{"id":1493,"date":"2016-10-11T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/blogs\/news\/revisiting-superior-national-forest\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:38:44","slug":"revisiting-superior-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/blogs\/news\/revisiting-superior-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Retour \u00e0\u00a0: Superior National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4401-2_2048x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>With these last few months of 2016 dwindling down, we voyaged to one of our favorite places for some soul cleansing &amp;\u00a0fall foliage, an <a href=\"\/blogs\/news\/77221636-adventures-in-superior-national-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual trip<\/a> to the Boundary Water Canoe Area in Superior National Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ3841_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>The BWCA\u00a0is a protected wilderness area in northern Minnesota, bordering Canada just west of Lake Superior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4821_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Motorboats with up to 25 horsepower are allowed in some parts of the reserve, but the majority of the BWCA\u00a0is exclusive to canoes &amp; anything else paddle driven only.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ3925_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Over the span of a week we paddled &amp; portaged over 30 miles\u00a0from\u00a0<em>Fall Lake,<\/em>\u00a0Northbound\u00a0along the Canadian border, all the way\u00a0up past\u00a0<em>Basswood Falls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC3982_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>We were lucky enough to spot some pictographs created\u00a0hundreds of years ago by Native Americans occupying the region, most likely from the Sioux or the Ojibwe tribes.<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC3980_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite consistently sunny afternoons, some mornings dipped as low as a frigid 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Fortunately we had our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpen.com\/collections\/elite\/products\/g-pen-elite-for-ground-material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G Pen Elite<\/a> to start the days off right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4218_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Traces\u00a0of active wildlife were abundant all around us. Trees bearing the scars of a beaver&#8217;s work were just a stone&#8217;s throw from one of our campsites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4522_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4641_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Time shifts at different paces when you&#8217;re withdrawn &amp; disconnected from the turbulent drone of modern civilization, reminding us how valuable\u00a0a simple rejuvenating breath of fresh air can be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4749_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>The Gods of Boundary Water graciously\u00a0blessed us with some prime fishing allowing\u00a0us to\u00a0feast on the freshest Walleye fillets for many of our evenings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4806_99431363-d935-40e6-b791-4c7365da53d0_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe serenity of [a placid lake]\u00a0is a wondrous thing to behold, more precious than the gems coveted &amp; covered in platinum or gold&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4372_copy_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>One of the few places not affected by light pollution, the BWCA is an ideal place to view Aurora Borealis, aka the Northern Lights. This year the colliding electrons among the magnetospheric plasma\u00a0were the most vivid we&#8217;ve experienced yet. Another glorious venture for the books.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ3764_d0271c15-477d-41b2-bb63-195a2a5250e4_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC4014_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4063_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4103_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4048_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4823_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4697_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ4401-2_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With these last few months of 2016 dwindling down, we voyaged to one of our favorite places for some soul cleansing &amp;\u00a0fall foliage, an annual trip to the Boundary Water Canoe Area in Superior National Forest.\u00a0 The BWCA\u00a0is a protected wilderness area in northern Minnesota, bordering Canada just west of Lake Superior.\u00a0 Motorboats with up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}