Join crew leaders Lucas Raudabaugh and Valentin Povarchuk on a backpacking trip to maintain the Brule Lake Trail. This is a beautiful trail through mature forests, leading to the tallest mountain in Minnesota - Eagle Mountain. With a relatively short hike in to the base campsite, this will be a great trip for new volunteers interested in helping to maintain access to beautiful wild lands of Superior National Forest.
Crew members will set up camp at a USFS campground near the Brule Lake Trailhead and caravan to and from the trailhead each morning to clear trail. The goal is to clear the trail east of the Brule Lake Trailhead (FR 326) with saws, loppers, and root slayers.
Crew members will depart from the Sioux-Hustler Hiking Trailhead, backpacking the full 32-mile loop over three days. The crew will take survey notes on trail condition and each carry one tool to do some acute trail maintenance as required while hiking. The goal is to have a great time and come back with trail insights to help other crews plan their exact work areas.
We had so much fun with friends this weekend at our annual Boundary Waters Trails Kickoff event. This successful event included many opportunities for the 70 attendees to connect over a shared love for our wilderness areas.
We hosted a booth at the 2025 Canoecopia Paddlesports Expo in Madison, WI, to raise awareness of BWCAW wilderness trails and recruit volunteers for spring trips. Our volunteers engaged with hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts, sharing trail information and listening to personal stories about past BWCAW adventures.
Roughly 60 enthusiasts joined our presentation to talk trails, education, advocacy, and maintenance in our beloved BWCAW.
Thank you to Rovers Outdoor Club for having us for their weekly presentation.
“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”
