I can't speak to the east end but just got off the island Sunday.

S Desor was the worst offender for campground mosquitoes and I can confirm passing through Island Mine that they were present there.

The Greenstone was mostly free of them, while the Minong between McCargoe Cove and Todd Harbor ...

Thanks for the great TR! Really helpful since I’m taking the same route all the way to MC (but then finishing down to RH) in just a few days. Curious as to what’s happening with the water at Desor. Maybe just stagnant and stale due to lack of rain? I’m planning to carry a couple extra liters from ...

Where exactly is the beaver takeover between Hatchet and Todd Harbor? Is it on the Minong Ridge Trail or the Hatchet Lake Trail?


I may have misreported as I believe it is along the Hatchet Lake Trail before reaching the Minong junction. I was a bit of a zombie by this point on the trail, so if ...

It was another great trip to the Isle. It was the busiest and warmest (air and water) we had ever seen across our trips in previous years. We also found a great deal of stuff left behind at campsites and along the trail, including a full tent’s worth of stakes, a bowl and a spoon, a shoe, fish ...

Nominating Todd Harbor as best campsite where the sun rises behind you

What does 2021 bring on this post tower stretch in terms of overgrowth?


Here's a picture from fairly early in the stretch. I don't remember whether it got brushier, or by how much --- but I think that if it had risen to the level of a nuisance, that would at least have disrupted the ...

There’s a bit of an intermission after the trail descends from Feldtmann ridge----a long, basically flat, essentially straight wooded stretch. The monotonous bit couldn’t have been more than 5 miles, but it felt like it took forever to cross.


What does 2021 bring on this post tower stretch in ...

Just got off the island on Sunday, and had hiked the Greenstone from Island Mine to Hatchet Lake junction, and then picked back up at East Chickenbone a few days later. I always consider it to be in great condition, but there were no issues with bugs, and no severe mud patches come to mind (that ...

Through two trips, and hopefully many more to come:

Nights: 21
Miles: 168.3

Some notes to consider:
This was my first trip back to the island after my initial 14-day trip as a teenager in 2002. I had spent much of the last 12 years loosely planning to get back, until really ramping it up over the past winter and spring. I made this trip with a first timer who had never ...

I'm attempting to book a trip and am having no trouble with selecting an outbound reservation (Grand Portage - Windigo), but when I try to select a return trip from beyond Windigo (using Malone Bay, Chippewa Harbor or Rock Harbor) back to Grand Portage on any applicable Tues-Thurs-Sun, I get no ...