin enjoy lunch and the view at Curtain Falls

Quite a Crew!

quote canoerone: "Quite a Crew! "

Sorry your friend has no arms.

The Damm family on a day trip, I think we paddled into Canada this day. Kids love the canoe.

2016 Trip via LIS to Shell and Lynx. Scouts first trip to BWCA. Celebrating with a bit of sparkling juice. (not technically in canoe country)

Caribou Rock Trail at the West Bearskin overlook. Oct. 2013

The crew at our site on Brule Lake.

Crew of 2. end of 18 day trip from Beaverhouse lake, Quetico, to Gunflint lake. stormed the beach at 7am. we were ready to repack and head back out. one of our best trips ever.

Sunset behind us on Brandt Lake 2010.

Bill, Myself, Eric.

This was taken on our Women's may trip a few years ago. - Lake Three-island site

Quadga Lake, July 2016.

Creek between North Bay and Anchor Lake in Quetico, Aug. 2015. My brother and his boys getting down and dirty.

Moose Lake, July 2013.
The 4 of us NOT so ready to head for home.

Taken at the end of our last portage from Disappointment to Snowbank, July 2015...my three sons (do I hear a TV show theme song?) Doug, Andy, and Ty, my daughter-in-law Rebecca, and my middle son Doug's brother-from-another-mother, Johnathon.
Johnathon died unexpectedly at age 30 about a month ago. He was going to come with us again this year. Instead, we're bringing some of his ashes with us.

quote mcspin50: "Taken at the end of our last portage from Disappointment to Snowbank, July 2015...my three sons (do I hear a TV show theme song?) Doug, Andy, and Ty, my daughter-in-law Rebecca, and my middle son Doug's brother-from-another-mother, Johnathon.
Johnathon died unexpectedly at age 30 about a month ago. He was going to come with us again this year. Instead, we're bringing some of his ashes with us. "

Sorry for your loss.

quote mcspin50: "Taken at the end of our last portage from Disappointment to Snowbank, July 2015...my three sons (do I hear a TV show theme song?) Doug, Andy, and Ty, my daughter-in-law Rebecca, and my middle son Doug's brother-from-another-mother, Johnathon.
Johnathon died unexpectedly at age 30 about a month ago. He was going to come with us again this year. Instead, we're bringing some of his ashes with us. "

Sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss."

Thanks, airmorse. It'll be a bittersweet trip.

the 2015 crew on Burntside lake some smoke in the sky from Canadian wildfires.

Boulder Bay, LLC 6/11/15 Reunion Trip.

York, ME, Lake Placid, NY, Sidney, MT, and Minnetonka, MN back together again!

Clearwater Lake 8/14/11

Two Newbies entering the BWCA for the first time, via Fall Lake. September 2015.

On Frost Lake June 2015

quote Darcyn: "On Frost Lake June 2015 "

THAT is a cool photo!!

Curtain Falls, July 2010

Canoe Lake campsite 701-after the portage from Pine.

Great month of photos!

The photo contest winner goes to paddlefamily and trip report contest winner is bwcahuggy!

The extra prize goes to Daunier.