BWCA 2013

Cross Bay Lake to Poplar Lake

Packed and ready to go	Brother and Sister	Grand Marais	Gunflint Trail	Gunflint Lake
Downtime before the trip	Erik enjoying the breeze	The Bunkhouse	The Bunkhouse at Tuscarora Outfitters	Our Route
The entry Point at 7 AM	Our canoe is waitiing for us	Unloading	Brand new kevlar rental Canoe...not a scatch	Picture perfect morning
Melissa	Ready to take off	Erik at the paddle	First of 16 portages	Stopping to enjoy the beauty
A well traveled portage	Portaging	Another group along the way	Taking a break	Filling the water bottles
Portage #2	Very scenic start to the trip	Wow	Thr breeze feels good	It doesn't get any better
Another bend in the river	A spectator along the way	Portage #3	Lillypad colors	Dad and Erik
Fishing	Rocks and water	Our first campsite	Cooking Supper	Loony Tunes
Trying out the fishing	Caught snoozing	Frying fish	Erik cooling off	2006 Famine Lake fire acroos the lake
A nice camp site to spend the night	Time to wake'em up	Melissa on day 2	Muskeg Portage	A lessor traveled portage
The first of two beaver dams	Rugged Beauty	Thr flowage into Muskeg Lake	Portaging around Beaver dam #2	A good place for Mosquitoes
Erik	A short break at a Muskeg Lake camp site	A long steep portage ahead	Filling the water bottles	Erik found some sunglasses
A group in front of us	Lunch time.... Mac and Cheese	Map and camera case	A thunderstorm on Omega Lake	Sittin in the rain
Setting up camp under a tarp	Shelter for the night	Rain puddles	Reflections	Needles
Beauty after the rain	Spruce	Fun with the camera	White Pine	Dry Clothes
Wet Clothes	Blue Sky to the west	Reflections	Pine reflections	Pines and light
A group passing through	Hashbrowns for supper	Trying some fishing	Ladyslipper	Ladyslipper take 2
Evening reflections	Taking a swim	Water and light	The sun drying us out	View from the latrine
Happy campers	Melissa and Dad	An evening fire	Water and Sky	Watching the sun go down
Erik enjoying the fire	What a view	Can't get enough of the evening	Upsidedown	Highlight of the trip
Dusk	Omega Panorama	Last light	Sunrise	Misty Morning Sunrise
Breakfast	Do we have to leave?	Omega Lake	Packing up	Sky Blue Waters
The waining super moon	On our way, Day 3	Peaceful Paddleing	Shoreline along the way	Paused to enjoy
Shadows	Moth on the water	Moth on the water	Portaging	Sparkles
Breaktime on Gaskin Lake	Gaskin Lake	Ant work art	Blisters	Enjoing the breeze
Rocky Campsite	Melissa the Portage Mule	Portaging	Posing with her 60# pack	Playing with leeches
The loon scores a meal	Grooming	Rain showers	Dragon Fly	White Pine Cone
Flowers	More flowers	Ferns	The snake ate a frog	Nap time
Painted Turtle	Horseshoe Lake Loon	Bobbertime	Caught one	Letting him go
Trolling	Got One	More showers	Evening sprinkles	View out the tent screen
Packed and ready to go...day 4	Cloudy and calm	Rocky White Pine Island	The last portage	Almost there

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