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Paul Van Horn and Jeff Lotz paddle Paul's wood-canvas canoe in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          From a Katie McKenzie Photo

 

Wilderness Instructor Training: May, 2007-Page 2

(Fleeing the Flames in the BWCA)

 

Practicing in pairs--with 'human ballast' there to critique you--is one of the best ways to learn poling.
                                                                                                                  Katie McKenzie Photo
Practicing in pairs--with 'human ballast' there to critique you--is one of the
best ways to learn poling.

 

                                                                                                                  Katie McKenzie Photo
Where there's smoke . . .

 

Flame-illuminated clouds of smoke--right over there.
                                                                                                                  Katie McKenzie Photo
Flame-illuminated clouds of smoke--right over there.

 

Spotting a bomber, dropping-down to scoop a load of water from the lake.
                                                                                                          Katie McKenzie Photo
Spotting a bomber, dropping-down to scoop a load of water from the lake.

 

Sincere thanks to the good people of the Voyageur Outward Bounds School, who shuttled us out of harms-way, and offered us the very best of hospitality.
                                                Katie McKenzie Photo
Sincere thanks to the good people of the
Voyageur Outward Bound School, who
shuttled us out of harms-way, and offered
us the very best of hospitality.

 

This wood-canvas canoe is just too pretty.
                                                                                                                  Katie McKenzie Photo
 . . . Just too pretty.

 

WIT p. 1