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Portage99

11/12/2020 05:29PM

A lot of you seem to know each other in "real life". I don't know many of you. The ones I do...well...ruffians, the lot.

Anyway, I thought it was really fun seeing who people really are (in the November Selfie photo contest) instead of just their screen name.

Anyone care to share non-contest-worthy or non-selfie photos of yourself doing something in the BW?

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TuscaroraBorealis

11/12/2020 06:43PM

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cyclones30

11/12/2020 08:57PM

Not in the BW, but fishing a local Mississippi R. backwater here in 2020

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airmorse

11/12/2020 08:57PM

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

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JWilder

11/12/2020 09:08PM

The one photo I have taken of myself while paddling. Normally solo.

Oops. Although this is a selfie. I assure you, it is not contest-worthy!!

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missmolly

11/12/2020 09:11PM

I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.

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30Smoke

11/12/2020 09:25PM

My cousin & me - one of us has good fashion sense! Picture at Snowbank EP - ready for adventure.

"it is tough to beat a person who doesn't quit" - famous philosopher George Ruth

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jwartman59

11/13/2020 02:12AM

None of that snowflake Kevlar for me. I’ll carry this Canadian canvas canoe until it kills me

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TrailZen

11/13/2020 07:02AM

A few years back in Quetico...

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb

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Portage99

11/13/2020 07:28AM

This is great! Thanks for sharing everyone.

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johndku

11/13/2020 07:45AM

I'm the handsome one in the middle.

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Spartan2

11/13/2020 09:36AM

This year we traveled to the canoe country and stayed in tiny little cabin #5 at Rockwood Lodge. 15 x 15 feet, 1926 log cabin. Lots of togetherness for a week. We canoed and hiked and had campfires outdoors, and in the evenings we played games in the cabin or read our books. So these photos are from our 2020 "adventure".

Spartan2 and Spartan1

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Savage Voyageur

11/13/2020 10:01AM

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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TuscaroraBorealis

11/13/2020 10:06AM

airmorse: " "

You look so familiar. Have we met?

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mmrocker13

11/13/2020 10:13AM

On our "home away from home" on Crooked. (We've spent more than a month of days total there in the last few years.)

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

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Big Tent

11/13/2020 10:52AM

I’m the old one on the left.

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Blatz

11/13/2020 11:27AM

Overlooking Rose. That's me on the left.

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awbrown

11/13/2020 11:33AM

A couple of years ago along the Gunflint Trail.

I set a goal of losing 10 lbs. this year. I only have 15 left to lose.

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Frenchy

11/13/2020 11:56AM

Deb and me hiking at Jay Cooke in October, 2020.

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LindenTree

11/13/2020 12:48PM

May the rivers be crooked and winding, and your portages lonesome, leading to the most amazing view.

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thebotanyguy

11/13/2020 02:07PM

Not in the BWCA, but within spitting distance:

and another:

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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blutofish1

11/13/2020 02:16PM

Mr. and Mrs blutofish

blutofish

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Portage99

11/13/2020 02:44PM

airmorse: " "

I'll see your shadow and raise you a shadow!

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GopherAdventure

11/13/2020 02:51PM

Here’s a few from the last 7 or 8 years. Tony

Tony

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Portage99

11/13/2020 03:00PM

LindenTree: " "

Nice moose breaking technique!

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Jackfish

Moderator

11/13/2020 03:07PM

These are great pics. Make sure you enter them in the November photo contest.

"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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MHS67

11/13/2020 03:17PM

Dinner on Brule.

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Zulu

11/13/2020 03:54PM

October 2020 - Crystal River in Marble, Colorado.

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RedLakePaddler

11/13/2020 03:55PM

Morning Coffee Lake One

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mjmkjun

11/13/2020 04:37PM

RedLakePaddler: "
Morning Coffee Lake One"

Nice! We all know a few moments of sipping coffee and gazing at some lake.

