>>2783640I think what OP is getting at is the weird place that the BWCAW occupies in the minds of Midwesterners. It's like THE place that everybody talks about going. If you've been there you're a real outdoorsman. If you've portaged a canoe to a lake with no road access you're truly elite, a modern coureur des bois.
Fuck mosquitoes though. I moved to the desert.