Just Slightly South East of the Gunflint Trail
by Camp Cook
Trip Type:
Paddling Canoe
Entry Date:
08/20/2010
Entry & Exit Point:
Lizz and Swamp Lakes (EP 47)
Number of Days:
4
Group Size:
4
Trip Introduction:
This was the second annual “Pops and Gramps Take the Kids in to the Bush for One Last Adventure before School Starts” BWCA trip. I had heard good things about Caribou, Horseshoe and the surrounding area so the plan was to spend four days exploring, fishing and goofing off but…
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…it was not to be. Things came up and this trip will have to wait until next summer. We (the entire family) did get to spend a long weekend with some great friends near Two Rivers, WI (just slightly south, east of the Gunflint Trail;); in lieu of an actual BWCA trip report, I submit the following:
The trip to Two Rivers from Minneapolis took about five hours and was neither eventful nor scenic; guess I expected this stretch of Wisconsin to be prettier. We are visiting two of our oldest and dearest friends, Griff and Britt. Griff and I met as high school freshman and became fast friends. During our junior years we both met and began dating the women who, a little later in life, would become our wives. 18 years later and the four of us are still thick as thieves. Our friends live on a pretty little chunk of heaven out side of town and soon after arriving we put the kids out to pasture, what ensued was…
A bit of this,
Saw one of these,
A bunch of this,
Spent some time here,
My favorite part of the trip,
T’was not the B’dub, just a good time spent with great people. My apologies for veering off topic but I had some trip report energy to burn off and nothing but a canceled trip to report on.
Thanks for humoring me,
The trip to Two Rivers from Minneapolis took about five hours and was neither eventful nor scenic; guess I expected this stretch of Wisconsin to be prettier. We are visiting two of our oldest and dearest friends, Griff and Britt. Griff and I met as high school freshman and became fast friends. During our junior years we both met and began dating the women who, a little later in life, would become our wives. 18 years later and the four of us are still thick as thieves. Our friends live on a pretty little chunk of heaven out side of town and soon after arriving we put the kids out to pasture, what ensued was…
A bit of this,
Saw one of these,
A bunch of this,
Spent some time here,
My favorite part of the trip,
T’was not the B’dub, just a good time spent with great people. My apologies for veering off topic but I had some trip report energy to burn off and nothing but a canceled trip to report on.
Thanks for humoring me,
Matt
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