New Trip Report posted by jamotrade

Trip Name: Clearwater Lake With My Wife.

Entry Point: 62

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Nice trip report. Great photos. It's nice to do a motor boat camping trip once in awhile. You get to bring extra creature comforts.

Nice report & pictures.....I see what you say about your dog being too big....huge! Thanks

Great photos, especially like the Voyageur route and the sunsets. Slim Jim looks like a great dog; seems like he must have worked the hardest. :)

This trip gave me the idea of doing something similar with my Dad. He's 75 now and won't do a trditional trip anymore.

Seems like a great way to bring in creature comforts. And that last attempt to get the motor going was full of suspense. My wife would have been letting me have it. Seems like yours is very understanding.

Thanks for the report.

nice report and thanks for the pictures

Thanks for the kind words! I agree that it was nice to be able to bring more of the creature comforts. It would be perfect for a situation like Tom T has, where your elderly parent would be able to enjoy the wilderness without having to get in and out of a less stable canoe. Our situation with Slim Jim was similar since he is just too darn big to be able to do the canoe trips, so this was a perfect option.

I must admit that I missed the quietness of canoe travel and we did not see any significant wildlife on the trip, possibly because we were noisier. Also, I missed the excitement of moving from lake to lake. Even on basecamp trips, we make numerous daytrips to explore new territory for fishing or just for fun. The motor permit limits you to only one lake. It was great to have the Border Route Trail right there. It was a great experience to be able to hike in the BWCA and the views were awesome. I can't imagine just sitting around camp all day for 4 days would have been very fun and cruising in the fishing boat gets a bit old after a couple of runs. Maybe if we do it again someday I will plan to tow a canoe so we can still have the best of both worlds.

This was also the first trip where I didn't fish at all. It might be worth another trip in early June to see if we could pull out a few lakers but I just had no drive to fish for smallies in August.

Nice report & pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Clearwater is a great lake & area to explore. There is a great overlook of Mountain heading in the other direction on the border route trail as well.

Sounds like it was a good thing you had the motor. We went in through Larch Creek at about the same time. The wind and those gusts were absolutely brutal. Even on small lakes like Larch & Clove. Can't imagine what they were like on Clearwater.

TB

Thanks, Tuscarorra! If Slim Jim had been up for it we would have spent a few extra hours going a bit further up the trail to the west and possibly even heading across the Mountain portage to the east to see what we could find.

Yeah, couldn't have picked a better time for our first experience with the motor. It got pretty hairy out there...