It is time to start the May 2009 Photo Contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Bogs".

Monthly Category: Pictures of BWCA and Quetico Bogs

This is a contest to see cool photos of Bogs of the Boundary Waters and Quetico region and optionally pictures of bogwalker in his element.;)

There is again a special reward for this months contests. Along with winning a hat, Wilderness Passages Magazine, created by long time member QPassage, is giving a free copy of their great magazine and a 2 1/2 hour DVD of Quetico footage to the winner of the photo contest and trip report contest. For more information about Wilderness Passages, you can visit their website at WildernessPassages.com

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 in a previous month.

- You must be the photographer of the photo.

- 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 which 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 where the picture is from.

- 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 message by 11:59pm on May 31st.

- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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This is the "Bog" at the start of the "Long Haul Portage" between Pond Lake and Little Gratton, Quetico Provincial Park, June 2008

A rainy day in a PMA.

Nice one snakecharmer!

No name lake off of IMA

That's a really great picture, ktoivola

The Creek Between Meeds and Caribou

Bog east of Parent Lake

August 2008.

Cow and Calf. above Johnson Falls August 2008

just about to the mouth of Agnes 2008

Moose Bay, Lake Saganagons, Quetico

Somewhere in the Quetico...can't remember where.

North Wilder to Kawishiwi River, I think:

Here's one of Bogs in a bog. :)

Here are a few bonus Bogs pictures. :) Note that in the last picture he is wearing his BWCA.com hat in the VNO bunkhouse on the night before a trip.

Canoeing through a portage that was flooded from a beaver dam.

[PLACE HOLDER]

Leaving in 12 days and have no photos to submit since I have never been there.

Geez, Bannock. The campfire spark in that second shot is heading right for Bog's eye. I sure hope it missed.

This is a little stretch of water by Chippewa lake. it was very boggy, the bog was covered with blooming Pitcher plants and Sundews.

Awesome, Ho Ho. That could be a winner.

Mooseplums....nice picture.

"The campfire spark in that second shot is heading right for Bog's eye. I sure hope it missed."

Actually it was his last viable brain cell flying out of his ear.

I thought maybe it was the visible trace of his terrifying magic power to turn normal people into portage-loving idiots.

Ho Ho - That overlook on the Yum Yum Portage is simply breath taking. Nice shot.

This is the portage from hell! The entire portage from start to finish is actually one big bog. From Point lake to Isabella lake in the Quetico.

I thought for sure this was one of those bigfoot pictures with a canoe photoshopped into it. ;-)

Pitcher plants on bog at Star Lake in Quetico.

On the way to a portage 2007.

Wrong turn on portage between Boulder and Cap by my friend Bill.

One of the portages between the three letter lakes 2008

Crutch5

just had to make this post per your bog pic....looks like that classic "bigfoot" pic with a canoe on its shoulders..HAHAHA Good one!

Woodpecker

"Autumn Gold" Tamarack bog at the end of Jackfish Bay, October 22, 2008.


starwatcher

Quetico shortcut between Grey and Dell Lakes

the Sultry to Silence bog portage,Quetico,spring 2006.
when i made this carry solo in 2005 the bog was to wet to cross and i had to make the rock walk on the West side.

Coming in on the Stuart River. Beaver dam washed away and we were left with a "bog" to cross. You can tell my wife is happy by her body language.
June 08

Back before digital I had an el' cheapo 35mm I took paddling. Here's one I really liked of my friends son and a couple moose on Gift Lake. WW

June 07 from "Top of the World"

2004 Trip from Atikokan to Ely. Can't remember exactly where.

the day of infamy.....
there was a water way through this bog at one time, just not this time
Aug 2007 near Oyster Lake

couldn't pick just one pic sorry, one would not have done justice to the event

That's a great time line of Pic's...and minty fresh breath to boot. WOW.

Oh the humanity!

LOL mr.barley!!!

starwatcher

Great pictures! I guess I have decided that I will take the portage from Agnes to Oyster this summer thanks for the tip:)

ekffazr,
I hope you don't mind I copied your photo (women stuck in the mud) to a group of women I'm taking out this summer.

That is one funny photo!

theCanoeman

help yourself.........its a hilarious picture.....she was yelling "SAVE YOURSELVES" at that point in time

:O)

Wow, I don't bring orbit to the BW.

ekffazr,

That's sooooo funny, made me laugh. Hard to do these days.

This is my brother or his alter ego Jungle Boy, I am not sure which.

ekffazr, your pics bring back some fond memories. our group was trying to avoid another portage from Agnesb to Oyster and found out exactly what your pictures explain. we did it memorial weekend and it wasn't much more of a channel than what your group encoutered. thanks for the pictures. sure brings back good memories.

I think ekffazr deserves honorary mention if he doesn't win the May photo contest!

starwatcher

The Orbit pic is hilarious.

Only way it would have been better is if he'd been holding a tube of Mentos.

people smiled
mission accomplished

:O)

Baptism Creek

Pitcher Plant of Sundew Bog

Bog on the portage into Other Man Lake. May 2009.

After viewing this string of pics, I think I want to avoid bogs. :)

Especially in the rain!

The "portage" from Adams to Boulder.

Pmagoo777,

Is that Lower Pauness Lake, at the Shell Lake portage?

PHOTO IS FROM CROOKED LAKE

Yes it is. Here is one of me on the other side.

Hilarious! I know the water was way low in 2007; we did a Sag-South Knife-Seagull loop in August that year, and the water levels were way down. Did that portage last summer, and even when they are up, those two landings can be really muddy.

I think Shell Lake has reclaimed those logs since then.

The winner of the May photo contest is Ho Ho. A tough topic and some great pictures making for a tough decision.

The trip report contest goes to rlhedlund.

The extra hat goes to Corsair.

Congratulations to the winners! Thank you everyone for sharing such great photos and trip reports!

Cool! My favorite category, too. There were a lot of fun pictures and ekffazr's series is hilarious.

Thanks HO HO