Click to View the Full Thread

Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Solo Tripping :: Solo Pictures
 
Author Message Text
Banksiana
03/01/2015 10:18PM
 



Heading out too early - Argo/Crooked portage, April 2012
 
mooseplums
05/31/2016 11:17AM
 

 
ILcdr
03/01/2015 08:35PM
 

 
KevinL
03/01/2015 08:54PM
 








Still like my BWCA shark. Never noticed it until I got home
 
egknuti
04/19/2017 11:23AM
 
quote TomT: "I agree with Bob. Those are four spectacular shots. I gotta know how you took the shadow pic. You must have had your camera in one hand right?



"


I used my gopro camera to get this shot. I had it mounted on my thwart. It's actually a still from a short video I made.
 
Rob Johnson
03/04/2015 11:13PM
 
quote HansSolo: " "














Where do you find a beach like that in the Bdub?
 
HansSolo
03/05/2015 11:45AM
 

You are correct about the beach location Banksiana!

All the pictures in my initial reply are from several recent Quetico solo trips, and the beach photo was in fact taken on Sturgeon Lake. (I'm fairly certain kanoes' picture was taken there as well, albeit with different water levels.)

The sandy peninsula lies on the southeast shore of Sturgeon Lake, about mid-way between the mouth of the Maligne River and Scripture Island.

Latitude:48.45705 Longitude:-91.63475

Aside from the expansive beach, there's a huge amount of open space under the small pines for camping, and almost unlimited tent pads. If there was ever a location in Quetico that could host a canoe camper's "kegger", this would be the spot. (A few more pictures below)

I saw only one other paddler, (a solo tripper in an old, brown Sawyer "Goldenglass" Summersong), while paddling and camping on Sturgeon Lake when I took these pictures on a September 2013 solo trip. During the peak summer months though, you can bet there would be many visitors to this location.

Unfortunately, the were several row boats stacked towards the back of the site, which I assume were cached by the First Nations' guides.

Pickerel Lake and Quetico Lake also have some notable sand beaches. The only sand beaches that I can recall seeing in the BWCAW would be on Frost Lake, Alice Lake, some on Seagull Lake, and a few other lakes that I can't think of right now.

My apologizes for the thread deviation, but I wanted to address the beach question.

Now back to more solo pictures!

Hans Solo



 
Rob Johnson
03/04/2015 11:14PM
 
quote kanoes: "feeling really alone.
"



Here too...where do you find a beach like that?
 
Banksiana
03/05/2015 12:40AM
 
quote Rob Johnson: "quote kanoes: "feeling really alone.
"




Here too...where do you find a beach like that?"



My guess is that both would be on Sturgeon in the Q.
 
jwartman59
03/04/2015 01:39PM
 




 
ducks
03/03/2015 06:01PM
 

 
OgimaaBines
03/17/2015 07:23PM
 

 
OgimaaBines
03/17/2015 07:47PM
 

 
OgimaaBines
03/17/2015 07:47PM
 

 
boonie
03/17/2015 11:27AM
 
Polly Lake

Some pictures from places on your route should get you revved up, housty ;).





 
WhiteWolf
03/04/2015 11:28AM
 

 
mr.barley
03/04/2015 01:38PM
 

 
Frenchy19
03/04/2015 09:27AM
 

 
housty9
03/04/2015 06:39PM
 
2nd solo
 
housty9
03/01/2015 07:32PM
 
Let's see some of your solo pictures, to get us pumped up for 2015, just a little over 2 months away.


 
wetcanoedog
03/01/2015 08:49PM
 

breakfast for one.

lunch for one.

dinner for one.
 
HansSolo
06/13/2016 12:05AM
 

The site in question above is on Burntside Lake, south of Jean Lake and Conk Lake in Quetico. It is in fact an island campsite.

Hans Solo



 
ILcdr
03/15/2015 09:03PM
 
Dinner for one at The Fat Lake Café...


