As the planning begins for the 2016 Boundary Waters Expo, I thought I’d give a recap of this year’s inaugural event.
The Boundary Waters Expo was held at the Seagull Public Landing in mid June. It was highlighted by expert speakers, knowledgeable exhibitors, beautiful canoes, good friends, and perfect weather. We had a nice turnout of around 200-300 people, enough to fill the presentations but not so many that you couldn’t get one-on-one time with the speakers. While the event took a lot of time and effort to get together, in the end I thought it was a great success.
For info on the 2016 show, go to The Boundary Waters Expo or find us on Facebook.
Our 2015 Sponsors:
Camp Chow
Duluth Pack
Enlightened Equipment
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Frost River
St. Croix Canoes
The Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters
Stewart River Boatworks
Nemo Equipment
Seattle Sports
Sealskinz
Cooke Custom Sewing
Sanborn Canoe Company
Northstar Canoes
Nova Craft Canoe
Souris River Canoes
Radiant Spirit Gallery
The Gunflint Trail booth was front and center in the big tent.
Tom from Loon Lake will talk your ear off!
We had boats to demo from Nova Craft
Northstar Canoes
Stewart River Boatworks
St.Croix Canoes and (not pictured) Souris River.
Nemo Equipment brought a variety of tents and other innovative equipment
The Gunflint Trail’s own Camp Chow was at the show with their wonderful camping meals.
Eric Simula, Bearskin’s musher, presented about building bark canoes.
A highlight was personal paddling instruction from canoe legend Cliff Jacobson.
Cliff has agreed to be available for lessons throughout the entire expo next year.
Cliff also demonstrated portaging and gave a few tips.
Dan Cooke showed everyone how to rig a tarp. Watch out Dan, someone is sneaking up behind you!
The landing was full of great places for speakers to give their presentations.
Patti Johnson of the USFS arrived in style in a Forest Service Beaver. The pilot happily gave spectators a tour of his plane.
Voyageur Brewing Company stopped by and gave out free samples
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