BWCA Entry Point, Route, and Trip Report Blog
July 08 2025
Entry Point 62 - Clearwater Lake
Number of Permits per Day: 2
Elevation: 1673 feet
Latitude: 48.0702
Longitude: -90.3752
Clearwater Lake - 62
scouting Daniels
Entry Date:
August 29, 2014
Entry Point:
Daniels Lake
Number of Days:
2
Group Size:
1
I take another half day at work and once again start at three am to get out as day shift is coming in. My friend and co-worker Julie is bringing Claire in and when she gets to work she tries to leave her in my car this time. I beep my car doors open and we chat a bit as she begins her shift and I finish mine. When I get out and begin heading down the road I realize why she didn't bring her in the building this time. Apparently, she was out all night and man she was she smelly. She loves to do the stink roll when she can. The next three hours I have the car well vented and the widows down as much as I can. Finally, I reach Finland and the Maple Grove bait shop to pick up my permit for the following day then it's off to the cabin to get Claire a bath.
Today we would begin our trip back towards Fall Lake and #24.....After packing the gear we had a breakfast of bacon and eggs with cheese in flour tortillas....Breakfast Burritos... and coffee.
We were off by 8:00 AM and heading back down the Basswood River..and once again to that long mile portage.....it was again, hot but not as bad as on our way up.....the thing that really tired us today was the wind on Basswood Lake. We had to paddle into 1 1/2 ft whitecaps for an hour or better until we could turn the corner into Pipestone Bay and find a camp site for the night...
We set up camp and fixed some rice and foil pouch chicken which really hit the spot, and had a brownie for a topper.. Watched the sunset and listened to the people across the lake...til dark..Sleep came fast to our wind beaten bodies...