Thimbleberries weren't quite ripe for us but the blueberries were all over in the open areas and were great in the pancakes!

Got home Saturday from our trip. Had a great time. Beautiful weather. We had two groups of 6. Our group ended up going Rock Harbor to Lane Cove, Lane Cove to West Chickenbone, A morning trip W/O packs to McCargo Cove to check out the mines then back to camp and on to Lake Ritchie, Lake Ritchie to Da...

We were on the east half Sunday to Thursday and there were no black flies. Mosquito's weren't bad except some low lying areas around Lane Cove. Even then they weren't to the point of putting on a head net. Have fun!

FYI. The Rangers are wise to breaking up your large group into two smaller individual parties of six or less. They will make sure you have two completely independent itineraries such that you are not in the same campground on the same night. Refer to this old thread… http://isleroyaleforums.com/vie...

We're at 6 per group at this point and planning on keeping it that way. I'll have to read up some more. Thanks for the link!

Hi all, I'm hoping to get some help in planning a 4 night 5 day 30 mile (approx. can go more) backpacking trip. We're planning on taking the Copper Harbor ferry and doing a loop of some sort and returning to Rock Harbor. We've got some younger boys and generally limit ourselves to 9 miles or less pe...