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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Listening Point - General Discussion Glass Ice on BWCA Lakes |
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12/10/2020 12:22PM
Seeing these conditions have added a bucket list item for me - it won't work this year, but hopefully the next time this happens I'd love to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the BWCA - I would be able to cover a lot more ground faster on skates than in my canoe!
Definitely would make trip planning a bit different though.
Definitely would make trip planning a bit different though.
12/10/2020 01:08PM
Not sure about pulling a sled, but I have had the opportunity to skate on frozen lakes and rivers, but not in the Boundary Waters. It’s quite amazing, and with the right skates, not hard to maintain 15 mph if the ice is good. To see expansive areas of the Boundary Waters, it would probably be best to get blades that attach to cross country skate ski boots. Then when you want to cross portage, just take the blades off and walk to the next lake. You could cover a lot of territory!
WaveRunner
12/10/2020 02:38PM
We parachute skate around Grand Rapids when the conditions hit just right. 6' parachute- no elaborate harness and kite. Might be the most joy you ever have. I figure this happens about once every 7-8 years, and the window is never open long.
12/14/2020 12:28PM
Pinetree: "Some been skating all the way to Basswood rom Moose lake and back the same day."
A nice skate ski is Moose to Prairie Portage and back through Basswood and Wind Bay/Wind Lake.
Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s going to die.
12/14/2020 01:00PM
Banksiana: "Pinetree: "Some been skating all the way to Basswood rom Moose lake and back the same day."
A nice skate ski is Moose to Prairie Portage and back through Basswood and Wind Bay/Wind Lake."
When I was a little younger and had a lot of energy I was always going to do that loop.
I did ski Up to Prairie Portage and past like 3 miles and ski back the same way.
I wonder how long it would take to go from Moose lake landing and come out via Saganaga. maybe too much with short days.
I know I have went from Dorothy Moulters to Moose lake landing pulling a sled before in decent time.
12/15/2020 12:07PM
A year or two ago I had friends that skied (skate skied) from Moose Lake to the Gunflint, stayed two nights in a cabin and skis back. It was spring skiing. I had to work.
Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s going to die.
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