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

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RetiredDave

11/13/2020 07:34PM

September, 2020 Horseshoe Lake. My neck looks just like my dad's when he was old! Yikes!

Dave

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Castaway

11/13/2020 09:41PM

At the campsite on the Canadian side of LBF, the last evening of my first ever BWCA/Quetico trip.

I was 53 and the paddling and portaging was the most physically exhausting work I had ever undertaken, resulting in a 10 pound weight loss in less than a week.

I was shivering, my hair matted down after 6 days of minimal bathing and having traveled all day in the wind and rain with temperature in the 40s but which felt even colder after following a week in the upper 80s.

And yet, as the smile on my face reveals, I felt a giddiness and immense joy for what I had just experienced. I was hooked.

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giddyup

11/13/2020 10:56PM

Not taken in the BW but canoeing related, just finished paddling 340 miles on the Missouri River. This picture was taken stepping out of the canoe in Saint Charles, Missouri August 2020 after competing in the MR 340, finishing in 73 hours.

"Adversity makes for a better adventure."

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RunningFox

11/14/2020 05:13AM

Bittersweet lakes in WI. The bitter part being the size of the fish. Or lack thereof.

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KarlBAndersen1

11/14/2020 07:00AM

Pointing the way:

Clearing shooting lanes:

Fishing

At a knife show:

Doing what I do:

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nctry

11/14/2020 09:05AM

You probably don’t remember me 99

Nctry

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nctry

11/14/2020 09:11AM

Ok ok...

In front of Suncatcher's old house.

Nctry

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outsidethebox

11/14/2020 11:08AM

September 2020 BWCA brook trout. These were the small ones!

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Portage99

11/14/2020 11:46AM

nctry: "
You probably don’t remember me 99"

Yes, I do! Slightly out of my time zone, but I had older siblings.

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schweady

11/14/2020 02:43PM

You will see a lot of us in the annual January 1st Roll Call.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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TipsyPaddler

11/14/2020 04:47PM

September 2020 Thunder Point Knife Lake

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Nigal

11/14/2020 05:20PM

"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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goatroti

11/14/2020 07:17PM

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joeandali

11/14/2020 07:42PM

The old guy on the right

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Tony

11/14/2020 08:36PM

basswood Falls

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Michwall2

11/14/2020 09:02PM

Just this last summer with my boys.

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DownStrm

11/14/2020 09:25PM

Seagull Lake this past June.

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crumpman

11/14/2020 09:45PM

Me after removing a jitterbug I managed to embed in my face on my second solo trip.

"Fine figure of a man, yes?" Jeremiah Johnson

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DanMN

11/15/2020 07:31AM

The only selfie I have.

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OMGitsKa

11/15/2020 08:20AM

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preacherdave

11/15/2020 09:03AM

2020 at home with two of my granddaughters.

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520eek

11/15/2020 11:00AM

One of these two clowns is me!

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it!

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ForestDuff

11/15/2020 12:51PM

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marsonite

11/15/2020 01:25PM

Skiing in the Sand Lake Peatland

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Flashback

11/15/2020 03:15PM

Don't do the Boundary Waters. Do flatwater and whitewater rivers. Come here for education, and enjoyment.

Here I am doing things I love...
BOB

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TomT

11/15/2020 04:42PM

Luna and me on the Falls Chain Quetico

My son and me in 2008

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw

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mooseplums

11/15/2020 04:45PM

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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yogi59weedr

11/15/2020 05:34PM

If you've been to Fall Lake campground in June, you might have seen the flag.

Ah retired @ 50

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HowardSprague

11/15/2020 10:02PM

"Enjoy every sandwich"

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WhiteWolf

11/16/2020 03:28AM

Finishing the GP! (Fat and outta shape upper left guy)

The two loudest sounds known to man: a gun that goes bang when it is supposed to go click and a gun that goes click when it is supposed to go bang.

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tumblehome

11/16/2020 07:16AM

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PaddleIN

11/16/2020 08:32AM

My son and me before and after the 320 rod portage from Popular Lake to Skipper Lake.

