Tag: canoe
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid: Getting our Paddles Wet (Part 2)
Turning off the cell phone and leaving it behind for four nights is a liberating feeling. Once we were up the Gunflint Trail, cell phone signals were no more. Problem-solving while camping and on the water in the BWCA would be handled through good old-fashioned brain power rather than plugging the query into Google. No…
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid: Gearing Up (Part 1)
Recently, I introduced you to (or for many of you, reacquainted you with) Minnesota’s cabin culture. In northern Minnesota, I dare say that Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) trips are woven into the region’s culture just as strongly. Amazingly, in over 20 years of living “up north” we had yet to make it into the…
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The Allure of Minnesota’s Cabin Culture
What is it about going to “the cabin”? So many residents of Minnesota already live in rustic, nature-filled settings, yet are eager to pack up the car and head out to “the cabin.” If it is not their own cabin, or their family’s cabin, then it is their friend’s or neighbor’s cabin. In Minnesota, it…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit
As the sun broke across the horizon, I pushed the canoe onto the lake and enjoyed pure solitude. Not even the sound of birds calling to each other through the trees with the hope that others might be awake to return their call. The water was like glass. With each paddle dip, a beautiful pattern…
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