Quetico Adventures captures the exhilaration of trekking, camping and fishing in the over 1 million square miles of one of North America's remotest wilderness areas. Mead's experience extends more than a quarter century. In addition to the adventure, this book also offers an extensive discussion of outdoor skills that can make your experience successful. Tim Mead began camping and fishing more than 70 years ago with his father in northern Michigan. In the intervening years, he has continually honed his outdoor skills and adventures into Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park have played a key role in his development as an outdoorsman. Mead's articles and photographs have appeared in a wide range of international, national and regional magazines. He is a Past President of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Both organizations have recognized Mead's work with Excellence in Craft awards.

Have you ever been on a real wilderness adventure? Have you ever wanted to go but didn't know where to start? Have you ever just been curious as to what it would really be like? Then this book is for you! Come along as the author, an experienced fisherman, but a canoeing and camping novice, joins three buddies on an eight-day odyssey, canoeing, camping, and fishing in the Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, bordering the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). He fumbles his way along, learning lessons the hard way while discovering the beauty and serenity of a true wilderness that can be tranquil and soothing one day, violent and angry the next.

Good food can be lightweight, convenient and delicious! Feast on Adventure guides you through the world of freeze-dried, dehydrated, and instant foods. Learn how to dream up meals for your own adventures, or choose from over 40 field-tested, delectable, lightweight recipes sure to wow on your next escapade. These meals are simple to prepare, require minimal tools, and leave little to clean up. Customize any dish to manage your personal dietary requirements, whether gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, vegetarian, low sodium, and so on.

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.

"The year 2009 marked the Centennial anniversary of Quetico Provincial Park, a 4,760 sq.km. (1,800 sq.mi) area west of Lake Superior and north of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This magnificent landscape of over 600 lakes in the heart of North America is linked by an intricate web of rivers and trails, and forms one of the greatest paddling paradises on Earth. Let this book be an inspiration to planning your own adventure into Quetico's benevolent spirit."--Pub. desc.

Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.