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04/10/2008 10:03PM  
It is time to start the April 2008 Photo contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Moving Water". Post your best photos that from the bwca/quetico region which shows us moving water.

Monthly Category: Moving Water

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 where the picture is from.
- 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 April 30th.

- 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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04/10/2008 10:16PM  
ok...this is normally unseen "moving water". crooked lake. the current in a lake that you normally cant see. it was a stange day, it lasted for about 15 minutes, and the pattern never changed. rather obscure.....but it IS moving water. :)
 
wildernesswebb
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04/10/2008 10:17PM  
My "Better half" took this pic of me in '03 at Rose just off the Stairway portage. WW
 
04/10/2008 10:25PM  

Lower Brewer Rapids, fishguts & son panther martin
 
Kurps
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04/10/2008 10:27PM  


Flowing out of Boze Lake.
 
04/10/2008 10:45PM  
Devils Cascade end of July '07
 
kahle hook
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04/11/2008 12:32AM  
Rebecca Falls 2007
 
thecanoeman
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04/11/2008 06:24AM  
my canoe partner at curtain falls.
 
04/11/2008 08:24AM  
The "flow" at Canyon Falls in the Falls Chain - Quetico
 
04/11/2008 08:31AM  
 
04/11/2008 09:06AM  
Nature's Waterslide - A portage between one of the numbered lakes- aug 13th '06
 
Journeyman
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04/11/2008 09:08AM  
Near Sark Lake, Quetico
 
mwd1976
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04/11/2008 09:18AM  
Great pic Kurps!
 
mwd1976
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04/11/2008 09:25AM  
Here's mine, a close up on the N Kawishiwi.

 
greenydd
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04/11/2008 09:25AM  
curtain falls
 
mr.barley
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04/11/2008 10:29AM  
I'm not positive, but I think there's water moving here.
 
04/11/2008 11:12AM  
Kawishiwi river rapids between Insula, and Alice.
 
stillcanmake8guy
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04/11/2008 11:19AM  
Insula to Alice

 
canoerone
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04/11/2008 12:09PM  
Small falls on the Little Indian Sioux.
 
04/11/2008 12:10PM  
The Big Rock in the river between Koma and Malberg - June 2007
 
04/11/2008 12:37PM  
Mr. Barley, I think what you are hearing is pus dripping from the drain site.
 
04/11/2008 01:32PM  
Conk Lake Spillway, Quetico
 
Arkansas Man
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04/11/2008 01:38PM  
Cattyman Falls... One of my favorites


Bruce
 
04/11/2008 01:48PM  


Vernon Lake - July of 2006
 
04/11/2008 02:49PM  



 
stevedug
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04/11/2008 03:06PM  


Dusk in the Basswood Falls area.
 
Portage Monkey
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04/11/2008 04:16PM  
Another one of Cattyman Falls...As Bruce said "One of my favorites".
 
04/11/2008 04:57PM  
Unnamed stream along a portage.

 
trailcherry
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04/11/2008 04:58PM  
From Gillis to Crooked.
 
04/11/2008 05:55PM  
"The Shire" - BWCA Spring 2007

 
04/11/2008 06:42PM  
Jasper Falls - BWCA 2005
 
Jackfish
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04/11/2008 07:01PM  
Rebecca Falls - Quetico Provincial Park - September 2007
 
04/11/2008 07:23PM  
Fourtown Lake at Boot Lake portage Sept. 2007.
 
Merganser
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04/11/2008 07:54PM  
A little stream flowing from Kivaniva to the Kawishiwi River. June 2007
 
mr.barley
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04/11/2008 07:56PM  
Fantastic shot Snakecharmer! I think I may have been to "The Shire" in my day.
 
04/12/2008 10:53AM  
I thought everyone would be posting pictures of Lower Basswood Falls, but I'm the first! And we were some of the first ones (maybe the very first) there in 2006 too - this picture is from April 30.

 
04/12/2008 11:13AM  
August 2005--Water bomber moving water from Seagull to the shore of Red Rock.
 
quetico152
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04/12/2008 11:19AM  

"Reflection" on Tanner Lake, Aug. 2006, and the water does move there since its linked to the Maligne River.
 