The view:

 
nctry
03/15/2015 07:32AM
 






 
kanoes
03/15/2015 09:45PM
 
the little things...my favorites, and bruce the spruce.



















 
boonie
03/23/2017 09:00PM
 
Shutterfly site has my 2016 pictures added. between Boulder and Adams.
 
housty9
03/21/2015 06:50PM
 
2nd paddle 2015
 
wetcanoedog
03/18/2015 09:34PM
 
and ends in the parking lot!!!

 
housty9
03/15/2015 10:56AM
 
1st solo paddle 2015


 
wetcanoedog
03/14/2015 08:27PM
 

 
TomT
03/15/2015 10:12AM
 
September 2013 quetico loop from Louisa east to McEwen then up the Falls Chain to Saganagons then west through the Man Chain back to PP. The layover on emerald was worth it just to see the water color.









 
kanoes
03/15/2015 10:38AM
 

 
bwcasolo
03/13/2015 10:24PM
 
keep them coming solo boys and girls, great post!
 
boonie
03/09/2015 10:03PM
 
You're killing me with these pictures, housty - my trip's not until Sept!
 
TheBrownLeader
03/10/2015 11:02AM
 







 
housty9
03/10/2015 11:21AM
 
quote boonie: "You're killing me with these pictures, housty - my trip's not until Sept!" There helping me get pump up for May, I'm going paddling this weekend at the Mississippi.
 
housty9
03/09/2015 07:10PM
 
6th solo 1st half of trip 4 days ep. 30


 
housty9
03/08/2015 11:15AM
 
5th solo...and you wondered where the nine came from.






 
housty9
03/08/2015 06:43PM
 
quote Jeriatric: " "
Very nice walleye, how many inches?
 
housty9
03/05/2015 08:30PM
 
3rd solo
 
housty9
03/06/2015 07:51AM
 
quote boonie: "Housty9- that 1st picture from the 3rd solo looks a lot like Island River before the Pagami burn." It's coming out of the Royal river heading in to North fowl.
 
bwcasolo
03/06/2015 06:31PM
 
this is a great post, keep em coming!

 
HansSolo
03/06/2015 07:58PM
 
quote bwcasolo: "this is a great post, keep em coming!"

OK, here you go!



 
boonie
03/06/2015 09:07PM
 
quote bwcasolo: "this is a great post, keep em coming!"
OK, you can find the last 3 years (a couple of hundred) here







 
hobbydog
03/06/2015 09:17PM
 
quote bennojr: "quote housty9: "quote boonie: "Housty9- that 1st picture from the 3rd solo looks a lot like Island River before the Pagami burn." It's coming out of the Royal river heading in to North fowl."
Was that portage hard to find? I've was close one early spring day but didn't battle through the weeds to search for it-beautiful river to paddle."

Not really, especially in the spring. It can be a little wet on the Fowl lake side though.









 
boonie
03/05/2015 09:12PM
 
Housty9- that 1st picture from the 3rd solo looks a lot like Island River before the Pagami burn.
 
wetcanoedog
03/04/2015 10:21AM
 

 
housty9
03/04/2015 12:35PM
 
Great pictures.
 
luft
03/03/2015 07:33PM
 

 
housty9
03/03/2015 07:58PM
 
First solo



 
Minnesotian
03/03/2015 09:52AM
 



 
OldGreyGoose
03/03/2015 11:10AM
 

--Goose
 
mooseplums
03/03/2015 12:23PM
 
quote housty9: "quote kanoes: " " Bear problem?"


Big Chipmunks
 
Tony
03/03/2015 11:33AM
 

















tony
 
housty9
03/03/2015 12:03PM
 
quote kanoes: " " Bear problem?
 
WhiteWolf
03/03/2015 02:34PM
 

 
OBX2Kayak
03/02/2015 07:38PM
 

 
hobbydog
03/02/2015 07:57PM
 

 
kanoes
03/02/2015 08:12PM
 

 
LindenTree3
05/08/2016 04:58PM
 
Just got back from an overnighter on Skilak Lake. South Central AK.
 
