Monday, August 11, 2008 Wake up to paddle across for breakfast around 7AM. Immediately after unloading its obvious Ken’s fishing pole has an issue – the crank on his reel won’t stay on! We can still fish like that but the crank not staying on will be a serious drag on this trip. He takes …
Sunday, August 10, 2008 Alarm goes off at 4AM so we have time to wake up and pick up Ken before 5. Clocks just turned 5 when we merged onto I-94 in Kenosha to start our long drive to Voyageur Canoe Outfitters. Made good time through Wisconsin, got slowed down some on MN-61 after it …
Saturday, August 9, 2008 The day before we leave for the Gunflint. This day had originally been our desired day for driving until a friend decided to have a sunrise wedding that day. The wedding could have worked fine with our plans to travel on Saturday had one of our trip partners not been brewing …
I started planning this trip as a two man journey in August of 2007, with my buddy Joe. Neither of us had been to the Boundary Waters before however we had lots of canoeing and camping experience from back in our Boy Scout days. The trip expanded to three people in November when we started …