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2002 Boundary Waters Trip
Charles Sommers Canoe Base
Part #3: The trip comes to an end.
(Crew B's last days on the lakes of the BWCA.)
We did not portage around every rapids. We walked our canoes through a copy of them. This one took us over an hour to walk through. |
When the sun was shining and the air was warm the BWCA is a wonderful place to be. There were many times we were the only people on the lake. |
Everyone thought it was great fun to walk our canoes through the rapids. Most of the walk throughs were small ones like this one. |
Two sets of clothes for five days of canoeing. Of course we had to rinse them out once in a while. Especially our socks! Especially his socks!! |
The camps in the BWCA are small, but that okay. After all, we came to to canoe and relax, not to play football. |
The tents proved to be weather worthy. We never had water in them when the sun was shining. And only a little leaked in when it rained. |
There was a lot of beautiful scenery in the BWCA. Pictures just do not give you a real feeling of what it is like there. |
Our guide, crew leader, and assistant crew leader look at the map for our last day on the lakes, and our last (huge) portage. |
This picture of our third night on the trek turned out so well I just had to put it in this gallery. It was moments like this that made the trip great. |
Okay, so we got lost one day. Well, not really lost, but we were quite confused. For some reason the one canoe without a compass was leading the way. |
The weather was great for most of the trip. However, we did have three rain storms that we had to deal with. The first two did not bother us. |
Oops, another wrong turn. We walked down this small rapids, but when we discovered it was the wrong one we portaged back around it. |
The rains moved in on our last night in the BWCA, and the storms stayed until we got to base camp the next morning. Oh, it also turned cooler. |
Base camp was a place we wanted to be during our last cold morning on the lakes. The dining hall and camp store was a welcome site. |
The administrative building was one of the last things we saw as we left Charles Sommers Canoe base and headed home. |
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Pictures were provided by Steven Borgerding and Kevin Viere.