Mama's Basecamp

With the goal of seeing Lower Basswood Falls and permits unavailable for our three target entry points, we defaulted to a still available pe...

  Welcome to our warmest ever Labor Day Weekend canoe trip in the Sylvania Wilderness. Typically our Labor Day trips feature cold nights. We...

We packed up and headed north for our first canoe camping trip of 2023 with new canoeists along for the trip. Typically our May trips to the...

My husband, our teenage daughter and I set aside 10 days to spend together canoe tripping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in August...

The Bittersweet Lakes is located w ithin the  Northern Highland -American Legion State Forest, in Vilas County, Wisconsin. On a hot, July mo...

Setting off for four days in the Sylvania Wilderness, my husband looked forward to retesting our gear set, our daughter hoped for a cell sig...

Capturing our precious family canoe tripping memories is one of my favorite things to do. As working parents know, finding the time to do th...

  Those of you who have visited the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) know that summer trips include cold and rainy days. You come to expect...

You waste weekends in the summer accomplishing obligatory chores. You think to yourself, "It's summer, I can camp and paddle anytim...

Our daughter Ams is a teenager now. Everything is boring. On canoe trips it's always a fight. She wants to sit in the middle seat and fi...

With limited dispersed camping areas open in Wisconsin due to the Covid19 pandemic, we set off for a  closer-to-home destination. We went ...

The Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area offers remote camping on campsites accessible only by water. Located in Northern Wisconsin near Mer...

Cold snowy days are great times for reminiscing about summer days gone by. Our 2019 four day canoe trip to celebrate the 4th of July seems...

Seeking solitude and a large dose of vitamin N, our family decided to enter the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) from a relatively unpopu...

Preferences being what they are,  it can be a ch allenge to plan lightweight, nonperishable menus for a group. In our family, I do not eat...

There is nothing like a long, cold winter to make us ache for the warmer, carefree days of summer. Finally, the weather had become right f...

Kicking off our 2018 trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), our family entered the BWCA at Entry Point #16, Moose/Portage River. W...

I still love everything about canoe tripping, even the preparations. Finding lightweight foods safe to carry without refrigeration...

Ams went off to Girl Scout Camp. With a weekend to do anything our hearts desired, my husband and I took our first ever canoe trip in the ...

As Northerners do, our family dreams of the distant springtime through the icy season. When it finally arrives, we begin our spring ritual...