Sand Lake Rec
Navigation & North Woods Weather
The winter seminar: charts, compasses, and why the wind does that.
The off-season course for people who got hooked. We meet in the warming house in February — woodstove going, lake frozen twenty inches deep outside the window — and cover the theory there's no time for in summer: reading a chart and a topo, dead reckoning for the fog, the anatomy of a Minnesota cold front, and planning a Boundary Waters route you'll actually paddle in July.
Graduates get first registration priority for the summer's guided BWCA trips.
What we cover
- Chart & map reading
- Compass and dead reckoning
- Front anatomy and forecasting
- BWCA route planning
2026 sessions
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Thursdays, February 5–267–9 pm