Good idea and nice gift. Over to the right there under "Discover Wilderness" there's a link to "weather forecasting"  up

My wife got me a watch that tracks barometric pressure, has weather predictions, tracks elevation and has a compass.  It's quite handy for use in canoe country along with common weather tips like watching clouds and wind direction; face the wind and turn right 45 degrees and the low pressure is to your right to determine whether the weather system is coming or going.  East wind, rain is likely, north wind cold, south warm.  Also watch the cirrus clouds and for halos around the sun or moon.  It good to have a basic understanding of weather to help you plan your day or prepare hunker down.

starwatcher

i brought a radio back in June just to see what would it would pick up. good to know any change in wind direction
bonus: picked up am720 out of chicago and heard stanley cup game 2 from the north end of the park!

I haven't decided if I like knowing what the weather will be...or if it is just as well to be blissfully ignorant.   

A weather radio and sometimes a depth finder are the only gadgets I bring. It's nice to know what the low temps will be and the wind too.

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For our September trips, we've started taking a small transistor radio, used only in the evening around supper time to learn the forecast for the next day. CBC (Atikokan), WTIP (Gunflint Lake) and NPR (Ely) are three local stations we've been able to pick up depending upon where in the park we are. (Unfortunately, the CBC Atikokan station switches to a feed from Winnipeg after ?5? PM, so it's not that useful for a local forecast)

I think knowing that it could be pretty bad late in the year makes the good days extra special. And sometimes successfully surviving some bad days adds to the memories.

There's a higher risk/reward to October trips. I like'm.

db wrote on Nov 4^th, 2013 at 7:26am:

My eliminate? 

I was serious. I just couldn't throw away the good with the bad. I will freely admit however if it's nasty and I'm still smiling knowing how miserable I could be for a mistake like element/eliminate, I do grin a bit more. I never go looking for challenges I don't have a little experience with on vacation though.

I use to experiment on the first trip when I did two a year but these days I only get the one. Weather and Ma Nature are always the biggest variables currently. Ain't nothen better than lucky.

I know this is a "never again" thread but just to throw in a little balance on the fall tripping......especially for someone who may of thought about it but now thinking twice.

I have done 1 October trip before. It was to Algonquin and a more glorious trip could not be imagined. The colors were out in full, Indian summer had its hold on the entire week and the superlatives of how special it can be would be redundant.

A weather radio isn't a bad piece of gear to have late in the season. A day's fair warning of bad weather coming and you can make some adjustments to your trip plans.