Entries Tagged as 'Snowshoeing'
Adirondack Descent
Headed into northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), Gustave Axelson of Men’s Journal writes about the new (but old-school) trend of winter camping without all the high tech gear: toboggans, canvas tents, wool jackets, and “three growlers of India pale ale.”
“We were embarking on a four-day winter camping trip into the boreal heart of the Boundary Waters. But instead of the finest high-tech Gore-Tex parkas and windproof mountaineering tents, we were outfitted with technology from a century gone. I was here to try out a new style of winter camping, which is really an old style of winter camping called snow walking.”
Winter Snowshoeing
Greg Breining of The New York Times travels to northern Minnesota’s Kempton Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) to to rent a cabin, snowshoe with family and friends, and look for wolf tracks. He also is an accomplished writer:
“Winter strips the wilderness of color: white snow, gray ice, the Dalmatian spots of paper birches. The somber green of pine and spruce and claret stems of red osier are vivid in comparison. Simple forms stand in high relief: a black pool of open water flanked by snow, daggers of ice plunging from slaty rocks, low sun, long shadows. The effect is striking, as austere and beautiful as an Ansel Adams print.”
His book Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters — Quetico Wilderness will be published by Minnesota Historical Society Press later in the year.
photo credit: Jeff Pang
