It is time to start the February Photo Contest, as well as, Trip Report Contest.
Monthly Theme: Backcountry Cooking
Show us your great photos of backcountry cooking in 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 Feb 28th. Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) or png format and uploaded to this site.

Thank you for participating!

Evening snack, Quetico lake, September 2010

Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, July '24: Limbo Lake fish fry

Warm cinnamon rolls and coffee on a chilly October morning. Cross Bay Lake.

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Bacon wrapped laker fillers. Gillis Lake

Steak and beer on the North Kawishiwi River.

Spaghetti dinner on John Lake

One of my sons is a classically-trained chef--crispy-skin walleye and bass, morels he freeze-dried and brought, garlic mash potatoes, Kahshahpiwi Lake. Unfortunately I left the butter in the car (he has never completely forgiven me).

Loon lake
1st night ritual
Tomahawk ribeye with fried potatoes and onions and garlic

Breakfast burritos!

On a small island in Kawnipi. Had to make a wind screen with the wood and food pack so I could get enough heat to fry those walleyes.

Summer dinner on Sawbill!
It’s become customary on our trips to do a Spam stir fry the first night of camp….we generally travel a good part of the day, and this is a nice meal to put together in a hurry, if you do a fair amount of prep beforehand. We serve this alongside minute rice.
This was an August trip, my Granddaughter Astrid’s first, and she thought it was cool that we brought vegetables from our garden to the BWCA. Green beans, carrots, pea pods, and onions all made the trip. Tomatoes too, but they were gone at lunch!

Kababs at our site on Vera Lake.

Not my photo but my cousin, the cook and food planner, gave permission to post.
Jambalaya and fresh corn bread in a FryBake cooked over (and under) the fire at
Saganagons lake

Winter Solo on Topper Lake, February 2024. I'm often struck by just how much work goes into getting a trout into the frying pan especially on solo winter trips. If you consider all the planning, travel, pulling, firewood, etc. it's still well worth the trouble!

Paddlin' Fuel

- Fueling up on Alice Lake before heading to Insula. 2016. -

Springer2: "One of my sons is a classically-trained chef--crispy-skin walleye and bass, morels he freeze-dried and brought, garlic mash potatoes, Kahshahpiwi Lake. Unfortunately I left the butter in the car (he has never completely forgiven me). "

Can't imagine a better looking dish coming out of the wilderness. My compliments to your son.

We've upgraded to SeaToSummit plates which are pricey but great--the silicone edges flip up to make a bowl and the bottom can be used as a cutting board. Quesadilla with Milton Creamery Prairie Breeze cheese.

Biscuits and gravy on Q Agnes

Fresh blueberry and cherry torte. Lake Alice (beach site) 2016

Hashbrowns. Ottertrack Lake

Pan fried with butter: summer sausage, one half-albino blue smallmouth bass, one walleye, blueberry bagel.

Lemon wedge, Swiss cheese, and warm peach tea on crooked lake.

My backcountry cooking skills might not be as honed in as some! Here's dessert on a beautiful Swan Lake evening. (One of my top ten favorite lakes!) Late May 2024.

Pizza in Fry-bake pan