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- Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:26 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Tentative itinerary
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1070
Re: Tentative itinerary
That looks doable! Although it doesn't leave you much slack in case of lousy weather or other unwelcome inefficiencies. By Day 2, you'll have a good sense of how much ground you enjoy covering in a day, and you can revise the itinerary on the fly--for instance, leaving the spur to Chippewa for anoth...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:10 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 6/18 - 6/25, 2022 [Paddling] [Inland lake loop]
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4768
Re: TR: 6/18 - 6/25, 2022 [Paddling] [Inland lake loop]
I'm sorry about the blackflies (https://www.nfb.ca/film/blackfly/), and looking forward to the details!
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:20 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 5/30-6/12, 2022 [Hiking] Minong Ridge Trail E>W
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3649
Re: TR: 5/30-6/12, 2022 [Hiking] Minong Ridge Trail E>W
What a fantastic TR! It must have been very gratifying to resolve the mystery of Wolfgang. I count 12 days all together. (I am not a good counter.) Does that mean you scaled the 87 blowdowns on Day 2 with 10 days' (= ?? pounds) worth of food in your pack?? The note card is an excellent idea! Bulleti...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 6:26 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Chickenbone algae bloom?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1555
Re: Chickenbone algae bloom?
This is a long way from recent, and it's speculative: When I walked the E Chickenbone trail about a month ago, signage from last year warning about blooms was still posted. It was very careworn and frazzled: clearly a relic of the previous season. I wonder if that's the source of the report you ment...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 6:04 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Another first timer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3086
Re: Another first timer
I hope there's a trip report coming!!Just_kyles wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:53 pm Thanks for all of the suggestions. I returned from my trip this past Saturday, 6/11.
All in, I did about 70 miles from Sunday evening to Saturday morning.
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 2:53 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 5/30-6/12, 2022 [Hiking] Minong Ridge Trail E>W
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3649
Re: Day 4: Sunday, June 5, 2022
This has been a terrific adventure to follow along! I'm looking forward to more installments! As we approached the junction to Little Todd Harbor, damper sections began to appear until we met the dampest one of all: a stream with nothing but a log to cross it. Until about now, I thought perhaps this...
- Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:12 am
- Forum: General Questions and Miscellaneous
- Topic: Obtaining permit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1658
Re: Obtaining permit
And your season pass will cover your fee! (Probably those of your companions, too, provided they're not too numerous. The letter of the law is that everyone in the "vehicle" (which is clearly assumed to be a car at an NP entrance gate) with the pass holder is covered.)
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Food & Cooking
- Topic: Water Filtering
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23902
Re: Water Filtering
+1 on the pre-filter. IR sources can be mucky/gritty, which can clog a BeFree in a hurry. While I admire the multiple use aspect of the t-shirt method, I use a coffee filter: I keep my cookpot handy, and use it to scoop from the water source, then pour the water through the coffee filter into the sq...
- Tue May 31, 2022 4:49 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2285
Re: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
Note to self: consider a 10-ft pole to assist with the LTH-vicinity creek crossing if water levels are high........ When I walked the Minong in the other direction, exactly three years ago, this crossing wasn't an issue. I mean, given the rickety bridge, there was a significant chance you'd have to...
- Tue May 31, 2022 4:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Unidentified white spot
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6386
Re: Unidentified white spot
If only the webcam had caught the perpetrator in the act!
- Mon May 30, 2022 7:14 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: Washington Creek Campground preferred sites
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1702
Re: Washington Creek Campground preferred sites
All the shelters are creekside. I've never coincided with the moose reputed to flock Washington Creek, so I don't know if some shelters are better situated to appreciate that than others. For what it's worth, the moose watch team who were my neighbors last week, and who probably knew what they were ...
- Sun May 29, 2022 8:16 am
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: are we low priority?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1817
Re: are we low priority?
while sacrificing the capacity to revise itineraries on the fly would be a crying shame, I agree!backwoods doc wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 7:46 am
Regarding campsite overcrowding, I think it's time to bite the bullet and institute a reservation system.
- Sat May 28, 2022 7:29 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2285
Re: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
Fonixmunkee! I am ashamed to have omitted--I'm doing 82 things at once right now---one of the highlights of trip, which was taking advantage of the relative quiet that prevailed at Chippewa Harbor when the Voyageur called there to interrogate you about the lighthouse. Folks, an exceedingly cool aspe...
- Sat May 28, 2022 7:20 pm
- Forum: Trails & Campsites
- Topic: are we low priority?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1817
are we low priority?
This is a question I didn't fold into my trip report, due to the sour note (radically incongruous with how I felt about the trip) it struck. tl;dr: does anybody else feel like the NPS has begun blowing off IR backpackers? in more detail: I'm wondering if others have the sense that, over the last few...
- Sat May 28, 2022 9:18 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2285
Re: TR: 5/2022 [Windigo to RH via Minong and GRT]
May 21: McCargo to Rock Harbor via East Chickenbone, GRT, Mt Franklin, and Tobin Harbor trails The sun finished rising and devoted the day to making up for brilliance lost to the rains over the last few days. The rainscrubbed air was the clearest I'd ever encountered on IR: textures on the cliffside...