Lily Burrows

Lily Burrows My name is Lily and I’m so excited to be joining the Chik-Wauk team as the summer intern! I’m originally from Minneapolis, MN, and have spent the last couple years in Northfield, MN getting my bachelors degree in history. My historical fields...

Hugh Magill

Hugh Magill Hugh Magill first learned about the Boundary Waters in the early 1970s through Sigurd Olson’s writings. My first BWCA canoe trip came in 1980, paddling the Granite River, Saganaga, and Seagull. My wife, Nancy, took her first trip out of Ely in the early...

John Fredrikson

JOHN FREDRIKSON John and his wife Mindy have owned and operated the Gunflint Lodge since 2016. John grew up on a farm in eastern North Dakota and attended North Dakota State University. For their first trip into the BWCAW in the 1990s, John built a cedar strip canoe....

Patti Craddock

Patti Craddock Is ecstatic and proud to call the Gunflint Trail her home, now a year-round resident with her husband John Craddock, on the west end of Poplar Lake. Patti and John’s first outdoor adventures together involved the north shore and BWCA while students at...
Larry Roepke

Larry Roepke

Larry Roepke I first came to the Gunflint Trail as a young boy in 1958. I never stopped. Nine years ago my wife Marcia and I built our cabin on Loon Lake. Three years ago we both retired and moved in full-time with our dog Ursa. In 1972 I enlisted in the USS Navy and...