We paddled from Boundary Waters Entry Point #37 to Amber Lake to camp a few nights - seeing a number of people on the way in to the halfway point, but never seeing another person once we set up our basecamp on Amber Lake. We used Lake Polly as a halfway stopover (about 9 miles) to camp on the way in and on the way out. With physically fit adults on a mission, the trip to Amber Lake could be done in a day with an early start (about 18 - 19 miles of paddling and portages). With a family and at my level of fitness, a halfway stopover turned out to be a good plan.
On this trip, we climbed over beaver dams, sloshed through the mud, stumbled over rocks and roots, admired the stark beauty of the burn area between Lake Polly and Kawishiwi Lake, and lounged alongside the beach at Amber Lake. We acted silly, playing hours of Truth or Dare and Uno with our 7 year old. We listed to the wind and rain rattling and tapping our tent. We smelled the lake ripening in our shoes, cedar burning in the fire pit, and, yes, we even smelled the well-filled thunder box at Amber Lake. For a few short days we were just where we wanted to be, with just the people we wanted to be with, and it felt like a little slice of heaven.
Eagles everyday on this trip.
Camping the night before entry, getting excited to enter the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in the morning.
Our crew enjoying a rest break along the river along the portage between Koma Lake and Malberg Lake
Petroglyph on Fishdance Lake
If you want to read more about the trip you are welcome to checkout our blog post http://mamasbasecamp.blogspot.com/2015/08/boundary-waters-2015-kawishiwi-lake-ep.html.
On this trip, we climbed over beaver dams, sloshed through the mud, stumbled over rocks and roots, admired the stark beauty of the burn area between Lake Polly and Kawishiwi Lake, and lounged alongside the beach at Amber Lake. We acted silly, playing hours of Truth or Dare and Uno with our 7 year old. We listed to the wind and rain rattling and tapping our tent. We smelled the lake ripening in our shoes, cedar burning in the fire pit, and, yes, we even smelled the well-filled thunder box at Amber Lake. For a few short days we were just where we wanted to be, with just the people we wanted to be with, and it felt like a little slice of heaven.
Eagles everyday on this trip.
Camping the night before entry, getting excited to enter the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in the morning.
Our crew enjoying a rest break along the river along the portage between Koma Lake and Malberg Lake
Petroglyph on Fishdance Lake
If you want to read more about the trip you are welcome to checkout our blog post http://mamasbasecamp.blogspot.com/2015/08/boundary-waters-2015-kawishiwi-lake-ep.html.
