BWCA Entry Point, Route, and Trip Report Blog
January 07 2025
Entry Point 25 - Moose Lake
Number of Permits per Day: 27
Elevation: 1356 feet
Latitude: 47.9877
Longitude: -91.4997
Labor day weekend 2024.
Entry point was 25-Moose lake. Went north, and then west onto Ensign Lake. Camped on eastern end of Ensign lake. Very busy and lucky to get a campsite. Day 2, went to Cattyman Falls and on down to Disappointment Lake. All sites full. Had to get off the water due to inclement storm. Ended up on Parent Lake on day 3, western camp site. Beautiful site. Exited from Snowbank lake on day 4. Overall fishing was poor. Some small mouth bass on Parent lake.
Nothing elsewhere. Approximately 20 miles of paddling/portaging. 11 portages in total. Already planning for 2025.
Wood Lake Long Weekend
Entry Date:
October 01, 2015
Entry Point:
Wood Lake
Number of Days:
4
Group Size:
5
Day two (Friday) started late after getting to bed at 12am. We got up, made breakfast and ten off on the boats to explore. Fishing was to be an afterthought. I wanted to see what the "preferred" two campsites were like as this one wasn't conducive to our group...only one and a half good pads. I am so glad we moved…more room, better pads, less wind, and easy day trips.
Saturday we decided to check out the third site (but not move) as part of the group had gone over the evening before and wanted to share the view with everyone else. So on the way to portage to Hula we stopped in. The wind was blowing and it wasn’t that nice but it too had more room than the first site. The paddle to the Hula portage is littered with cut logs from the logging days and some are just under the surface. The portage is easy to find (it’s at the far end right of the cut logs piled into a dam) and in very good shape. We took our lunch over and ate at the other end. There is a nice stream at the end and plenty of room for that. On the way back to camp we were fighting the wind most of the way. I happened to see a nice tall cliff off in the distance and even though it was against the wind, I chose to battle it to see what I could see. It was still early in the day and I could just drift back to camp if need be. Well let me tell you I was not disappointed with the view…it was very nice and the picture(s) I took don’t do it justice. We went out later, caught a walleye and cooked him old school on a stick over the fire…it was grand.
Sunday, up and packed, on the water by 11 and after 3-4 trips on the way to the Ely Steakhouse for a Bucky Burger. (One of the members had a Clucky.)
The weather was fantastic every day. We had a slight breeze but the way the campsite was facing we were protected by a big white pine, and the rest of the trees. Wood Lake, Hula Lake 
