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01/02/2021 05:29PM
What a year. Was told two Fridays ago that the company I work for is going out of biz.
I finally broke up for good with my psychotic girlfriend, and my landlord told me he is thinking of selling the shack. So in a week, I lost my job, my girlfriend and maybe a roof over my head. Wow.
Had a new job by 9:00 am the following Monday after a 5 minute phone call. The rest will take care of itself. Very optimistic about this year. I’ll never die. Too much left to do.
Cheers,
Scat
I finally broke up for good with my psychotic girlfriend, and my landlord told me he is thinking of selling the shack. So in a week, I lost my job, my girlfriend and maybe a roof over my head. Wow.
Had a new job by 9:00 am the following Monday after a 5 minute phone call. The rest will take care of itself. Very optimistic about this year. I’ll never die. Too much left to do.
Cheers,
Scat
01/03/2021 07:38PM
Still hanging out here way too much. 2020 was a tough year with Covid and some other personal stuff but I continue to try to balance the fear and sorrow with optimism for 2021. If things go right this could be a banner year. If not...well we will make the best of it.
This community means a lot to me, I check it every day, usually several times. I value the knowledge, insights and experiences of all of you immensely - thank you all.
This community means a lot to me, I check it every day, usually several times. I value the knowledge, insights and experiences of all of you immensely - thank you all.
01/03/2021 08:39PM
OtherBob here, planning at least two BW trips, and maybe the Q, if the border gets opened.
As a priority vaccine recipient (over 75), I hope to get a head start on the 2021 rush to canoe country.
As a priority vaccine recipient (over 75), I hope to get a head start on the 2021 rush to canoe country.
OtherBob - lots of Bobs on this board
01/04/2021 08:48PM
Still here. Bought our first Kevlar canoe in the fall and going to refurbish it this winter. Got a deer with my bow at the 11th hour of the late season and my son shot a great buck in October. Also lucked into my first turkey with a bow.
We tripped to Stuart Lake over Memorial Day and found it hopping full of people. Fun trip. Hoping to get to Crooked in early June. Stop and see us if you are in the St. Cloud area.
We tripped to Stuart Lake over Memorial Day and found it hopping full of people. Fun trip. Hoping to get to Crooked in early June. Stop and see us if you are in the St. Cloud area.
01/05/2021 09:39AM
MHS67: "
Still around. Almost packed for next BW trip. Figure if I leave now should roll into Grand Marais around middle of August! Just kidding, looks like I won't make it this year. Hope everyone has a good new year! "
I like your powershuttle, but it might not work for portages in the BWCA.
"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD
01/05/2021 04:09PM
Here! Great trip in late September. Sold my share of the practice on Jan. 1st. Working till June 1st.......then part time till next Fall.....then done! Been fighting some plantar fasciitis and it sucks. I need to get it squared away by paddling season. Here's to a better 2021!
"What could happen?"
01/05/2021 06:49PM
Savage Voyageur: "MHS67: "
Still around. Almost packed for next BW trip. Figure if I leave now should roll into Grand Marais around middle of August! Just kidding, looks like I won't make it this year. Hope everyone has a good new year! "
I like your powershuttle, but it might not work for portages in the BWCA. "
It definitely has its limitations! But it did do a good job fixing the road by the lake and transporting an old canoe I had, over to the shop to get a patch job. There was some talk around my family of me being a red neck. I can't imagine why?
01/05/2021 08:04PM
Happy New Year one and all! Still here occasionally but an insanely busy work life in 2020 has sadly curtailed my lurking. Happy to still be employed and have a healthy family. Elderly Mom with dementia and older brother - both high risk - survived COVID. Thankful my two adult kids are healthy as well. No overnight BW trips in 2020 but treasured cabin time up north with dear friends from Chicago. Spent a quiet small family Thanksgiving on the Gunflint Trail.
Looking forward to a BETTER 2021! We're becoming first time grandparents in the spring... just booked a long cabin weekend at Tuscarora for MLK... and hubby agreed to do the Lady Chain again this summer :-) so I am jumping on that one quickly! Hoping for multiple canoe trips this season. And planning annual cabin week at Rockwood with dear friends from Chicago. Our cabin weeks at Rockwood have turned me in to a kayak lover. Canoes are still my first choice and I can't wait to get back to the BW with my Northwind this summer.