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fishonfishoff

11/16/2020 11:18AM

Checking the backside of my eyelids!

"What's the worse that could happen?"

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smoke11

11/16/2020 12:20PM

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danbogey

11/16/2020 03:02PM

Heading out into the BWCA for the 1st time with the new pack boat. Can't wait to get back out there.

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bfurlow

11/16/2020 03:38PM

Paddling a local lake

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boonie

11/16/2020 09:06PM

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OtherBob

11/17/2020 04:13PM

Jane is doing draw stroke while OtherBob is doing "O" stroke, going in circles.

OtherBob - lots of Bobs on this board

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DanCooke

11/17/2020 04:22PM

On the current river October 2020

Dan Cooke

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BearBurrito

11/18/2020 03:27PM

My solo backpacking trip to Isle Royale this fall.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning

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rtallent

11/18/2020 04:39PM

DanCooke: "
On the current river October 2020"

Meaning the best here, but you do really look like Gandalf in a canoe, Dan.

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airmorse

11/18/2020 05:49PM

rtallent: "
DanCooke: "
On the current river October 2020"

Meaning the best, here, but you do really look like Gandalf in a canoe, Dan."

He is paddling a red canoe. Put a red cap on. Say a few Ho Ho Ho's and boom Santa.

I've been real good this year. I have a few things on my wish list... hint hint.

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

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airmorse

11/18/2020 06:05PM

Portage99: "
airmorse: " "

I'll see your shadow and raise you a shadow!

"

I'll see your shadow and raise you a BW Zombie Apocalypse.

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

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Arcola

11/18/2020 07:31PM

Upper Basswood falls

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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ForestDuff

11/18/2020 07:44PM

airmorse: "
Portage99: "
airmorse: " "

I'll see your shadow and raise you a shadow!

"

I'll see your shadow and raise you a BW Zombie Apocalypse.

"

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DanCooke

11/19/2020 12:00PM

airmorse: "
rtallent: "
DanCooke: "
On the current river October 2020"

Meaning the best, here, but you do really look like Gandalf in a canoe, Dan."

He is paddling a red canoe. Put a red cap on. Say a few Ho Ho Ho's and boom Santa.

I've been real good this year. I have a few things on my wish list... hint hint."

I had my Santa Stocking hat along but it was never cold enough to put it on.

Dan Cooke

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airmorse

11/19/2020 05:43PM

DanCooke: "
airmorse: "
rtallent: "
DanCooke: "
On the current river October 2020"

Meaning the best, here, but you do really look like Gandalf in a canoe, Dan."

He is paddling a red canoe. Put a red cap on. Say a few Ho Ho Ho's and boom Santa.

I've been real good this year. I have a few things on my wish list... hint hint."

I had my Santa Stocking hat along but it was never cold enough to put it on.
"

Dan Cooke IS Santa...I knew it!

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

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kirkfish

11/19/2020 07:17PM

Not quite a Dan Cooke beard, but I know it is good weather when it gets like this

Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired

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tumblehome

11/19/2020 07:17PM

Why is Santa Dan using a plastic and aluminum paddle? You would think by now he would have something more stylin’.

:)
Tom

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Portage99

11/19/2020 08:38PM

tumblehome: "Why is Santa Dan using a plastic and aluminum paddle? You would think by now he would have something more stylin’.

:)
Tom"

He can ask himself to bring himself a new paddle for Christmas. : )

GREAT photos everyone!

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MichiganMan

11/19/2020 08:53PM

Knife Lake solo trip, late September 2020.

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gkimball

11/20/2020 10:07AM

Doing my best to be stylish - late June Pipe Lake.

Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans...

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DanCooke

11/20/2020 10:58AM

tumblehome: "Why is Santa Dan using a plastic and aluminum paddle? You would think by now he would have something more stylin’.

:)
Tom"

..

