Feb 21, 2021 | BWCAW, Community, Food & Drink
The Outward Bound Flapper has enough calories to keep you warm and get you through your afternoon adventures in a tasty, chewable-even-at 20-below bar you can make yourself. Used by expedition students and instructors at the Voyageur Outward Bound School in Ely, these...
Jan 25, 2021 | BWCAW, Community
For Jacki Fisher cross country skiing is a lifestyle. A way to “get out there and play!” And when one lives in the northwoods, a ‘get out there and play’ mentality is essential to doing anything more than simply surviving the winter. Consider any children you...
Jan 24, 2021 | BWCAW, From the Archives, Northwoods Ecology
The following article was written by Libby Fena, and originally featured in the 2004-2005 Ely Winter Times. The six of us skied quietly. Behind us, two teams of dogs followed. We had been following the trapper’s tracks for hours. The creek under our feet wound...
Dec 21, 2020 | BWCAW, Community, From the Archives, Hiking
This article was originally published in the 2008-2009 Ely Winter Times. 2008 editor’s note: The following is a blog entry I stumbled on when I was Googling something else. Better written than 90% of the blogs I’ve read, it stuck with me. I joined the blogspot...
Dec 21, 2020 | BWCAW, From the Archives
It’s 6:30 am on a January morning. Granite, the sled dog, pulls his tail away from his nose to look over the dog yard in hopes that his human is bringing soup. Chris, a dogsledding guide and Granite’s human for the season, has just arrived at the mushers’ shed and is...
Dec 21, 2020 | BWCAW, From the Archives
This article was originally published in the 2009-2010 edition of the Ely Winter Times. In 1970 a group of ambitious Ely citizens put together a winter event that was to become as big a draw in winter as the Blueberry Festival has become in summer. The booklet...
