BWCA Trip Report - Woodland Caribou 2013: Dunstan, Wanda, Royd Boundary Waters Trip Reports
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Mad Birdman
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07/04/2013 04:37PM  
New Trip Report posted by Mad Birdman

Trip Name: Woodland Caribou 2013: Dunstan, Wanda, Royd.

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PuffinGin
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07/04/2013 05:10PM  
Thoroughly enjoyed reading your report. Great fishing action reports and your photos are wonderful. Impressed with your shots of the great gray owl (and your luck in seeing it). Your sunset pics--spectacular. Wow! to all your wildlife sightings especially the wolverine. Thanks for posting such a great report.
07/04/2013 05:39PM  
Great report! enjoyed reading it, thanks.
kiwibird
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07/04/2013 06:22PM  
Really enjoyed following you day by day. Felt like I was there with you.
Great report and thanks for sharing.My husband and I always wanted to go there but guess we never will now. Thanks again.
07/04/2013 06:43PM  
wow! sounds beautiful. and awesome fishing. if you don't mind sharing, what did the roundtrip flight set you back?
07/04/2013 08:17PM  
Thanks, really enjoyed the report and pictures.
MuDandPhuD
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07/05/2013 08:07AM  
Great trip report, it only helps to confirm that I need to take a trip to the WCPP in the future.
07/05/2013 11:01AM  
Great trip report, it was a very good read. Glad the fishing was good.
07/05/2013 03:00PM  
Well done trip and report. Read like a bucket list trip to me!!
dentondoc
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07/06/2013 08:58AM  
Nice report. The description of the landscape does sound quite familiar. I guess it should since we were in the park at the same time. But you obviously got more rain ... I kept noticing system after system passing south of us during our trip. I only put on rain gear once ... in camp for about 10 minutes when it was just spitting enough to get me damp.

We got 14 days to play around in the extreme NW of the park and because of the portage conditions, we didn't make a fully loaded portage during that entire time. I did make day-trip portages into Artery and Musclow to check out pictographs. Both Artery ports were a mess...each took an hour to traverse and the longest would be about 30 rods. Musclow had been cleared by a local lodge operator, otherwise it would have been impassable.

I guess the good news for us was that, being on the Bloodvein River system, we had over 30 miles of connected water (and many side channels) to explore without a portage. Unfortunately, the lodge motor boats could reach most of it too.

Like you, the weather was outstanding and fishing excellent...but after a while getting pulled around the lake in a solo canoe by a 40+ inch pike can get a little "annoying".

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paddlefamily
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07/06/2013 01:55PM  
Great report. Enjoyed all the wildlife sightings. Good idea, freezing the eggs in the Nalgene. Never thought of that.
07/07/2013 08:10AM  
Very good read with beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful experience.
McVacek
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07/07/2013 09:45PM  
We enjoyed reading your report. Gives us trip fever!!!! Thanks for the lake trout fishing tips too!!!
 
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