This event is hosted by the Minnesota Rovers Outdoor Club. For a link to the presentation, go to https://mnrovers.org/contact-us/?directed_to=virtual-meeting and select "Virtual Tuesday meetings" from the drop-down menu. After you submit the form, you'll receive an email reply with the Zoom link.

Over 200 miles of hiking and backpacking trails wind through Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, from day-hike distances to the sixty-five mile Border Route Trail.

This presentation will introduce resources for hiking, backpacking, and trail conservancy across the BWCAW; an overview of how volunteers have kept wilderness trails on the map; and the recent Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC) focus of bringing back the BWCAW Powwow Trail from the ashes of the 2011 Pagami Creek megafire.

BWAC, an all-volunteer Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2002 by Martin Kubik, has a mission to preserve existing historic trails in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. BWAC recruits and organizes volunteers for guided work trips to BWCAW trails, and advocates for wilderness trail funding to keep trails maintained and open.

Susan Pollock is a wilderness paddler and BWCAW solo backpacker. She is a crew leader and active volunteer with the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee. She continues to be replenished by the forest and by the people she has the privilege to hike with, and enjoys introducing others to backpacking and trail advocacy.

Debra Kuehne, Minnesota Rover and BWAC volunteer, will join the presentation to talk about her experience as a trail clearing volunteer with BWAC.