LindenTree3
04/24/2016 04:19PM
 
Just went for a day paddle around Lower Ohmar Lake on the Kenai Peninsula, AK. I'll see if I can send these pics.
 
cowdoc
04/24/2016 07:59PM
 
Matthew Lake in the Hairy Lake PMA

 
MHS67
04/23/2016 09:31PM
 
South Temperance
 
hamillsc
04/22/2016 11:50PM
 



Just a paddle on a local lake.
 
SunCatcher
04/17/2016 08:42PM
 
Mexican Hat Waterfall Woodland Caribou, and the other smaller one is in Woodland Caribou WEST of I think Royd Lake on Royd Creek. I was headed to Donald Lake.



Great photos. Thanks for sharing them. Where are the waterfall shots from?"
 
kanoes
04/17/2016 09:27PM
 
sturgeon in the quetico, bootleg in the bw.
 
hobbydog
04/11/2016 09:40PM
 
These are the evenings you live for on a solo. I wish I had taken more video but I was living in the moment and almost forgot to capture the moment.


Summer Solstice 2015
 
HighnDry
04/12/2016 06:42AM
 
quote jcavenagh: "August 2015 on the west border of Wabakimi...





...and at my campsite on Flindt Lake... "



At least some of that looks familiar!
 
jcavenagh
04/11/2016 03:52PM
 
August 2015 on the west border of Wabakimi...




...and at my campsite on Flindt Lake...
 
boonie
04/12/2016 07:03AM
 
Shutterfly albums with 2012, 2013, and 2015 solos and 2014 trip with Steve. Lots of pictures!









 
nojobro
04/11/2016 09:25AM
 
Inspiring thread! I can't wait to add my own pics....
 
ducks
03/20/2016 09:33AM
 
People must be getting pumped for their 2016 solos. I know I sure am. It's also going to be my first May bwca trip.


Let's get the photos going again!!! From my 2nd solo which was in August of 2015.
 
LindenTree3
03/20/2016 11:06AM
 
Here are a few pics. North Carolina last weekend, overnight solo in Merchant Millpond state park.



A couple Alaska pic's of solo last year.
I'm leaving for Anchorage tomorrow. Hope to be canoeing soon. Some of the big lakes on the Kenai Pinnisula never froze this winter, due to the 2nd warmest winter on record.












Last one is North Carolina again, campsite on the lake. Rented canoe.
 
HansSolo
03/20/2016 06:02PM
 

BWCAW Solo, August 2015

Hans Solo



 
egknuti
03/24/2017 01:59PM
 

 
TomT
03/24/2017 06:58PM
 
DP



 
Solobob1
03/24/2017 03:44PM
 
Wow! Great pics egknuti. The shadow pic is really cool.


Bob.
 
TomT
03/24/2017 06:58PM
 
I agree with Bob. Those are four spectacular shots. I gotta know how you took the shadow pic. You must have had your camera in one hand right?



 
housty9
03/30/2015 08:02AM
 
If anybodies is interested I'm going paddling the 4th again down to the river, lots to see and do.
 
housty9
03/29/2015 05:31AM
 
3rd paddle 2015, wish a guy could paddle every day, darn work gets in the way.
 
HighnDry
03/18/2015 08:49PM
 



...every trip begins with the put-in...
 
HansSolo
03/18/2015 07:16PM
 

quote housty9: "quote boonie: "You're killing me with these pictures, housty - my trip's not until Sept!" There helping me get pump up for May, I'm going paddling this weekend at the Mississippi. "

So we're still doing this!?

Okay, not the Mississippi River, but close. Here's a few random pictures from several of my Lower Wisconsin River solo trips over the years.

Hans Solo


 
hobbydog
03/18/2015 09:08PM
 
90 more days.



 
housty9
03/10/2015 07:12PM
 
6th solo 2nd half e.p. 39

 
Jeriatric
03/09/2015 05:54PM
 
quote housty9: "quote Jeriatric: " "
Very nice walleye, how many inches?"