Looking forward to a BETTER 2021! We're becoming first time grandparents in the spring... just booked a long cabin weekend at Tuscarora for MLK... and hubby agreed to do the Lady Chain again this summer :-) so I am jumping on that one quickly! Hoping for multiple canoe trips this season. And planning annual cabin week at Rockwood with dear friends from Chicago. Our cabin weeks at Rockwood have turned me in to a kayak lover. Canoes are still my first choice and I can't wait to get back to the BW with my Northwind this summer.
01/07/2021 12:03PM
Still here. Last year was the first time we have not been to Quetico in 30 years. Hope the border is open this year. At 76 years old may not make many more trips. Tried to fly up but it is more trouble than driving from South Georgia.
01/08/2021 12:10PM
Doing well with a new hip. Missed last year for the first time in almost 30 years but can't wait to hit the BW in early June. Hitting the elliptical and power walking 5-6 miles a day to keep everything working. So far so good.
GO PACK!!
GO PACK!!
01/09/2021 10:14PM
Hanging in there through 2020, hope to survive 2021 but it's not off to a great start! Dreaming of open water and the best possible way to socially distance - canoe tripping!
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau
01/10/2021 07:25AM
Happy New Year... I’m giving the go south for a bit in winter thing a shot... Maybe settle these hands down for a trip this year... Big thanks to housty9 and Lisa for taking me and putting up with me last may. I’m real excited to look forward to supporting Marks efforts on his hike this May. I’m enjoying my cabin on a truck...
Nctry
01/10/2021 09:57AM
TomT: "plander: "
Survived a bout with Covid-19 and the year 2020."
Looks like a muskie like I've never seen before. What in tarnation IS that?"
I think some muskies have that pattern, but certainly uncommon.
"I don't care what you believe. I care what you can prove." -Philosopher & Mathematician JJJ
01/18/2021 02:38PM
Hello BWCA Board and happy new year,
UP Boy here. Still alive and doing pretty good, not bad, can't complain.
Several trips canceled last year due to the Covid and the single trip we took last August got cut short by a Derecho storm that cut thru Cedar Rapids, Iowa on August 10 and knocked down most of the trees. I lost most in my yard.
Got several trips in the planning stage now for this summer plus a move to the Saint Paul area to get a little closer to the grandkids.
UP Boy
UP Boy here. Still alive and doing pretty good, not bad, can't complain.
Several trips canceled last year due to the Covid and the single trip we took last August got cut short by a Derecho storm that cut thru Cedar Rapids, Iowa on August 10 and knocked down most of the trees. I lost most in my yard.
Got several trips in the planning stage now for this summer plus a move to the Saint Paul area to get a little closer to the grandkids.
UP Boy
I can only hope that when I die, my wife does not sell my fishing equipment for what I told her I paid for it
01/18/2021 03:29PM
Hey All,
Nice to join you, I'm new! Been making a BWCA or Quetico Trip for the last 4-5 years but just got my first canoe! Excited for a couple of trips this summer, And I share the hope that the border will reopen sometime soon.
JS
PS Also looking to aquire more basic gear, (tired of borrowing everything, time to give back) having fun piecing that together.
Nice to join you, I'm new! Been making a BWCA or Quetico Trip for the last 4-5 years but just got my first canoe! Excited for a couple of trips this summer, And I share the hope that the border will reopen sometime soon.
JS
PS Also looking to aquire more basic gear, (tired of borrowing everything, time to give back) having fun piecing that together.
01/18/2021 04:40PM
Still here... pop in to see what's happening once a week or so, but I don't post very often anymore.
I couldn't fit in a solo last year and big duckling changed up our daddy/daughter trip, but it was still special and a lot of fun. Instead of our annual bwca trip we stayed in a bunkhouse at Rockwood at the end of May for a few nights and did a bunch of dayhikes. Magnetic Rock, Centennial, Caribou Rock, Honeymoon Bluff, and Chic Wauk Museum Trails. These trails can be busy in the summer, but we didn't see anyone on any of our hikes.
