Join crew leaders Lucas Raudabaugh and Valentin Povarchuk on a backpacking trip to maintain the Brule Lake Trail. This is a beautiful trail through mature forests, leading to the tallest mountain in Minnesota - Eagle Mountain. With a relatively short hike in to the base campsite, this will be a great trip for new volunteers interested in helping to maintain access to beautiful wild lands of Superior National Forest.

Crew members will depart from the Sioux-Hustler Hiking Trailhead, backpacking the full 32-mile loop over three days. The crew will take survey notes on trail condition and each carry one tool to do some acute trail maintenance as required while hiking. The goal is to have a great time and come back with trail insights to help other crews plan their exact work areas.

Crew members will depart from the Sioux Hustler Trailhead (BWCAW EP #15) early Thursday morning and backpack 12.5 miles up the eastern side of the Sioux Hustler Trail to the Emerald Lake campsite, where we’ll basecamp for two nights. Friday and Saturday we will clear trail with saws and loppers east or west of our campsite, depending on the results of a survey trip the prior weekend.

Crew members will carpool to the Powwow Trailhead (BWCAW EP #86) on Thursday afternoon. We will disperse car camp near the trailhead. Friday morning, depart trailhead at 9 am and backpack 11.2 miles along the southern loop of the Powwow Trail to Superstition Lake, where we’ll make base camp for three nights. The goal is to clear trail with saws, loppers, and root slayers along the Superstition Lake shoreline.

Crew members will depart from the Powwow Hiking Trailhead (EP #86), backpacking in either 1 (Isabella) or 6 (Pose Lake) miles. Exact location will be confirmed as trail conditions are assessed. The crew will base camp for 2 nights and clear trail near camp using a variety of tools (hand saws, loppers, root slayers).

Crew members will carpool to Lake Jeanette Campground on Wednesday afternoon where we will set up late and car camp for the night. Early the next morning we will depart the Sioux Hustler trailhead and backpack 12 miles along the western side of the loop to the Pageant Lake campsite where we will basecamp for three nights. We will clear the trail with saws, loppers, and root slayers near Pageant and Range Lake.