Memorial Day BWCA - Missing Link Lake

Solo BWCA - Bingshick Lake

2010 Camping Recap

Another solid year outdoors in 2010. I still have several trip reports to catch up on:
- February BWCA (3); with Ben and Mark
- April Whitewater (2); me and the boys
- May BWCA (3); with Ben and our boys
- June Bighorn (3); me and the boys
- June Boot Lake (2); the boys and I visited my sister's family place
- July BWCA (3); with Mike, Mark, Pete and 10 kids!
- August Bighorn (2); with Chris and John
- September Carley SP (2); with Zach and our boys
- September Colorado (4); with Mike, Mark, Pete, and Bob Janosy

Same as 2009: 17 tent nights for the boys, 24 for me.

Bighorn River, Part Deux

One trip to the Bighorn wasn't enough this summer, so I booked a trip with my buddies John Welsh and Chris Schwartzbauer. Chris and I left Minneapolis after work on Wednesday and drove through to Chamberlain, SD. Welsh flew in to Rapid City from Buffalo, NY and we gathered him up late Thursday morning.

In Rapid City Chris bought a pontoon raft, so he could float the river. Dubbed the PAV (Personal Assault Vehicle), it made Chris an "individual killing unit" (thanks to Eric the Guide).

John practicing his casting the night before.
Deploying the PAV

"Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care!" Officer Barbrady

John lands a nice brown nymphing in the morning.

Chris rolled up when we stopped for lunch. It took a little bit for him to get used to the PAV program, but he got on it quickly.

Luxuriating in the wall tent. The bugs came out in force once the sun started going down.

Ready for a second day of fishing. Nice 'bow.

I forgot to take off my goofy headgear before the shot. This was a nice fish - Welsh f'd me up by telling me it was foul-hooked mid-fight (it most definitely wasn't).

BWCA - Brule Lake

One of the few times Pete's gravity-fed water filter was attended to.

Everybody watch Mr. Beckman change the tire!