Boundary Waters Podcast Ep. 104 – 16 Days in Quetico

Over the summer of 2023 Aurora Gallagher spent 16 days canoeing and camping in Quetico Provincial Park as part of a YMCA Camp Menogyn trip. Aurora shares what the experience was like, from one week in, then two weeks, and finally how it felt to return home. It’s all here–complete with foraging, fishing, traversing over multiple beaver dams, making blueberry crisp and all of the lessons learned along the way.

Quetico Blueberry crisp, baked over a fire.

There’s also a new segment of Keep it Wild, our monthly check-in with the US Forest Service. This month’s topics are augers in the Wilderness and summer jobs in the BWCAW.

Boundary Waters Podcast is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Staci Drouillard