People would always ask me if I was afraid of bears out in solo wilderness trips.
The answer was no, and that I was more concerned about bumping into the wrong two legged animal out in the middle of nowhere.
This was a story of campers harrassed and threatened in the very rural BWCA Wilderness on the MN Ontario border.
Five Ely, Minn., adults and a juvenile are being investigated on suspicion of terrorizing campers and canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness earlier this month. The group was arrested shortly after midnight Aug. 8 when…
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It was reported in other stories that they were firing guns at night out on the lake and threatening to kill campers from the dark of night.