PaddleAway
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04/12/2008 11:58AM  
Phoebe River, May 2006
 
Scrubb
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04/12/2008 11:59AM  
Not entirely sure where this is...
 
cericdahl
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04/12/2008 12:02PM  
Hanson Lake to South Arm Knife. A rainy morning, and everything was greeeeeeeeen
 
InTents Camper
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04/12/2008 01:47PM  
High Falls, Baptism River- Tettegouche State Park
 
bdscore
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04/12/2008 02:08PM  
My boys and Brother in Law - Summer `07. Guess Where?
 
HighPlainsDrifter
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04/12/2008 02:41PM  

West of the 40r portage, Kawishiwi River (North of Malberg Lake), September 12, 2007
 
nkelly
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04/12/2008 09:56PM  
Johnson Falls
 
04/13/2008 12:09AM  
Very nice everyone. Some beautiful pictures here.
 
VoyageurNorth
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04/13/2008 03:30AM  
September of 2006, the Horse River was a mere trickle & this is what Basswood Falls, just above the river, looked like!

 
04/13/2008 04:15AM  
outstanding pics gang-kurps bravo, nkelly WOW! very jealous guys!

adam have you thought of making a calendar at the year end with the winners pics? not sure if this would be profitable/help support the site? maybe this isn't the spot for this though.

tg
 
greenydd
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04/13/2008 05:37AM  
in tents camper. oh i love that pic with the little on in it! excellent shot.
 
04/13/2008 07:16AM  
This a from a day hike into the Bass Lake area. Photobucket
 
04/13/2008 08:50AM  
Sorry about the size of the pic. Adam you can do any modifictions to it that you want or even delete it.
 
04/13/2008 09:36AM  
In Tents Camper, where was this shot?
 
04/13/2008 05:47PM  
Kawishiwi River. Somewhere below the Lake One landing.
 
04/13/2008 08:20PM  
Hey CowDoc,

I think this is another view of that same moving water from the portage side.



 
cowboymac12
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04/14/2008 12:24PM  
Little Rock Falls, May 2004.
 
04/14/2008 01:09PM  
Wheelbarrow Falls June 2003 - seven day trip, entry at Nina Moose River, exited Mudro Lake
 
04/14/2008 01:23PM  
This was the Moose River during late September 2007.

 
04/14/2008 01:24PM  


Louisia Falls July 07

Courtesy of Kurt Thompson
 
04/14/2008 01:27PM  
TomT

Sorry, I'm not In Tents Camper, but since you haven't received a reply I thought I would. It looks like the high falls on the Baptism River (Tettegouche state park). I have a somewhat similar shot minus the little one.
 
InTents Camper
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04/14/2008 02:39PM  
Tom T, Lightfoot is right!

High Falls, Baptism River. Great Spot!
 
woodpecker
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04/14/2008 07:43PM  
moving water.... (from one lake to another via the personal filter...)

Woodpecker
 
04/15/2008 08:02AM  
We have a lot of comedians this month! I love it. very creative guys!
 
04/15/2008 10:31AM  
another one for the CowDoc/Uncle Moose series.

 
04/15/2008 01:54PM  
LOL! Is that a stuffed animal in there "going with the flow"?

 
quetico152
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04/15/2008 03:57PM  
I think it looks more like someone's young kid...
 
MapleGroveEyes
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04/15/2008 04:00PM  
It totally looks like a stuffed animal! LOL!
 
mr.barley
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04/15/2008 05:01PM  
I think it's Mr. Bill
 
04/15/2008 08:24PM  
"Oh, No!"
 
04/16/2008 09:15AM  
It's Winnie The Pooh. He was my partner on that trip as well as many others. Not much of a trip partner, he refuses to carry anything on the portages and can't paddle worth a darn.

Here he is enjoying his morning coffee.

 
quetico152
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04/16/2008 09:34AM  
OK..... i guess i was wrong...
 
Canoe Dude
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04/17/2008 12:48AM  
this looks like the same place as bdscore's pic. Curtain Falls, the Crooked lake side of the iron-crooked portage.
 
04/17/2008 12:58AM  
Here's a photo of moving water during the fires of '06. Kinda of scary when you paddle up to a closed portage, with the smell of smoke in the air....
 