The family did get to stay at a Cabin for a week at Rockwood in July and our unnual stay in Grand Marais for MEA Weekend/Moose Madness. We got in some daytrips to the bwca during those 2 trips. We also spent part of Christmas Vacation in Ely and the ducklings saw their 1st wild wolf .
Me and my 3 ducklings on the Caribou Rock Trail. The 2 teenagers are almost as tall as me......but sometimes they act like the toddler LOL.
I couldn't fit in a solo last year and big duckling changed up our daddy/daughter trip, but it was still special and a lot of fun. Instead of our annual bwca trip we stayed in a bunkhouse at Rockwood at the end of May for a few nights and did a bunch of dayhikes. Magnetic Rock, Centennial, Caribou Rock, Honeymoon Bluff, and Chic Wauk Museum Trails. These trails can be busy in the summer, but we didn't see anyone on any of our hikes.
The family did get to stay at a Cabin for a week at Rockwood in July and our unnual stay in Grand Marais for MEA Weekend/Moose Madness. We got in some daytrips to the bwca during those 2 trips. We also spent part of Christmas Vacation in Ely and the ducklings saw their 1st wild wolf .
Me and my 3 ducklings on the Caribou Rock Trail. The 2 teenagers are almost as tall as me......but sometimes they act like the toddler LOL.
Ride EZ
01/18/2021 04:55PM
Best wishes to all for a safe and happy 2021.
If you are considering making this year the one to give back to the wilderness, contact me regarding fun, rewarding trail maintenance trips to the Powwow Trail. Visit www.BoundaryWatersTrails.org for more information or email me, Susan.Pollock@BoundaryWatersTrails.org. Volunteer crew leaders are planning right now for spring trips.
Cheers!
Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC)
If you are considering making this year the one to give back to the wilderness, contact me regarding fun, rewarding trail maintenance trips to the Powwow Trail. Visit www.BoundaryWatersTrails.org for more information or email me, Susan.Pollock@BoundaryWatersTrails.org. Volunteer crew leaders are planning right now for spring trips.
Cheers!
Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC)
01/18/2021 05:35PM
Greetings from Owatonna. Hoping everyone is healthy and ready for a much better 2021. I'm planning two solo trips to make up for no trip last year. :-( Hoping newbies and others will literally clean up their acts and respect Canoe Country.
Stay positive, test negative.
Chris Norbury
Stay positive, test negative.
Chris Norbury
Chris https://chrisnorbury.com profile photo is from 2010. Dad, me, and the redwood-strip canoe he built (with my limited help as a 9-yr-old) in 1965 (or '66).
01/18/2021 08:31PM
Greetings and happy new year to all!
I hope all my old friends are doing well!
Hope to run into some of you on the portage this year!
See you on the water!
I hope all my old friends are doing well!
Hope to run into some of you on the portage this year!
See you on the water!
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
01/18/2021 08:40PM
Hey everyone! Technically Rugged here, still as obsessed with the BWCA as ever, and can't wait to get back. Caught this gorgeous brookie (my first) during my Sept 2020 trip with my girlfriend who also caught her first brookie. It was a 9.5/10 trip, near impossible to top. I'm almost afraid that 2021 will have nothing but bad weather and tons of bugs to make up for the sheer bliss of the September trip.
Hope to see some of you out there this year!!
Hope to see some of you out there this year!!
01/19/2021 04:35AM
Still here, in North Carolina. Not gonna make it up there this year. %^&* virus!
I found a place I can paddle in and camp locally called Lake James. It is no BWCA, but does at least scratch the itch a little.
Stay safe, stay sane, and leave no trace!
Fun4dad2
I found a place I can paddle in and camp locally called Lake James. It is no BWCA, but does at least scratch the itch a little.
Stay safe, stay sane, and leave no trace!
Fun4dad2
If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have time to go back and fix it?
01/19/2021 07:22PM
Hey, I've been absent from the BW a few years due to health issues. I think I will now be able to return to paddling after receiving a much anticipated heart transplant last July. I had been listed for almost 5 years. Hoping to do as much of a paddle trip with minimal portaging.
Happy paddling.
Sink R' Swim
Happy paddling.
Sink R' Swim
01/21/2021 07:31PM
Still here!
I finished hiking the Traditional Superior Hiking Trail last fall (NOBO), and plan to finish up the section from Hartley Nature Center to the Southern Terminus this year.
