This has been the year of the "Bears" here at the Lodge. We haven't had any reports of bear problems out in the Boundary Waters. However it is still a good idea to hang food packs or hide bear barrels away from the campsites as a precautionary step towards avoiding accidentally feeding the bears.
One of our guests shared a few pictures that display how he was hanging his food pack while on a recent visit to the Boundary Waters. Each year when he arrives I give him an extra 10 feet of bear rope and every year he manages to use all of the rope to hang his packs.
Today, we heard about a group paddlers that were crossing a portage when a bear cub ran past them crying for his mom. They dropped their packs and quickly jumped into their canoes and didn't go back for their gears until some of our guests tested the portage to prove that it was safe to return.
