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December 2009 Photo Contest

Winner: hikesk8sno

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adam

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12/14/2009 12:25PM

It is time to start the December 2009 Photo Contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Pines".

Monthly Category: Great Pines of Canoe Country

Along with the hat, the winner will also get an award from Wilderness Passages Magazine, created by long time member QPassage. He is giving a free copy of their great magazine and a 2 1/2 hour DVD of Quetico footage to the winner of the photo contest and trip report contest. For more information about Wilderness Passages, you can visit their website at WildernessPassages.com

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.

- 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 message by 11:59pm on Dec. 31st.

- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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dogwoodgirl

12/14/2009 12:51PM

Swan Lake, August 2009

~On to Fort Chipewyan before the snow flies!

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Kiporby

12/14/2009 12:56PM

Emerald Lake Pine, May 2009.

There is a light and it never goes out. Morrissey

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Traveler

12/14/2009 02:09PM

Lake Three.

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nojobro

12/14/2009 03:00PM

Burnt pines, still standing tall. Former campsite island, Turtle Lake, August 2009.

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fishguts

12/14/2009 03:22PM

Ballard Lake Pines, Quetico

fishguts

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spankatolla

12/14/2009 04:35PM

Boulder Bay - June 2009

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hikesk8sno

12/14/2009 05:24PM

Wood Lake Morning with pines as far as the fog will let you see. May 09.

www.prbimages.com

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kanoes

12/14/2009 08:33PM

(missed it by about 6 feet...damnit)

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butthead

12/14/2009 08:51PM

Sylvania May 2007.

butthead

"never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" George Carlin

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starwatcher

12/14/2009 10:01PM

Not eligible; "Campsite on a bed of pine needles in the deep, dark white pine forest

starwatcher

"When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live." Sigurd F. Olson

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dicecupmaker

12/15/2009 08:20AM

September Sawbill solo trip.

Joy is a great teacher, but so is dispair. Wonder is a great teacher, but so is confusion. Hope is a great teacher, but so is disillusionment. And life is a great teacher, but so is death. To deny yourself any of those in any aspect is not experiencing life totally.

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karola

12/15/2009 10:24AM

This is from last years winter camping trip at Gabbro Lake. A fire must have came through here 15-25 years ago?

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croixboy96

12/15/2009 11:53AM

Morgan Lake, last day on the way out. Beautiful Sept weather!

"Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left." - Ty Webb

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HangLoose

12/15/2009 11:59AM

"Perched In The Pine"
Lake Agnes BWCAW

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jwartman59

12/15/2009 12:44PM

skipper lake, dawn

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michellekarol

12/15/2009 01:16PM

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OldGreyGoose

12/15/2009 02:02PM

Russell Lake, Quetico, 2008.

Soloing is sweet, but a good partner is "priceless."

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bdubber

12/15/2009 02:24PM

Nice jwartman!!!

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dogwoodgirl

12/15/2009 03:38PM

Indeed, that's a beauty! Is it enhanced, or is that the way it was? Looks like a magical morning.

~On to Fort Chipewyan before the snow flies!

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ILikePike

12/15/2009 04:03PM

Gabbro August 2009

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” -Edward Abbey

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Journeyman

12/15/2009 04:10PM

Minn lake 09

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jwartman59

12/15/2009 04:18PM

shot with a sony h2 and an extended zoom lens, so 18x magnification. actually a nice (little) camera. little control over white balance. the colors are real. the zoom does distort the perspective, and perhaps over saturates, so in that regards it is not what i actually saw. i am new to this site and unfamiliar with its workings. i also bring a old nikon film camera on my trips. i will upload a photo from that camera for comparisons, it is on my profile photos. thanks for the comments. john wartman

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dzander7

12/15/2009 04:42PM

Taken while waiting out the rain on Gabbro Lake June-09

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rlhedlund

12/15/2009 06:11PM

Seagull, May 2009

Life is Good, Living is Better. Everlasting Life is Best! Pray for Us Amok.

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old town

12/15/2009 08:07PM

Lac Lacroix island red pine blowdown

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snakecharmer

12/15/2009 08:40PM

The living and the dead ~ McIntyre Lake

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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ellroy2

12/15/2009 09:43PM

Sawbill June 2008

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Windschill

12/16/2009 12:18AM

Kodak 4MP. C330 quickdraw magnum caliber with a trioptical saturation focal pointer glideasphere balance controller easyshare memory hemi reloader.

"Now days these kids take out everything: radar, sonar, electric toothbrushs" Quint

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dalet

12/16/2009 05:09AM

Basswood Lake..Lincoln Isl

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satchmoa

12/16/2009 06:57AM

Tall standing pines on Shell lake The tent gives you the idea how tall they really stand.

I would rather be upside down in my canoe than right side up at my desk

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Spartan2

12/16/2009 08:53AM

Amazing shot, snakecharmer! Takes my breath away!

