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.

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.

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

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.

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