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CREATE A PLAN: Carefully review your maps to identify several alternate travel routes if you feel you need to evacuate the area. Stay as close as possible to larger lakes that can provide a buffer between you and a fire.

PROTECT YOURSELF: Stay calm if the path of a fire endangers you. Paddle far from shore and, wearing your personal flotation device, tip over your canoe. Move under the hull and wait for the danger to pass.

Wilderness Safety

Although membership in the Boy Scouts of America peaked in the 1970s, the organization’s admonition to “Be Prepared” is as valid today as when the Boy Scouts were founded in 1910. The alternate point of view, “it can’t happen to me” doesn’t work very well in the wilderness. Risk is an integral part of a wilderness expedition. Risks associated with isolation, tough physical challenges, adverse weather conditions, and lack of rapid communications are inherent in a visit to the BWCAW. At all times, exercise caution, use common sense, and consider the following tips: