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Name: Nicole Clarke
E-Mail: nicole_DoT_clarke_AT_dhcmail_DoT_com
From: Minneapolis, MN
Date: Tue Jul 6 20:29:37 1999
Visits: Camped there many times

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There's nothing better! We spent four wonderful days with friends and lived through the bugs, rain, and severe weather that tore through over the 4th holiday weekend. What a show! We can't wait to get back for more...

Name: Ben Clarke
E-Mail: benclarke_AT_dynamark_DoT_com
From: Mpls, MN USA
Date: Tue Jul 6 19:06:59 1999
Visits: Camped there many times

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Returned from a 4 day trip of severe storms, lots of rain, beautiful campsites, great fishing, and quite peace. Having to leave, I was already longing to stay. Tread lightly and leave no trace...

Name: Terri
E-Mail: Poorwendl
From: Indpls.,IN USA
Date: Mon Jul 5 18:01:08 1999
Visits: Camped there many times

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Just returned from my trip. I'm already thin and planning for the next. BWCAW and Quetico are beautiful. You never know what the weather's going to be or what hazards you'll be up against. But I always return home with peace in my soul and a longing for the next experience.

Name: Brian (Rockhead to fellow canoers)
E-Mail: BSouthport_AT_aol_DoT_com
From: Indianapolis, IN, USA
Date: Sat Jul 3 16:54:23 1999
Visits: Stayed there many times

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I'm at work, in a hospital lab, perusing my EMail when I came upon your site (OK. I wasn't really working and it's a Saturday and things are slow in Cardiology). The Sunset Video and the Loon wave file hit my psyche like a six pound Smallmouth: I sprayed myself with Deet, tried to zip open the lab door and looked around for my fishing rods and the latrine shovel. Great site. We leave again on the seventh of July for our annual visit to the greatest park in the world. Thank you, people of Canada. Thanks, also to a very large walleye that made my day once before.

Name: Scott, Adam & Dan
E-Mail: rfors_AT_clear_DoT_lakes_DoT_com
From: Northfield, MN USA
Date: Sat Jul 3 15:42:37 1999
Visits: Camped there many times

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Great Informational site! We will be heading up to the BWCA in a few weeks--can't wait!!

Name: Luke Ludwig
E-Mail: ludwigl_AT_mrs_DoT_umn_DoT_edu
From: Lake George, MN USA
Date: Fri Jul 2 22:21:06 1999
Visits: Camped there a few times

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The BWCA is a great place to find peace and adventure all in the same trip!! I've been there the last two summers and am heading back for my third trip tomorrow. I can't wait for canoe country!

Name: Al G.
E-Mail: don't rmember my e-mail address
From: Mounds View, Minnesota
Date: Thu Jul 1 19:55:16 1999
Visits: Stayed there a few times

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I've gone there three times with my church youth group. In the summers of 1981, 1982, and 1985. The trip in 1981 when I was 17 was the best weatherwise. No rain at all. Warm comfortable temps and calm winds everyday. I remember canoeing across Brule Lake on the final day when the wind did kick up some and storm clouds rolled in. Whitecaps were crashing over the sides of the conoe. The most memorible and favorite trip was in 1982. I met Gina on that trip. I sure do miss her. It rained like mad everyday except for the second day out. Some of the lakes from that trip were Oyster, Hustler,and Lynx. I din't know Gina when the trip began but afterwards I was crazy about her. We went out for a year and a half after that. The 1985 trip was the least memorible of them all. I can't recall any lakes we were on that year. It rained so bad that we left a day early. Everything was soaked and we could even start a fire to cook. It's been 14 years since I've been there and I sure do miss it. A part of me was left up there. I appreciate the quiet beuty and the solitude. It's as peacefull as any of the camping trips that I've taken in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. I'd like to go back there too. I hope to visit the BWCA very soon. It is truly a Minnesota treasure.

Name: david
E-Mail: none yet
From: milwaukee wi usa
Date: Wed Jun 30 12:33:34 1999
Visits: Camped there a few times

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i just got back went in the greenwood/wiawag rivers through kawnipi and the falls chain/ a word of advice if your heading this way talk to outfitters or better yet someone from the park about conditions the forest fire damage from about six years back can make the going rough or impossible(i mean IMPOSSIBLE)dont even bother with anything between kenny lake and mack for a few years anyway it was another incredible trip/ great site here i'll get an address on here as soon as i get one

Name: John Seng
E-Mail: forest_AT_psci_DoT_net
From: Jasper, IN
Date: Mon Jun 28 17:31:24 1999
Visits: Camped there many times

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I have visited Quetico for 20 consecutive years. We will be leaving in 30 days for the first of this year's 2 trips. I can't wait to get back to the northwoods. This is a great website.

Name: TY PHIPPS
E-Mail: TY_DoT_W_DoT_PHIPPS_AT_WORLDNET_DoT_ATT_DoT_NET
From: KNOXVILLE . TN
Date: Sun Jun 27 12:00:48 1999
Visits: Camped there a few times

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THANKS, GIVES ME THE FEVER TO REURN.

Name: Chris Temple
E-Mail: wearend_AT_earthlink_DoT_net
From: South Bend, IN
Date: Thu Jun 24 22:33:40 1999
Visits: Camped there a few times

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Fantastic web site! It brought back many fun memories of my trip there in the summer of '87 with Dad, John, Mr. Powers, Doug, Rob, Trampus, Mike, and Maynard. :)

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