The pic was of ENORMOUS importance to me. That fish was my first ever walleye. It is also HUGE in that it is the only selfie I have done with a fish.
 
TomT
03/08/2015 05:09PM
 
Jeriatric, what's the story behind that walleye. That thing is of the very large variety.



 
Banksiana
03/07/2015 03:38PM
 

 
TomT
03/08/2015 09:21AM
 
bwcasolo, I'm surprised to see the tent. Is that an older pic from your ground dwelling days?


I went from tent to hammock and now back to tent because I bring my dog. I'm thinking of getting the dog her seperate tent in the future so I can return to the trees.
 
bwcasolo
03/09/2015 05:26AM
 
quote TomT: "bwcasolo, I'm surprised to see the tent. Is that an older pic from your ground dwelling days?



I went from tent to hammock and now back to tent because I bring my dog. I'm thinking of getting the dog her seperate tent in the future so I can return to the trees."

hey tom I had both on that trip, it was a snowy, rainy October solo, the nemo is the wife's and my river tripping tent, had to try out the new gear and give her a review.
 
wetcanoedog
03/08/2015 11:26AM
 








The Solo View
 
Jeriatric
03/08/2015 03:19PM
 

 
bwcasolo
03/08/2015 06:09AM
 

got to solo!
 
Exo
03/07/2015 09:27AM
 


 
housty9
03/07/2015 10:48AM
 
4th solo.



 
housty9
03/07/2015 10:43AM
 
quote bennojr: "quote housty9: "quote boonie: "Housty9- that 1st picture from the 3rd solo looks a lot like Island River before the Pagami burn." It's coming out of the Royal river heading in to North fowl."
Was that portage hard to find? I've was close one early spring day but didn't battle through the weeds to search for it-beautiful river to paddle."

It wasn't too hard to find. Just follow the rice till the river starts, then go up-river 50 to 70 yards, then it's on the right side.


 
bennojr
03/06/2015 04:00PM
 
quote housty9: "quote boonie: "Housty9- that 1st picture from the 3rd solo looks a lot like Island River before the Pagami burn." It's coming out of the Royal river heading in to North fowl."


Was that portage hard to find? I've was close one early spring day but didn't battle through the weeds to search for it-beautiful river to paddle.
 
HansSolo
03/02/2015 08:40PM
 


 
TwoByGreenCanoe
03/02/2015 09:01PM
 








I guess not a true solo since my 4 legged buddy was with me.
 
billconner
03/02/2015 09:40AM
 



a couple from my only solo (does that make it a solo solo?)
 
Haze311
03/02/2015 03:37PM
 
Really cool thread! Unfortunately I don't have any solo pictures to add, but really interesting to see the different layouts some of you have on your canoes!
 
mooseplums
03/02/2015 04:43PM
 

 
elfhair
03/02/2015 11:27AM
 

 
TomT
03/02/2015 11:48AM
 
Sometimes there's days like this. My last three solos I had challenging weather on the first couple of days then beautiful days for the rest of the trip. If I had a choice this is the way I would want it. My last extremely bad weather trip was in 2007. This pic is day one in Sept. 2013. Luna was a good soldier.



 
butthead
03/02/2015 01:28PM
 



butthead
 
nlong
03/02/2015 02:14PM
 

 
TomT
03/02/2015 05:20PM
 
Quetico loop in 2011.



 
MacCamper
03/02/2015 05:51PM
 




















Fun to sort through some of last summers pictures and get charged up for the season ahead. Spring is just around the corner. Thank you one and all for sharing your shots. It appears I'm in good company in the great outdoors.
Mac
 
boonie
03/01/2015 10:00PM
 
Where's that first picture, KevinL?

Here's a link to my most of my last three years pictures:

BWCAW Trips

Here's a couple:

 
Hoaf
03/01/2015 11:45PM
 


 
bwcasolo
03/02/2015 05:18AM
 
 
gkimball
03/02/2015 08:15AM
 

 
kanoes
03/02/2015 09:39AM
 
feeling really alone.

 
mr.barley
03/02/2015 12:40PM
 
Ice out on Tuscarora May 2013. At the portage from Tusc into Owl.
 
hobbydog
03/02/2015 01:48PM
 

 
Bannock
03/02/2015 02:43PM
 






 
housty9
08/10/2015 05:37PM
 
A few pictures of the last 2 weekends of paddling the Mississippi between Alma Wis. and Minieska Mn.



