It is time to start the December Photo Contest, as well as, Trip Report Contest.
Monthly Theme: Around the Fire from Canoe Country
Show us your great photos of your group around the campfire canoe country!

The winner receives their choice of a hat, shirt, or other optional prizes available each month.

Trip Report Contest: Any trip report published monthly is in the running for winning the prize.

Photo Contest winners are automatically included in a run-off for the photo of the year and the year-end prize! Thank you to Fishell Paddles for awarding the winner of the year end content one of their awesome paddles!

Remember 1 entry per person, please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win with it prior.
- Photos don't need to be taken in the month of the photo contest. You can enter any photo you have taken which matches the theme.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the right to post it.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo that you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message the location of the photo.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this thread by 11:59pm on Dec 31st. Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) or png format and uploaded to this site.

Thank you for participating!

Everything is better over the fire, Long Island lake.

CCO Campground on Moose Lake
13 Sept 2025

Peace and tranquility

Taking a little nap next to the fire on West Pike Lake

Fantastic evening on Buckingham Lake in QPP.

Awaiting morning coals on Disappointment Lake

Canadian Wildfire Haze. June 2025 on Lac La Croix.

Little Sag, fall 2009. used to be a firegrate here, imagining the warmth

Lake Polly moon over campfire.

Moon over Slim Lake

Staying warm on a chilly October evening. Missing Link Lake.

3 Generations by the Fire on Loon Lake

Gaskin

Wrapping up the night on Gillis

Solo Trip on Crooked

Evening journal entry on the Voyager Challenge, LLC

May '24, Kahshahpiwi Lake.

Five soaking wet clowns attempt to create Fire! to survive...

Crew around the campfire on Caribou Lake.

Lac La Croix 1993
A much younger us..

just the wind and me on Aegean Lake in Woodland Caribou, 2 years after a burn.

McNiece Lake (Quetico), late May a few years ago.

Sitting around the fire at Lake Isabella, August 2025, when our campmate turned on her headlamp. We couldn't quit laughing at the sight of what appeared to be 2 glowing red eyes.

High site on South Temperance.

Silence Lake, Quetico.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All.

Slim Lake Halloween weekend 2022.

Echo turned 14 yesterday. Hopefully I can get him up there again this year. I’m going to miss having him along.

This photo was taken on the Yellowstone River, so technically not canoe country. But wanted to share. Some weird light thing going on looks like a UFO.

Campfire on Vista Lake

Photo for the photo contest: Loon on the nest, early July, 2025, Clearwater Lake.

Oyster Lake solo.