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‘Backpacking Gear’ From Centuries Past
Always trying to lighten that load as you plan your next trip? Check out what our forebears had to haul along on theirs…
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UpNorthica Video: Hudson Bay Bound
Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren both share an appreciation for wilderness tripping to the BWCA. Now they’re paddling a little further. Check out UpNorthica’s exclusive video. MORE
Following the Route of the Coureurs de Bois
Starting late April, Mike Ranta will be following the ghost-steps of the French Voyageurs. MORE
Gallery of Paddles From Around The World
Check out this gallery of illustrated paddle designs… and find a new favorite!
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Video: 1,100-Year Old Canoe Unearthed in Florida
An ancient 40-ft dugout canoe has been excavated from a small island in Florida – ten years after it was discovered.
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Filming The Singing Wilderness
Filmmaker Peter Olsen has been lugging loads of camera equipment into the Boundary Waters for the past five years. Winter is next on the list. Oh, and he brings a tent and some grub too.
UpNorthica Reads: A Place In the Woods
We’re inspired by people who uproot themselves from the normal cadence of life to carve out their own livelihood in the woods. Lucky!
Helen Hoover, and her husband, Adrian left their busy Chicago lives to live in a cabin off the Gunflint Trail. In A Place in the Woods, Helen chronicles their first year of surviving in the woods with a clarity that causes you to feel like you’re at her table, hot homemade bread in hand.
Oldest Native American Birch Bark Canoe Discovered
Located in a barn in the quaint town of Penryn, United Kingdom, the oldest birch bark canoe known has been found. The Native American canoe originated in Canada and was shipped to Britain sometime after 1776 by Lieutenant John Enys to his estate. The descendants of Mr. Enys contacted the National Maritime Museum to inspect what they suspected might be a valuable artifact.
UpNorthica Reads: Trapping the Boundary Waters
We just wrapped up an engaging story from author, Charles Ira Cook Jr., and his year long excursion into the Boundary Waters.
A complete novice, he sets out in the spring of 1919 to explore and trap with his boyhood friend. Parts of the region are not even well mapped. Undaunted, they take off from the town of Winton and explore up through Prairie Portage and east of Knife Lake. Not long after, his friend gets homesick and leaves. Charlie then set out on his own, sometimes aided by other trappers and traders. He was familiar with hunting, however it is pretty remarkable how he embraced living and surviving for a year in the woods. He wisely aligns himself with others more familiar with bush craft than he.
Archaeology of Boundary Waters Enters New Chapter
Did you know your next campsite in the Boundary Waters may be near the quarry or workshop of a group of people from the Late-Paleo period? We’re talking 10,000 years ago.
Archaeologists are just beginning to tap into northern Minnesota pre-history, piecing together who the first people were in the Boundary Waters. How did they live and travel? Why where they attracted to the regions stone? How did they make their tools and what where they used for? These are just a handful of questions combined archaeologists from the USFS, Superior National Forest, Minnesota Historical Society, Grand Portage National Monument and St. Cloud State University are trying to bring to light.
And now they are revealing their amazing findings to the public.
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