 
Parnell
06/29/2016 04:42AM
 

 
TomT
06/24/2016 07:04PM
 

 
housty9
06/24/2016 03:48AM
 
Best sunset I've ever seen anywhere, on little sag.
 
ducks
06/01/2016 06:00PM
 
From the beginning of May. Entered at Morgan and exited at Lizz.
 
LindenTree3
06/01/2016 09:29PM
 
I got a day off from firefighting today and did a day trip in the Chugach NF, AK. These two Lakes have a few dispersed campsites on them, one with a bear box.


Here are some pics.



The quarter mile portage into Rainbow Lakes.
 
TomT
04/23/2016 12:34PM
 
L to R Falls Chain Quetico Sept. 2013. Gebe Lake stone chairs BW Sept. 2012. Quetico Day 1 2011. Quetico creek from McEwen Lake north to Falls Chain 2013.







 
housty9
04/22/2016 12:22PM
 
Last year 2 week solo.
 
Tony
04/22/2016 04:13PM
 
















 
SunCatcher
04/17/2016 03:08AM
 



















 
HighnDry
04/17/2016 07:04AM
 
quote SunCatcher: "





"



Great photos. Thanks for sharing them. Where are the waterfall shots from?
 
LindenTree3
04/19/2016 10:25AM
 
A couple pics of Hidden Lake on the Kenai Peninsula, AK.
I did a solo overnighter there on 4/17/16.



 
ZaraSp00k
04/14/2016 10:34PM
 
quote HansSolo: "quote bwcasolo: "this is a great post, keep em coming!"


OK, here you go!



"



That's in Quetico, I just can't remember where, west side, south of Jean I believe, Burntside?

BTW, Beaverhouse has a nice sandy beach too
 
GraniteCliffs
04/15/2016 12:13AM
 
quote ZaraSp00k: "quote HansSolo: "quote bwcasolo: "this is a great post, keep em coming!"



OK, here you go!




"




That's in Quetico, I just can't remember where, west side, south of Jean I believe, Burntside?


BTW, Beaverhouse has a nice sandy beach too"



The island site, I believe
 
crumpman
03/20/2016 06:31PM
 







 
tom14
03/20/2016 07:45PM
 

Last years trip
 
cowdoc
03/20/2016 10:34PM
 
Last Fall. Wish I had time for a May trip.

 
housty9
03/22/2017 06:23PM
 
November 5th & 6th 2016 2 day solo, Mcfarland to John.
 
Solobob1
03/22/2017 08:27PM
 
Man there are some cools pics in this tread! It is an old thread, but heck the 2017 season is near. My dog Jake and I were exploring the Wisconsin River backwaters last weekend training for another go this summer. Here are some of my pics to add to this thread;
















 
hooky
03/23/2017 09:47AM
 
From May of 2015











 
Krien2731
03/23/2017 11:53AM
 
What kind of pack is that on your pup and how do you like it?
 
Solobob1
03/23/2017 07:49PM
 
The pack is from RUFFWEAR, it is called the Palisades pack. I really like it a lot. It connects to a vest and the bags are removable. It has two water bladders I use for flotation. So even when my dog's pack is full for travel, he still floats. I love the pack, it is durable and fits well.


Bob.
 
bfurlow
03/25/2017 09:32PM
 
quote TomT: "I agree with Bob. Those are four spectacular shots. I gotta know how you took the shadow pic. You must have had your camera in one hand right?



"

I am guessing mounted, or stable camera with a remote in one hand. If not that, then sitting still and using the timer built into most cameras.


Very cool stuff.
 
cowdoc
03/26/2017 05:39PM
 
Interesting paddle/portage down the Chub River