It is time to start the February 2008 Photo contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Summer Days". Post your best photos that from the bwca/quetico region which will give us all warm thoughts of summer trips.

Monthly Category: Summer Days

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 Feb. 29st.

- 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

P20080201

Cattyman Falls

July Lunch on McAree, just south of Brewer's Rapids Portage

Old pic of a friend on Lizz Lake. WW

June 07 Kawnipi Lake

Insula Lake relaxation.

Russell Lake Beach

Watching the sun set over Lake Two.

Cedarstrip on Clear lake

The Family at the bench behind V-North after a one week stay on Iron, and making it out in one day...

Tough looking bunch huh??

Bruce

Canoe on a beech of Insula, on a hot summer day.

My wife's idea of an intense BWCA excursion. Amoeber Lake, August, 2007.

A mink I happened to see running around the rocks at upper basswood falls, July 2006.

Wisini Lake, August 2, 2005

I wanted to share this extra picture because you can see the BWCA.com sticker on the stern of the canoe.

This was taken in the Ada Creek area on July 25, 2007. The high for the day was 94 degrees with 90% humidity, but it wasn't the worse day of the trip because there was a breeze. The day before the air was deadly still and the heat oppressive. And the day before that the temperature was a mere 93 degrees with a 91% humidity, but the overnight low was 76! No relief that day, not even at night.

It was one HOT trip!

Early morning start in July 2006 on Vernon Lake.

Bald Eagle Lake '06
Just after an August Rain shower- lots of storms later that night.

Enjoying a sunny day at Adventure Lake - August 2006.

AAHHH! A real nice afternoon in August.

Nothing says "Summer" like an afternoon snooze in a hammock! And what hammock fan hasn't done the foot self-portrait? I'll bet we could start an entire category of these.

Sleeping on a rock! Only in the BWCA summer.
June 2007 Lake Polly

Summer Lake Plunge...Ahhhhh

In the dead of winter, we dream of cutting our canoes through glassy waters in the cool of the morning. This picture helps me to visualize that! On Lake Saganagons, August 2006

My dad taking a nap at Insula in late June 2007. Rough first day of paddling.

Napping under the shade tree on Moosecamp Lake.

A summer day on Smite Lake (14th of never, 2007)

Playin cards on the rocks. June 07-Oyster

My two sons and my son-in-law.
Priceless!

Layover day.....

I'm with you knothead180...I have a whole series of BWCA pix taken from my perspective (feet in hammock, knees in canoe, knees at campfire, snowshoes on ice, etc.) But for this contest I think I'll submit full body in Eddy Falls.

We had just endured an hour long downpour on angleworm lake when the clouds began to lift and gave way to a spectacular sunset to end our day.

On Kahshahpiwi

Disappointment was not a Disappointment to relaxation 7/25/07

Woodpecker

HighPlainsDrifter,
Are you being hailed upon a nice summer day?

I was on that trip with drifter and yes it was snowing... It was GREAT!!!!!

14th of never (September 2007) was technically still summer
June 20 was the first day of summer
September 22 was the first day of autumn

it just seems our summer experience includes snow..... what can ya say? Any day in the BWCA is a good day

Sorry, I gusee the description did not make it on the photo...

This picture was taken on an early July trip to Grace Lake. We had some pretty severe thunderstorms on our first day/night but the 2nd day was perfect...

Beautiful lake, beautiful weather, good times had by all.

Summertime fun on Lake Three

tony

Can't wait to get back on the water.

Some quality architecture on Oyster, Summer 2007.

Sirs: I have taken a beautiful picture when I camped inthe BWCA in the summer of 2007. I would like to send the picture in the mail instead of downloading it since I do not have the capacity to do that. My email address is costellojoan@hotmail.com Would you please send me an address to send the picture to? Thank you, joni

Warm day.... No City Noise.... sound of slightly rushing water.... total relaxation in the summer time on Lac Lacroix

brianw - mouth of the Boulder River?

Its very possible, I try to pay attention to portages on the map, anything else was sight seeing and relaxation. Point me... I'm gone. I know we started from some southern islands off of Lac Lacroix and curled to the left thru some good size rocks sticking up in the water. 2 things reminded me of them, Stonehenge or cemetery grave stones. I believe at some point there must have been a fire there once because there were charred trees.
Brian

pretty vague I know

Yeah...a little vague. LOL! The area in your picture sure looks familiar. Thanks for posting it!

My two amigas admiring a Sunset on Seagull Lake

this was a hard one--i have enought summer days photos to fill
a book--smimmming--fishing--laying around camp...
but i think this really sums up what i love about canoe tripping.
going north on Agnes Lake,light breeze at my back,shorelineing
the "long point"..the blue of the big open sky and water..
and best of all only five out on a fourteen day trip!!! and --yes--i went under that overhanging tree..i always try to.

Home Sweet Home
Alpine Lake

My campsite on Boot Lake was amazingly huge and there were a couple of neat little trees growing out of the rocks. I love the beauty of contradictions!

Summer Clouds--Nina Moose? 2003

kurps- nice shot-like the blueberries.

On Shell Lake end of July '07

hey jimi...is that the site that is one rock slab from the water angled up to the tent pads? west side?

jon,

the rock slab does pretty much run up to the tent pads, but it's on the south side of the lake. It's camp site 49. Look here.

Just another breezy summer day in the BWCA

South Arm of Knife....Windbound, but only for awhile.

The end of the day on Disappointment Lake. It had rained and been miserable all day. An hour before sundown, voila!

Summer Sunset on Kawnipi.

THAT IS ONE HAIRY WOMAN! It wasn't that hot of a summer day. I told my brother to put his shirt back on.

Creek into Rifle. July 2007.

February's Photo Contest was a great one, I loved all the pictures!!
is there a winner???

The winner of the February Contest is prettypaddle. The trip report contest was won by hexanymph. The extra hat goes to HighPlainsDrifter who also submitted an excellent trip report along with his rainy summer's days photo. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for entering!