It is time to start the October 2019 Photo Contest, as well as, Trip Report 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 "Landscape Photos in Canoe Country".

Monthly Category: Landscape Photos in Canoe Country

Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.

Trip Report Contest: Any trip report published in a month is in the running for winning the prize. See the trip report contest page for more details - Trip Report Home Page

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 (CCS) 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 October 31st. Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.

Thank you for participating!

"Forest on Fire"
Little Crab Lake, BWCA.
Photo taken Sept. 27, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.,
Sony SLT-A57, f/7.1, 1/125", 20mm, ISO 100

We were, perhaps, the last human beings to witness the sun setting on Little Crab Lake as it presently is. The lake is scheduled for a burn this fall, including the far shore pictured here. We were making base camp, and were lucky enough to catch this spectacular sunset followed by a lone-wolf howling later that night.

Mountain Lake overlook

Clearwater Lake Oct2019

From Magnetic Rock Trail on the Gunflint Trail looking west over and area burned by the Ham Lake Fire. Oct 1, 2019

Motorola Moto z4.

Clearwater Palisades

Picture taken the evening of August 5, 2019 from campsite #548 on Missing Link Lake.

Upper Basswood Falls 2018. Won last month, but I love all the pretty pictures. :)

Adams Lake Reflections

Lake One

Pillsbery Lake July 2019

Adams Lake - June 2019

Not grand in scale, but I took this on Cherokee Lake during a sunset. There is so much to soak in in the BWCA so it's easy to want to capture wide angle shots to get everything. This angled pine line and calm water really caught my eye.

Enjoying the view on Ogishkemuncie Lake, June 2019

Caribou Lake, off of Clearwater. In the throes of dawn, beholding this scene, was perhaps one of the most delightful cups of morning coffee I have ever had.

McAree Lake, Quetico, June 2014

~Red Columbine along Pine Creek

"The Storm Before the Storm"

Because some trips just don't want you to take a nice landscape photo.

Thunder Point - Knife Lake - 8/28/2019

Sunrise from the hammock on Bald Eagle 6/18

Little Beartrack Lake

Thompson creek

Shell Lake

Polly

Octopus Lake

Lake Agnes - in May 2019

"Day Trip to Winchell"
Horseshoe Lake
June 2019






Horseshoe and Gaskin were moderately busy, but we had the entire 5-mile length of Winchell to ourselves. Bonus: spotting big lake trout in the shallows by the portage and enjoying lunch by the pretty little falls coming out of Tremble Lake. Gotta love these long, skinny, cliff-lined lakes of the eastern BWCAW.

2016 Watap Palisades. One of my favorite pictures...for a variety of reasons. Cowdoc appears to have a different point of view :)

North Bay
June 6, 2019

Sawbill. September 2013

The winners of the October Contests:

Photo Contest: Collinhawkins
Trip Report Contest: TrailZen
Extra Prize: seamusknives

Wow, awesome! Thanks! It's really cool to be picked from such a great selection of photos this month :)