Need suggestions for a 4 day hang in Northen MN or NW Wisconsin

[jaydavis]

Looking to hang Oct 13-18 and wanting something new. Been to George Crosby a few times and loved it, looking for something similar. Would prefer a reservation site and a as remote as possible with a 2 to 4 mile hike.

[jaydavis]

Coming from Mason City IA. Was kind of looking at the POW WOW Trail?????

[alifeoutdoors]

Current condition of the Pow Wow Trail:
http://bwac.smugmug.com/Outdoors/Pow...3593&k=FpPgR8w

[Shug]

Check the Superior Hiking Trail...runs through Crosby. So many great sections. No permits needed. Free!
Pow Wow is not recommended currently unless you truly want a rough hike.

[heyyou]

You, any you, can make a difference by cutting on some of those deadfall trees. It isn't someone else's job, it is every trail user's job. That is what I did, not knowing what to do, but knowing that I would learn. At big box stores, you can buy a little, Stanley Tool Box saw for $10. It will cut well if you keep it out of the dirt. Yes, it is labor, but you will get both stronger and smarter about how to cut in order to save more effort. A pry bar makes a big difference, but you don't need a solid steel digging bar. Look for some larger diameter, thick wall, hollow pipe, which is almost as strong as solid, but much lighter. You can do it, and it will make you feel good. Siege tactics are just perseverance, you just keep coming back to do more of the same. You can't fix the world, but you can fix some of that trail, one tree at a time. When you are working on it, when someone else comes by, recruit them to help for a little bit. Some will like it so well, that they will come back to help. They just needed a nudge of someone showing them how to get started.

In the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson Arizona, there are two entities that cut deadfall trees, one is an informal group named Tom's Sawyers (the fictional Tom Sawyer conned his friends into painting the fence) and Ken. Ken works by himself, deep in the woods, clearing deadfall trees off of the trails.

Whatever you found attractive about the Pow Wow hike, can be repeated just by spending more time working on the same trail.

[Shug]

A bit more Pow wow intel.....

Pow Wow Trail......http://www.meetup.com/Friends-of-BWC...nts/160959252/
Pow Wow – the Wounded BWCA Trail/Year II

by Martin Kubik

Would you go in if you knew that you might not come out? The Forest Service built the Pow Wow Trail after the “BWCA Wilderness Act of 1978” was passed. Thirty three years later, the Pow Wow Trail nearly vanished in the inferno of the Pagami Creek Fire in 2011. Kubik speaks about the hikers’ ordeal on the Pow Wow last summer while they climbed over 1,200 treefalls blocking the trail. In this presentation you will be able to see how quickly nature takes over: scores of lost rock cairns, fireweed growing shoulder high, impenetrable wall of aspen going wild after the fire. Forest Service crews worked to resurrect the trail, but Martin Kubik shows that much more needs to be done. He offers simple and yet effective ideas on how to help to bring this BWCAW treasure trail back … so that hikers like you can enjoy the Pow Wow again.

Martin Kubik is the founder the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee and the Kekekabic Trail Club. He is a lifelong advocate for the BWCA trails, author of the “Guide to the Kekekabic Trail” and recipient of several environmental leadership and volunteer awards. He can be reached at [masked]

[alifeoutdoors]

You, any you, can make a difference by cutting on some of those deadfall trees. It isn't someone else's job, it is every trail user's job.

This is a fairly presumptuous post. Thanks.

[SirLips]

Northern MN? Hm... How does 1 million miles of wilderness and national forest sound? Can be as close or remote as you want to make it.

Boundry Waters Canoe Area. its as north as your going to get in MN and is MADE for this type of trip. Canoe in, Hike in, Snow shoe in... all can be done.

If your hiking...In addition to shorter trails to Eagle Mountain, Magnetic Rock, and Angleworm Lake, the Boundary Waters has several long-distance trails. The Border Route Trail runs east-west for over 60 miles (97 km) through the eastern BWCAW, following the ridges between the long border lakes such as Loon, South, and Rose. Eventually, a connection is planned from the eastern end of the Border Route Trail to the northern end of the Superior Hiking Trail. The Kekekabic Trail traverses the Boundary Waters from the Gunflint Trail on the east to Snowbank Lake on the west and is the only footpath through the center of the wilderness. Both the Border Route and the Kekekabic Trail are unofficially part of the longer North Country National Scenic Trail. Legislation in Congress is pending to make this designation official. There are also three longer loop trails in the Boundary Waters: the Pow Wow Trail, the Snowbank Trail, and the Sioux-Hustler Trail.

[jaydavis]

Thanks for all the info. Thinking about doing Britton Peak to Caribou Trail. Any suggestions on that section?

[The LumberJack]

check out midwest backpackers on facebook, HikingDad has set up SHT group hikes on september 26th and october 10th. great page!