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Sunset fire along a wilderness lake shore

Fig. 1Sunset fire along a wilderness lake shore

Photo: Reid Priedhorsky · CC BY-SA 3.0

Landform

A labyrinth of glacial lakes, granite portages, and boreal pine on the Minnesota–Ontario line. Canoe country with almost no roads.

Field note

The ice left ten thousand lakes and a thin skin of jack pine and spruce. You portage a canoe over glacially scoured granite. Nights are loons and a sky that still has stars.

A private leaf

Prints from Boundary Waters


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

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