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04/18/2008 09:10AM  
Lake Four
 
starwatcher
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04/18/2008 08:41PM  

jdevries,

At least you didn't bring Eoyore. He would have complained the entire trip. LOL!

Here's my entry:
the tranquil, slow moving Nina Moose River on a warm October day.

(snakecharmer's shire is beautiful!)

starwatcher
 
wetcanoedog
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04/18/2008 08:52PM  

in 2006 the rapids at Chatterton Falls--in the Q--were running
very low.what had been a bank to bank run of big water on our
last trip was now several channels of very fast water and wide
open areas of dry river bed.we were able to walk around and get
some great shots of bore holes in the bedrock and several small
waterfalls.some of the small ones were knee high and others
a film of water running over a smooth rock face..there was still
alot of water running down river making standing waves and
flumes like this one--
 
04/19/2008 12:53PM  


The journey begins...Magnetic Lake entry point, Pine River.
 
04/20/2008 07:20PM  
I like your photo Grandma L!
 
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04/20/2008 08:08PM  


Look carefully, this was this canoes last voyage.
 
knothead180
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04/20/2008 09:03PM  
I don't have a BW/Q photo appropriate for this month's contest, but thought I'd share this. Frank's Falls is in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park in eastern Ontario, about one hundred miles north of North Bay, Ont.
Frank's Falls
 
johanismyvzual57
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04/20/2008 09:59PM  


At the top of Eddy Falls.
 
cowboymac12
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04/21/2008 11:30AM  
BWKayak,

Is that the south end of Magnetic, coming directly out of Gunflint? Never seen the water so low; normally those rocks are well below the waterline.

Or is that the little riffle just above Little Rock Falls?

 
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04/21/2008 01:19PM  
Sue Falls
 
04/21/2008 09:40PM  
CowboyMac12,

It's the little riffle just above Little Rock Falls, August of '05.

bwk
 
PolishPaddler
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04/22/2008 03:22PM  
The portage from Skipper to Rush

June of 2007
 
PolishPaddler
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04/22/2008 03:48PM  
 
VoyageurNorth
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04/22/2008 04:55PM  
Beemer, that shot of the canoe stuck in the rapids reminds me of the famous "Mike from Chicago" who ran one of our Kevlar solo canoes (Prism) down 4 waterfalls & then got caught in the 5th one.

Part of his story was included in a story in the BWJ a few years ago.
 
cowboymac12
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04/22/2008 04:59PM  
Care to provide a link or a reiteration of that story? I'd love to read about it. Maybe a new thread from outfitters and paddlers who have stories of smashed canoes and bad decisions. Love to see that thread.
 
starwatcher
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04/23/2008 05:07PM  
I've already entered, but I had to add this photo. I think there was as much moving water on the portage as there was in the creek; but I bet others have had similar experiences

starwatcher
 
cowboymac12
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04/23/2008 05:14PM  
You mean like this?
 
wildernesswebb
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04/23/2008 06:08PM  
Lots of nice pics, but that Moose River pic of Lightfoot's is one I'd hang on the wall! WW
 
04/24/2008 12:57PM  
Thank you wildernesswebb, I'm glad you like it. That was one of those perfect September days; blue sky, very light breeze, and paddling in the BWCA.

Last September the Moose River was higher than we've ever seen it. Places where we could walk across it in years past were ragging like it was in that shot. Made the trip out, back up the river, a little tough in spots.
 
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04/24/2008 01:54PM  
Horses at lower basswood
 
bobbyb
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04/25/2008 11:57AM  
Help me out here. Does anybody else see any horses in this picture?? I sure don't.
 
cowboymac12
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04/25/2008 12:06PM  
Ghostriders in the sky. Can't you see them?

"On horses snorting fire
As they ride on hear their cry
Yip-pie-yi-o!"

Must be near the Horse Portage, though I've never been.
 
04/25/2008 12:36PM  
"Help me out here. Does anybody else see any horses in this picture?? I sure don't."

Didn't you see Lord of the Rings? This must be a little further down stream.
 
04/25/2008 01:29PM  
Some very nice photos here.

