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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. Most Rovers are familiar with the Border Route Trail, which Rovers built and help maintain through our Border Route Trail Association. 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 BWAC focus of bringing back the BWCAW Powwow Trail from the ashes of the 2011 Pagami Creek megafire.

The Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC) is an all-volunteer Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2002, with 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 WCAW solo backpacker. She has been a crew member, crew leader, and is now president of the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee. She is 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.