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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: December 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. BLOG 80. A Smart Survival Kit For the Northwoods. BLOG 80. A Smart Survival Kit For the Northwoods. Stuff happens: Steel River, Ontario. Space doesn’t permit details other than to say that in my haste, I became hopelessly lost. And lost in an Oregon rain forest is a very big deal. Stuff Happens: Kopka River, Ontario. A Thermos of coffee and lunch. A Silva Ranger compass.
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: Discover the Trezona Trail
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Monday, June 15, 2015. Discover the Trezona Trail. The terrain which encircles Ely’s Miners Lake. A former iron ore pit). Ely Arts and Heritage Center. Columbines and Dwarf Dogwood. Can you see the old man's face in this tree? A pale pink wild rose. Orange and Yellow Hawkweed. Canada Mayflower (top) and Dwarf Dogwood (bottom). Secret Creek ;). See you around the bend! I'm the Marketing Director, Cata...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: April 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Something You Don't See Everyday. I stopped on the side of the road on the way to work to take a few shots of this the other morning. Today on my way into Ely, there was someone at this spot taking pictures, too. Keep an eye out for interesting things in nature no matter where you are. Each day there can be something new. Wednesday, April 16, 2014. This video was shot near a...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: September 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Friday, September 26, 2014. BLOG 76. The Real Dangers of Wilderness Travel Aren't What You think! BLOG 76. The Real Dangers of Wilderness Canoe Travel Aren’t What You Think! But in retrospect, our problems were due more to our inexperience than to real dangers that lurked around the bend. I envisioned miles of huge, pounding rapids (there were! The good news is that we would use Royalex canoes which ...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: February 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Sunday, February 23, 2014. BLOG 64. WATER CONTAINERS FOR THE LONG HAUL. BLOG 64.Water Containers For The Long Haul. My attitude changed when friends and I began to canoe American rivers. Here, the choice was to carry our water or purify it. On desert rivers like the Green, Little Missouri and Rio Grande, we settled the sediment with alum (see Blog #9/Western Water or the 25. It must fit seamlessly in...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: November 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Saturday, November 29, 2014. BLOG 79. Canoe Trip Ethics. BLOG 79. Canoe Trip Ethics. A bright summer morning on any river. A crowd of canoers prepare for a downstream float. It's 9:30 am and confusion abounds. Weren't we supposed to shuttle at 9? You say the shuttle's gone? I didn't hear any announcement. How'm I gonna get my car to Reedsville landing? They say we'll be done by four.". A noon lunch i...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: Winter in the Northland
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Winter in the Northland. We needed snow, it was looking bare around here for skiers, snowshoers, and winter campers. Now we've got a perfect amount for the trails. The pike are biting on frozen ciscos and the occasional light northern sucker live minnow. They are still visiting decoys in the darkhouses, too. Until the cold front dropped by early Sunday. 105 N Central Ave.
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: June 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. BLOG 71. Best Wilderness Canoeing Footwear I've Found. BLOG 71. Best Wilderness Canoeing Footwear I’ve Found. If you want to start an argument on your next wilderness canoe trip, just float the subject of boots. Everyone has his or her own ideas what’s best, and bantering will go hot into the night. Wading boots with knee-high, neoprene/Gore-texsock waders. This combo is ver...
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog: May 2014
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Piragis Northwoods Company Boundary Waters Blog. Stay in touch with Your Friends in the Great Northwoods. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. BWCA Trip [the year of the frogs] by Renee. A young repeat-tripper's journal:. Chapter 1: The Drive to Ely. Chapter 2: Put in Lake 1. When we got to Lake One, Mom and I found out that taking the gear off the car was hard with just the two of us. As we were putting into the water we saw some ladies taking pictures and we asked them to take a picture of us. Everyone we passed g...