I have gone to the BWCA every year for a while now, but I've always done it in my canoe. If I were to take a kayak (and I've thought about it) I would go in at Moose Lake. Then take the prairie portage into Basswood Lake. I think that is a mechanized portage where you can pay a small fee ($15?) to an outfitter who will load your boat on a truck and drive it across. Basswood Lake would then be big enough to allow for some substantial exploring. The downside to that trip is that I doubt you would get much solutide. >From the other people I've met who go to the BWCA that is a pretty heavily traveled route. And that route also allows small motors. It s true that the farther you go in, the more portages you cross, the less people you will see. I've been out to Boulder Lake twice, both times the day I spent in the lakes around Boulder I saw only two other groups all day. VNP might be better just based on logistics - no portages. I've never been there so I can't comment on it. Mel There are 10 kinds of people, those that understand Binary and those that don't. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 05:42:56 PDT
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