Dick Swenson probably has told the story a thousand times, about a canoe trip he and his brother were on out of Ely back in 1960. They had come upon another group on a portage up near Knife Lake, ...
Russell Wicklund, right, from Forest Lake, Minn., leads a crew of female Scouts from the state of Virginia as they leave from the Northern Tier Adventure Camp near Ely into the Boundary Waters Canoe ...