I took this one just outside of the BWCA so it doesn't count in the contest, but it's a good photo of Devil's Kettle Falls on the Brule River in Superior National Forest.
 
fraxinus
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04/25/2008 04:39PM  
Regarding horses. Sig Olson called the mist that rises and clings to the lakes on calm mornings White Horses. With an ever so slight breeze the mist rolls slowly just above the water and kind of rolls gently. Some of my favorite BW memories are of sipping coffee on a clear morning and watching the White Horses roll by.
 
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04/25/2008 05:44PM  
Taken June 16, on our way out of Mudrow.
 
palmcanoe
  
04/26/2008 04:44PM  
Sliding by some Water Lillies on Snowbank lake.
 
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04/26/2008 05:08PM  


Between Carp Lake and Sheridan Lake, Quetico

Chuck

CIIcanoe.com
 
greenydd
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04/26/2008 10:19PM  
beemer01.....would like to know the story behind the canoe in the rapids. is it in a trip report somewhere?
 
04/27/2008 01:24PM  
 
Beemer01
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04/27/2008 03:23PM  
Second entry - just for fun

High Falls

 
fordcraw
  
04/29/2008 06:55PM  
A fun day enjoying a break from paddling at a portage around these rapids on Confusion Lake and Kawishiwi river trip. Josh jumps into rapids
 
VoyageurNorth
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04/29/2008 08:25PM  
Maybe I can find the old BWJ that had the story in it about the couple who ran across "Mike from Chicago".

Or maybe I'll just ask Stu Ostoff! :-)
 
04/29/2008 08:29PM  
Little waterfall at the end of the Ge-be-on-e-quet portage.
 
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04/29/2008 08:47PM  
Nice shot Spartan2!!

starwatcher
 
04/29/2008 09:07PM  
That is a nice shot Spartan2! I hope like me, you're looking forward to heading up north soon. :-)
 
04/29/2008 09:12PM  
Just around the riverbend. Moose River 2007.

 
Schultzin
  
04/29/2008 09:44PM  
This is my first time looking at the pictures for the photo contest, and I am amazed at a lot of these pictures. Most of these pictures should be hanging on my wall. Great job everyone, and keep up the good work.
 
potto2001
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04/30/2008 12:02AM  
I love the canoes last voyage and the shire!
 
04/30/2008 10:55AM  
Spartan2...That photo rocks!!!! Nice
 
04/30/2008 02:24PM  
Thank you. And yes, HoHo, one month + three weeks. I am starting to make my lists! :-)
 
04/30/2008 02:44PM  
Ice should be out by then! We're heading up on Friday for a week. Still hoping to find SOMEWHERE to paddle. :-)
 
NorthWoodsDreamer
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04/30/2008 06:51PM  
The Bottle - May 2005
 
zimrl
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05/01/2008 11:34PM  
 
BWCA
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05/12/2008 12:15PM  

There is a special announcement for the April Contests. Wilderness Passages Magazine, created by long time member QPassage, is giving a free copy of their great magazine and a 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

The winner will also receive a hat.

The winner of the April Photo contest is NKelly. The trip report contest winner is Boppa. Congratulations to the winners! And thank you to everyone for entering.

The extra hat giveaway goes to cowboymac12. Winning Photo Titled Johnson Falls:
Johnson Falls
 
jenrobsdad
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05/12/2008 07:25PM  
I know it's May, but I wanted to add this. Picture is of the rapids between Nina-Moose Lake and Lake Agnes.
 
05/12/2008 09:43PM  
I like the sticky topics. Here's another suggestion - when you announce the winner of the month's photo contest, why not include the winning photo in your post? When there are this many (great) entries, it can be hard to find the winner by scrolling and looking for the winner's name. Just a thought . . .
 
Bearman
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05/13/2008 02:02AM  
You can also hit ctrl-f to find by a word/name search in a thread.
 
05/14/2008 12:08AM  
Congrats NKelly!! Great picture.
 
05/14/2008 04:38AM  
Thanks Bearman. That is a neat trick.
 
VoyageurNorth
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05/14/2008 04:44AM  
wow, I use that for my databases, didn't know it worked on IE too!

So KEWL!
 
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