Volunteers Needed to Help Open Banadad Ski Trail
Join one of this year's trail maintenance crews clearing the summer's accumulation of brush and downed trees along the Banadad Ski Trail.
The Banadad, located along the Gunflint Trail in Northeast Minnesota is the BWCA's longest Ski Trail. Most of the trail runs through the BWCA, a Wilderness area, where the use of power equipment for maintenance is prohibited. As a result to get the trail open for skiing each year requires some 600-650 hours of hand labor.
Your help is needed! Weekend Ski Trail Maintenance Trips are scheduled October 27-29 and November 17-19.
Lodging, breakfasts and lunches, trail tools and supervision are provided on all trips. You provide work clothing, sleeping bags and your labor. A minimal fee is charged to cover cost of food (breakfast and lunches, dinner on your own) and two nights lodging.
Cash donations also accepted. Check should be made payable to the Banadad Ski Trail Committee. Sign-up now for this year's trips! I AM INTERESTED SIGNING UP FOR THE FOLLOWING 2006 WORK WEEKEND TRAIL CLEARING TRIP _filled Call 800-322-8327 to reserve your space on the trail crew View on Web at www.boundarycountry.com/trailwork.html
November 17-19 Work Weekend (Cost $60) 2 days/2 nights -work on Saturday and Sunday AM
BANADAD SKI TRAIL COMMITTEE
11 Poplar Creek Dr, Grand Marais, MN 55604
Email- bct@boundarycountry.com
With seven inches of snow on the Trail, the Minnehaha Academy's girls ski team spent Saturday opening the westend of the Banadad. According to coach Anne Rykken, the team cleared brush from the westend trailhead to about a kilometer beyond the Dawkins bridge. The next day the crew moved down to the eastern end of the trail and cleared along the Lace Lake Trail.
The Gunflint Trail's first snow started to fall yesterday. As of today there is two inches of snow on the ground. More snow is predicted over the next three days. If you are planning to ski bring your rock skis. Look for temperatures in the 20-37 degree range.The Gunflint Trail's first snow started to fall yesterday. As of today there is two inches of snow on the ground. More snow is predicted over the next three days. If you are planning to ski bring your rock skis. Look for temperatures in the 20-37 degree range. Image taken October 12, 2006 at the Poplar Creek Guesthouse's Banadad Ski TrailHead.
Next time you headout up the hill out of Grand Marais along the Gunflint you will be greeted by the newly repainted Grand Marais' water tower welcoming you to the GunflintTrail.
Boundary Country Trekking, which own and operate Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B, grooms and maintains the 45 kilometer Banadad and Adjoining Ski Trails. The Banadad is the BWCA's longest tracked ski trail. The Trail is in the center of the 180-kilometer Gunflint Nordic Trail System. Getting the Banadad open each year for skiing require some 450-500 hours of hand labor. Volunteers recruited and supervised by Boundary Country Trekking contribute most of this work.