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SamanthaLauryl

07/23/2020 01:40PM

Am planning a tattoo in a couple months based off a picture I took on our BWCA trip earlier this month.

Anyone else have BWCA ink? Let's see it!

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schwartyman

07/23/2020 02:31PM

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mirth

07/23/2020 03:56PM

Mitch, aka DiceCupMaker (RIP) had the site's logo tattooed on an arm. That's dedication.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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cyclones30

07/23/2020 05:59PM

Care to share the picture you're using as reference? I don't have any but have a few friends with some including a cool pine forest upper arm one

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shock

07/24/2020 02:39PM

not BW related but fishing related ,

keep your line wet, good things will happen

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Nigal

07/24/2020 06:18PM

I wouldn’t mind a tatt of this.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -Bilbo Baggins

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acanoer

07/25/2020 09:27AM

I have enough scars to remind me of things.

Let alone to have someone poke needles into me.

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MikeinMpls

07/26/2020 07:56PM

This is not the greatest pic, a bit blurry. But there is a little canoer portaging in this tat, though he might be hard to make out. I got this in NYC in 1994 before tattooing was legalized following a big hepatitis problem in the 70s...I'm such a rebel. The canoer was taken from a picture in Cache Lake Country, my favorite book about the northland.

Mike

I did indeed rock down to Electric Avenue, but I did not take it higher. I regret that.

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BearBurrito

07/28/2020 04:59PM

acanoer: "I have enough scars to remind me of things.

Let alone to have someone poke needles into me."

I agree, no tattoos for me.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning

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deerfoot

07/28/2020 06:23PM

I was in the navy over 50 yrs ago and I still remember many guys who got tattoos and soon after regretted it. Maybe that is why the VA pioneered the use of lasers for tattoo removal (so I heard). No tattoos for me.

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RRHD

07/30/2020 08:05AM

My daughter is planning a tattoo of a very thin compass arrow with an N for north along her forearm, with a canoe below and a paddle above the compass line. She’s been drawing it on her arm after she showers for months now, waiting for tattoo places to feel safe again.

I’ll probably get something related eventually, but the right design hasn’t come to me yet.

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ibeentired

07/30/2020 08:45AM

Not BWCA related, but outdoorsy/personal. After years of talking about a tattoo, I finally got one after my mom passed away unexpectedly – lavender and pine are just two things that make me think of her.

I'd like to do an Osprey next, representing fishing and the outdoors as well.

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PaddlingWithDog

07/30/2020 03:51PM

ibeentired: "
Not BWCA related, but outdoorsy/personal. After years of talking about a tattoo, I finally got one after my mom passed away unexpectedly – lavender and pine are just two things that make me think of her.

I'd like to do an Osprey next, representing fishing and the outdoors as well."

Okay, that tattoo is just gorgeous.

There is no way anyone could regret that!

Even when I'm hating this, I absolutely love it!

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OldManInTree

08/25/2020 12:04AM

Bluebird feather, mallard feather, fav. Loon feather. Pine trees are from west pope lake.

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Prospector14

10/19/2020 08:43AM

I just got this one

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airmorse

10/19/2020 10:10AM

Prospector14: "

I just got this one"

Nice. I like!

"In wilderness is the salvation of mankind." Thoreau.

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Jackfish

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10/19/2020 10:53AM

As one who has no tattoos, I'm curious of the cost of a tattoo like the ones shown above. Certainly don't feel obligated, but would anyone care to share what theirs cost?

"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir

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MikeinMpls

10/19/2020 03:58PM

Jackfish: "As one who has no tattoos, I'm curious of the cost of a tattoo like the ones shown above. Certainly don't feel obligated, but would anyone care to share what theirs cost?"

I think mine was $50, mid-90s, in New York City.

Mike

I did indeed rock down to Electric Avenue, but I did not take it higher. I regret that.

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MikeinMpls

10/19/2020 03:59PM

Jackfish: "As one who has no tattoos, I'm curious of the cost of a tattoo like the ones shown above. Certainly don't feel obligated, but would anyone care to share what theirs cost?"

I'll lend you the money for a real boss tat, Pete. You should do it. All the cool kids are.

Mike

I did indeed rock down to Electric Avenue, but I did not take it higher. I regret that.

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Jackfish

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10/19/2020 07:08PM

MikeinMpls: "
Jackfish: "As one who has no tattoos, I'm curious of the cost of a tattoo like the ones shown above. Certainly don't feel obligated, but would anyone care to share what theirs cost?"

I'll lend you the money for a real boss tat, Pete. You should do it. All the cool kids are.

Mike"

Mike, nary a tat will grace my body. Not that I don't think the occasional tattoo looks cool. It's just not my deal. I have four kids - two girls and two boys. My two beautiful daughters are the ones with tats. Thankfully, from this Dad's perspective, neither has anything large or ostentatious.

"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir

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dogwoodgirl

10/19/2020 08:51PM

Got this with my daughter on my 60th birthday

~On to Fort Chipewyan before the snow flies!

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JimmyJustice

10/19/2020 09:01PM

Prospector, sweat ink. Did you get that ink to commemorate your recent completion of the KW Challenge?

Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" and the warrior whispers back "I am the storm". Unknown.

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Prospector14

10/20/2020 07:08AM

JimmyJustice: "Prospector, sweat ink. Did you get that ink to commemorate your recent completion of the KW Challenge? "

Sure did, note the paddle. I already signed on for next year, too.

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nofish

10/20/2020 08:28AM

Prospector14: "

I just got this one"

Love the artwork. Probably my favorite BWCA related tattoo that I've seen.

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JimmyJustice

10/20/2020 09:16AM

You earned that red paddle for sure.

Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" and the warrior whispers back "I am the storm". Unknown.

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K52

10/20/2020 09:31AM

deerfoot: "I was in the navy over 50 yrs ago and I still remember many guys who got tattoos and soon after regretted it. Maybe that is why the VA pioneered the use of lasers for tattoo removal (so I heard). No tattoos for me."

Dad was in the Navy through three wars and never felt the need for one. My uncle had a small one on his bicep with a ladies name and a heart and it wasn't aunt Mary's name either. That was brought up more than a few times.

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Flashback

10/20/2020 12:05PM

I considered getting a full forehead scene of a group voyageurs in a birch bark canoe, running a shallow rapid.................
Then I thought, "Nah, I ain't that stupid".

I have no concern whatsoever with an adult getting whatever tattoo & as many tattoos as they want. Personally, I have zero interest; just not my thing, voyageur tattoo was a jest............

BOB