Ranger wrote on Jul 27^th, 2016 at 2:23pm:

I'm just now reading about the big storms that swept through the BWCA and Quetico last week. Looks like two people died on Basswood:   (You need to Login or Register I know that Jimbo and his party were and still are in Quetico. Hopefully they weathered the storm just fine. Anyone here experience the storm first hand? Or any news of widespread damage on portages, etc.?

I guess Jim and I survived.  We estimated wind speed on our campsite on Cirrus to be between 60 and 70 mph, but we were in a protected spot so had no real issues.  Later a couple of rangers related the tragedy further south.

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