Actually it is my Spoon bladed Carbon fiber Paddle with a wood grip on it. The silver is a piece of duct tape to cover a rough spot I was going to get around to taking down with some sand paper- but time got away from me. I have done a lot of river miles with this paddle. Kazan River 560+ Miles, Yellowstone River, Rio Grand, San Juan. Up the Brule and down the St Croix as well as many other smaller right rivers and creeks. The only way you will catch me paddling with an aluminum/ plastic paddle is if was the only thing available to me to get on the water.

You all, Thanks for all the comments about Santa and stuff- they bring a smile to me. May you all have a great Christmas.

Dan Cooke

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airmorse

11/20/2020 11:30AM

DanCooke: "
tumblehome: "Why is Santa Dan using a plastic and aluminum paddle? You would think by now he would have something more stylin’.

:)
Tom"
..

Actually it is my Spoon bladed Carbon fiber Paddle with a wood grip on it. The silver is a piece of duct tape to cover a rough spot I was going to get around to taking down with some sand paper- but time got away from me. I have done a lot of river miles with this paddle. Kazan River 560+ Miles, Yellowstone River, Rio Grand, San Juan. Up the Brule and down the St Croix as well as many other smaller right rivers and creeks. The only way you will catch me paddling with an aluminum/ plastic paddle is if was the only thing available to me to get on the water.

You all, Thanks for all the comments about Santa and stuff- they bring a smile to me. May you all have a great Christmas.
"

Merry Christmas to you as well Dan!

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

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tomo

11/20/2020 11:50AM

Was rocking a serious pandemic beard until a few weeks ago.

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Spartan2

11/20/2020 05:37PM

Our granddaughter took this photo of my husband in 2018. He has ALWAYS used the marlite and aluminum paddle that came with our Grumman canoe (as a freebie) in 1973. Has never had any desire to upgrade, even when I bought myself a nice Sawyer bent-shaft at Canoecopia a few years ago. Lots of canoe trips and other paddling with that old paddle.

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Boppasteveg

11/21/2020 05:17AM

A paddle buddy snapped this one of me at the Alpine-Red Rock portage.

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2NDpaddlers

11/21/2020 10:47AM

2018 Trip

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canoepaddle

11/22/2020 04:45PM

From a few years ago on Ensign.

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walllee

11/22/2020 09:35PM

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x2jmorris

11/23/2020 02:43PM

My hair is significantly longer nowadays but this was a fun night

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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jcavenagh

11/23/2020 04:03PM

A day in the bush can be hard on a man.....
Before...

After...

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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Captn Tony

11/24/2020 11:45AM

airmorse: " "

Wow you’ve lost a lot of weight! You’re just a shadow of your former self!

You're going to HELL and you're going to drag me with ya!! -Gunsmoke

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airmorse

11/24/2020 12:32PM

Captn Tony: "
airmorse: " "

Wow you’ve lost a lot of weight! You’re just a shadow of your former self!"

Nice one. And thanks I have been working out.

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

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jhb8426

11/26/2020 01:14AM

On the way home from a nice trip at Sawbill. And site 1 at Sawbill.

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jillpine

11/26/2020 07:27PM

working:

living:

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Parnell

11/26/2020 08:48PM

solo on Gabbro lake

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ZIMTLSA

12/03/2020 01:53PM

Semper Fi

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aruthenb

12/03/2020 02:33PM

My favorite paddling partners and me.

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sedges

12/04/2020 11:12AM

Sedges and Sue 1989 and 2016. Living more outdoors than in has been good to us!

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bottomtothetap

12/05/2020 01:19PM

airmorse: "

Hey, Brother! here's me fishing this summer on Sawbill
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Also check out 2:21 of this video to see our camp on Disappointment Lake

2015 trip

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beanpole

12/05/2020 02:37PM

From our first trip to the Boundary Waters 2019 (I'm front left). This was after 2 full days of rain. After this photo on Winchell where we stopped for lunch, it started raining again after we arrived at camp for the night.