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snakecharmer

12/16/2009 03:55PM

Hey thanks Spartan2! I wish I was there...well, maybe six months from now :)

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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ekffazr

12/16/2009 09:37PM

Oyster Lake Southeast side

Today could be your last chance to be good to yourself

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Boppa

12/16/2009 10:03PM

Right after ice out, thank goodness for the green of the pines.
Boppa

"Yesterday is the past, Tomorrow is the future, Today is a GIFT, that is why it is called the present".

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ChadLeo

12/17/2009 04:25PM

Kawishiwi Lake - June 2009

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moose plums

12/17/2009 05:07PM

Misty Pines~ Oyster Lake

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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Georgiaboy

12/17/2009 06:47PM

Pine roots crawling across a huge rock on Agnes June 09

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balsamea

12/17/2009 06:59PM

Swan Lake, July 2008

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camp-n-scrap

12/17/2009 07:16PM

Sawbill Lake - Sept 2009

THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. - Hunter S. Thompson

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bapabear

12/17/2009 09:18PM

My favorite little pine. Quadga Lake.

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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kirk_j

12/18/2009 10:04AM

June 2001: Overlooking Nina Moose River and Nina Moose Lake in the distance.

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icamp4ever

12/18/2009 10:31AM

Louse River Pines

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mr.barley

12/19/2009 09:38AM

king of the island- Suzanette

serenity now

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Ho Ho

12/19/2009 03:23PM

Tall Norway on the McNeice - Kahshahpiwi Portage

Bonus pic - "Tree Hugger"

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talusman

12/19/2009 04:35PM

Emerald Lake Everything you want a bonsai to be.

He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone; He's a man who won't fit in.

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woodpecker

12/19/2009 04:42PM

Pinetrees Huh? Well this is one of my favorite pine pics taken on Pappose creek a few years ago I believe..

PAUL BUNYAN'S TOOTHPICK

Woodpecker

"The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten."---Sigurd F. Olson (The Singing Wilderness)

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Kendra

12/19/2009 07:13PM

#4 Pine on Loon Lake. We picked this tree as a mascot tree for our paddling group of four.

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bdubber

12/20/2009 02:58PM

Basswood Lake, Westernmost campsite on US Point August, 2008

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Wilderness Paddler

12/20/2009 04:41PM

Snowshoeing Through Pines
Ely, Minnesota

Wilderness Paddler

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mcsweem

12/20/2009 07:24PM

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oldgentleman

12/21/2009 06:22AM

White Pine roots and cones, south shore of Disappointment Lake, September 2009

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Old Hoosier

12/21/2009 11:35AM

Lake One 2005

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gutmon

12/22/2009 06:35AM

Kawishiwi River 2006

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jdevries

12/22/2009 09:35AM

North Kawishiwi River

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mattmilleroutdoors

12/23/2009 02:47PM

Lake Agnes 2008

Melted Drags and Tight Lines!

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Banksiana

12/24/2009 07:15PM

On granite ridge near Slim Lake

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

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Blueshadow

12/25/2009 09:50AM

Looking for thin ice on Lake One

Blueshadow49

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ktoivola

12/25/2009 07:22PM

Me on the top of a white pine, Crooked lake 09

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cowdoc

12/25/2009 08:31PM

Snipe Lake...June 09....Right before the storm

"What could happen?"

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BigZig

12/26/2009 09:57AM

Winter camping - South Brule River Road

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Lemieux

12/26/2009 02:27PM

Campsite on Oyster

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

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mjmkjun

12/27/2009 03:41AM

What a bunch of wonderful submissions. Collectively they bear the magic of the area. The perspectives are across the board and they are all terrific!

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

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Freeleo1

12/27/2009 07:47PM

Some dorkus cut a big hunk out of this huge pine tree, but it seems to be ok so far. Gull Lake 2009

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." Terry Pratchett

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bbloom51

12/29/2009 03:37PM

Hi Adam

here is my photo for the December contest. it was taken during a trip made with two friends out of Moose Lake in September 2009. Best wishes for a Happy New Year!

Bob

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HighPlainsDrifter

12/29/2009 11:58PM

Island River
September 19, 2009

"Boredom, Tyler - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure...(Never Cry Wolf, 1983)

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pictureguy

12/30/2009 11:15AM

Camp on Alder Lake June 2009

Pictureguy

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silverback

12/31/2009 03:37PM

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark too read. Groucho Marx

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520eek

01/03/2010 12:15AM

Does anyone have a pine tree pic that i can borrow?

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it!

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nolahlm

01/03/2010 05:20PM

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adam

Moderator

01/12/2010 07:31PM

The winner of the December photo contest is hikesk8sno! A great bunch of pictures. Thanks everyone for sharing.

The trip report contest winner is papszoo!

The extra hat goes to freeleo1!

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bradcrc

01/16/2010 10:21AM

great pics, hikesk8sno's pic is amazing as the winners always are here.

would be hard to believe these wonderful photos were real if a person didn't know just how beautiful the bwca is.

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Freeleo1

01/22/2010 11:31AM

I'm guessing we won in a random drawing from all entries. I know it wasn't in the same league with all the wonderful pictures entered. I just thought it was a neat tree. I appreciate the chance to see all the great places people have been. Thanks Adam.

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." Terry Pratchett

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