Section hiking the Superior Hiking Trail, the other (SHT), and have just 54 miles to go. Such satisfaction driving up the north shore knowing I've hiked from Hartley Nature Center in Duluth to Grand Marais!

Anyone else Hike That SHT??

Once complete, I'm SUPER pumped to try a BWCA trail... I'm used to blazes, so wilderness hiking will be new. Any recommendations of what trail to start with?

For the BWCA get a good dog and follow it.

Congratulations! Quite an accomplishment and the SHT is such a nice trail. I still need to get out and hike the section between Duluth and Two Harbors as well as the section north of Grand Marais, so you're well ahead of me.

As for where to start in the BWCA, why not just continue on where the SHT ends and hike the Border Route Trail. It's a fun trail that I found easy to follow. Shuttles are pretty painless too.

On the other hand, if you want a trail where you don't need a shuttle the Sioux-Hustler is hard to beat.

That's awesome, good job! I've done the northernmost 106 miles of the SHT, looking to do the rest some time later this summer. Since the southern half is closer to civilization I'm thinking it's best to wait until all the cooped-up demand dies off a bit and it returns to more normal levels.

Once you're done with the SHT you should do the BWCA segments of the NCT as well. The Kek is quite easy to follow, and I've heard the BRT is also pretty straightforward. Both are *much* wilder than the SHT, however.

I have this vision of backpacking from Ely to Grand Marais, town center to town center, by walking the Fernberg Road to the start of the Kek, then doing the Kek, BRT, and northern SHT until I walk into Grand Marais. The more I look at it the longer I think it will take though - maybe 12 days? And that's a lot of time to get off work.

Personally I think the best place to first try BWCA hiking though is the Angleworm Trail. It's short and can be done comfortably in two days with one night overnight (shoot for the Whisky Jack Lake site, it's beautiful), but it's a surprisingly challenging hike that gives you a good sense of what trails in the BWCA are like.

I also was thinking Angleworm Trail.

I absolutely see the progression from the 270 degree overlook and continuing on the BRT to the Kek, but then I've heard from so many that GPS is required on the BRT, and its easy to get lost esp around the Gunflint XC trail system?

Maybe I just have to try it...

I started out hiking with a CCS Rucksack and it was fine, but am now hiking with an internal frame Deuter, and what a difference!

I think I'm willing to try anything but the Pow-Wow trial.

Come with BWAC on a Pow Wow Trail clearing trip - you can learn from people who know the trail really well, and give back to the hiking community at the same time.

I've hiked many sections of the SHT, it is only 1/2 hiking miles from my Duluth place.
When I ran the fire engine out of Isabella I would take the fire crew to the trail off Cty 6 by Finland and we would hike it for PT.

When my girlfriend/now wife and I started dating we hiked in one night and dispersed camped on state land. We hiked north of the parking lot off cty 6/Finland area. We went up a few miles with our two large dogs. I figured there would be no water up there for us and the dogs so I packed in nearly two gallons.
We got off trail into this high rocky area and set up camp, what did the dogs quickly find? A huge clean puddle of water that was trapped in the rocks.

A fun hike is up the river bed of the Kudunce River by Grand Marais.

TominMpls: "Come with BWAC on a Pow Wow Trail clearing trip - you can learn from people who know the trail really well, and give back to the hiking community at the same time."

Dates???

I think my progression will be:

Angleworm
SHT (Sioux Hustler Trail)
BRT
Kek
Snowbank + Disappointment loop

maybe a pow-wow restorative trip with others???

Also really want to do the Isle Royale. I hear they're closed for the 2020 season??

Super excited to hike these trails.

MN_Lindsey: "

TominMpls: "Come with BWAC on a Pow Wow Trail clearing trip - you can learn from people who know the trail really well, and give back to the hiking community at the same time."

Dates???"

I think BWAC is setting the fall trip dates tomorrow night, I'll post when they're set. Typically the first fall trip is around Labor Day, and last year I led the last fall trip in late October. I love those late October trips, though the work day is necessarily a lot shorter.

And yes, Isle Royale is closed this year.

TominMpls: "And yes, Isle Royale is closed this year. "

Isle Royale is open (except for the Minong Trail) but the ferries aren’t running so visitors need to take the seaplane or private boat.