We went on 1 BWCA trip last year out of East Bearskin Lake (Alder/Johnson Falls), and a trip to Voyageurs National Park as well.
Excited for various trips planned this year, including a hopeful return to winter camping!
I finished hiking the Traditional Superior Hiking Trail last fall (NOBO), and plan to finish up the section from Hartley Nature Center to the Southern Terminus this year.
We went on 1 BWCA trip last year out of East Bearskin Lake (Alder/Johnson Falls), and a trip to Voyageurs National Park as well.
Excited for various trips planned this year, including a hopeful return to winter camping!
“The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” - Nancy Newhall
01/21/2021 11:27PM
Still enjoying the BWCA - Get to bring a buddy and his daughter this year (both rookies), another trip with my cousin, hoping to get to Knife and Kekekabic for the first time! Taking another shot at Eagle Mountain, hopefully it will be above 0 in May. Trying to get my wife to Cherry in July/Aug, and with luck, may try Stuart or Angleworm end of Sept/early Oct. Happy New year to all - may your dreams come true. Been trying to think of something profound to say, but can't think of anything!
"it is tough to beat a person who doesn't quit" - famous philosopher George Ruth
01/24/2021 08:37AM
boonie: "Stumpy: "As my friends would tell you...
"He's not here""
:) Made me think of this Zombies classic "
Woah--NICE high school flashback! Thanks for the memory.
TZ
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb
01/25/2021 06:28PM
Pinetree: "Yes I do Pinetree fished Yawkey Pennington and Huntington this past fall just love this area for the last 30 years. It’s amazing the trails and the access improvement they have made in the last few years . This is where I caught my biggest Minnesota Brookie that was close to the state recordBasspro69: "
Still around."
Still fish the mine pits by Crosby?"
" I want to know Gods thoughts , The rest are details " Albert Einstein. WWJD
01/25/2021 06:36PM
Basspro69: "Pinetree: "Basspro69: "
Still around."
Still fish the mine pits by Crosby?"
Yes I do. Pinetree fished Yawkey, Pennington and Huntington this past fall.
Just love this area for the last 30 years. It’s amazing the trails and the access improvement they have made in the last few years. This is where I caught my biggest Minnesota Brookie that was close to the state record.
"
Wow, that is awesome and good colors on them. This last year they stocked lake trout in Pennington and Sagamore, also, and they are trying to put in a 20 inch minimum on the lake trout.
They did just this last few weeks put some big brook trout, rainbow and brown trout brood stock into the pits this last few weeks. Quite a bit of pressure thru the ice this last week, but quieting down now. I did not make it out. Yes, love that clear water.
One heck of a lot of fat bikes now even riding the trails this winter. That has just exploded. Nice to see a lot of young women and men riding there. I guess the local hospital business has picked up with bumps and bruises from the riders mishaps.
Take care.
01/25/2021 07:51PM
Corndog: "Hello Everyone. I hope everyone is well. Let’s pray 2021 is better than 2020!"
Corndog!
Good to still see you around. Hows the travels to Japan been? We were set to go mid-covid and opted out which in hindsight seems just paranoid and stupid. We ate the whole cost of the flights.
01/30/2021 05:55PM
martian here and accounted for...more or less.
Looking forward to EP50 with my 15 year old son June 7th-12th & EP14 solo the first week of October.
Looking forward to EP50 with my 15 year old son June 7th-12th & EP14 solo the first week of October.
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. Aldo Leopold
02/03/2021 08:42AM
All good here in Duluth. Went to the BWCAW for the first time in winter - snowshoed to the pictographs on North Hegman Lake. Great experience. Two big BWCAW trips planned for 2021 - including doing the entire Crane Lake to Grand Portage border route. Bummed it sounds like my Canadian river trip (Kopka) will not happen for a second straight year due to closed borders, but I will have the Bois Brule, Lake Superior, and others close by for excellent day trips. Hope y’all have a very enjoyable paddling season.
Find a Listening Point and visit often. Develop a Land Ethic and strive to live it.
02/07/2021 12:36PM
Still here. Because of covid missed going to Quetico last year and will miss this year. Last year was the first time missing in 30 years. Now at 76 years old Linda and I hope to be back next year. May not have many more years we will be able to go.
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