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- Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:04 am
- Forum: Wildlife
- Topic: 2025 Wolf/Moose Study Out
- Replies: 2
- Views: 146
Re: 2025 Wolf/Moose Study Out
is this the first time the cover has been wolf-less?
- Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:11 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report - Feldtmann Loop, June 2025
- Replies: 3
- Views: 146
Re: Trip Report - Feldtmann Loop, June 2025
Fantastic report! I'm glad to hear that there was moose presence at Feldtmann Lake. It's only right. As for the lake itself, I wouldn't have pegged it as a large enough to make its own weather, but it seems to be!
Are your traveling companions converted, and already planning their next IR trip??
Are your traveling companions converted, and already planning their next IR trip??
- Fri Jul 11, 2025 7:53 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Any 2025 reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 280
Re: Any 2025 reports
Unless they've been moved---unlikely, since they're 300+ pounds and the small clearing they're in is surrounded by heavy brush on three sides and a lake on the other---the Feldtmann lockers are conveniently placed in a small lakeshore clearing about 60 meters north of group campsite one. I've ...
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:37 pm
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Comments and questions for trip planned Sept 2025
- Replies: 3
- Views: 157
Re: Comments and questions for trip planned Sept 2025
It seems like you’ve got a sound plan A, and a good grip on contingency plans and the circumstances that would trigger them! Just a few thoughts:
*3M to RH on the Tobin Harbor trail would be more manageable in the rain than the rock harbor trail. I suspect that even without the slick surface ...
*3M to RH on the Tobin Harbor trail would be more manageable in the rain than the rock harbor trail. I suspect that even without the slick surface ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 7:05 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: A comprehensive question
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18072
Re: A comprehensive question
the (mildly satanic) Days 22 and 23 mileage coincidence is uncanny!
Malone: I haven't got the Nat Geo map to hand---is the spur trail from the dock to Siskiwit Falls on it? And is there also a mapped spur that visits the lakelet just upstream from the falls? (I hiked the latter the one time I was ...
Malone: I haven't got the Nat Geo map to hand---is the spur trail from the dock to Siskiwit Falls on it? And is there also a mapped spur that visits the lakelet just upstream from the falls? (I hiked the latter the one time I was ...
- Sat Jun 07, 2025 6:54 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Am I overreacting about bushwhacking being a bad idea for an upcoming trip?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7449
Re: Am I overreacting about bushwhacking being a bad idea for an upcoming trip?
For anyone considering a bushwhacking experience, wear long gaiters so when you step into a wet hole you didn't see you'll have a few seconds to extract your foot before your boot fills with water.
Also keep your phone and other valuables in a secure pocket! jon, how many moose did your team ...
- Sat May 31, 2025 7:57 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1129
Re: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
Are you thinking ahead to next year ... or was this enough?
Although this was plenty, I am hoping for return engagements. For one thing, I haven't yet achieved the zen of bushwhacking!
I wouldn't be the first returnee: the vast majority of team 1 were repeat offenders.
There's something ...
- Fri May 30, 2025 2:10 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1129
Re: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
(May 15, continued)
Not much later, we come across teaser bone in a beaver meadow. Once again, our leader catches, and follows, the whiff of death. Donald is a nearly-complete recently wolf-killed moose entirely unrelated to the teaser bone. She’s not as wet as Benito, but she’s still pretty wet ...
Not much later, we come across teaser bone in a beaver meadow. Once again, our leader catches, and follows, the whiff of death. Donald is a nearly-complete recently wolf-killed moose entirely unrelated to the teaser bone. She’s not as wet as Benito, but she’s still pretty wet ...
- Fri May 30, 2025 2:03 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1129
Re: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
May 13. From Feldtmann ridge, we thought we’d spotted some high ground we could exploit to negotiate the swamplands south and east of Feldtmann Lake. We follow the trail past the eagle corpse and over the bridge across the Feldtmann outlet, then take a hard left. Readily traversed high ground ...
- Fri May 30, 2025 1:53 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1129
Re: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
(continued)
May 11. Today, we start to search in earnest. We head off-trial, west then north of the lake. Our first serious action is a teaser leg bone near a minor swamp. From a tree near the teaser bone, our leader hangs a blaze orange safety vest fragrant with putrefaction. We fan out hoping to ...
May 11. Today, we start to search in earnest. We head off-trial, west then north of the lake. Our first serious action is a teaser leg bone near a minor swamp. From a tree near the teaser bone, our leader hangs a blaze orange safety vest fragrant with putrefaction. We fan out hoping to ...
- Fri May 30, 2025 1:45 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1129
Trip Report: Moosewatch 2025: May 10-18
**note to reader: due to filesize issues, photos [none of which are mine, due to a May 15 incident described below] are linked to rather than attached. As befits my longest-ever trip to IR, this report is not short. I've broken it down into installments.**
Introduction. Biologists have been ...
Introduction. Biologists have been ...
- Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:09 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: 2025 Trip Log - Post your planned itinerary here!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25546
Re: 2025 Trip Log - Post your planned itinerary here!
Name: Laura
Email: message me here!
Hometown: Ann Arbor
Arrival Date: mid-May
Departure Date: a week later
Coming From/Via: Copper Harbor
Itinerary: under construction, but the organizing principle will be campgrounds I haven't stayed at yet
Notes/Other: it's been a few years since I've had a ...
- Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:05 am
- Forum: Food & Cooking
- Topic: New food storage regulations
- Replies: 41
- Views: 55640
Re: New food storage regulations
I'm not familiar with requirements out west, but I'd be surprised if they are as strict as this.
in the jurisdictions I visit, when bear-resistant food storage is required, the requirement is either an approved bear canister or a food locker. (The bears have figured out how to outwit hangs ...
- Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:36 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: First timer itinerary feedback
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1250
Re: First timer itinerary feedback
that looks superfun! Planning ahead and preparing---which you're doing---will enable you to frame and execute contingency plans if it makes sense to do that. For triangulation purposes, here are a few more thoughts.
In addition to omitting Little Todd, another "zero day" option already built into ...
In addition to omitting Little Todd, another "zero day" option already built into ...
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 7:32 am
- Forum: General Questions and Miscellaneous
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it?!?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4278
Re: Who'd have thunk it?!?
arrgghhhhhh! Does the Voyageur ferry materials for operations at Windigo, or is the Ranger a critical link in the supply chain for that?