Blane Klemek Outdoors: Greeting gray jays at the Boundary Waters

Blane Klemek Outdoors: Greeting gray jays at the Boundary Waters

I recently joined a group of friends for our annual winter camping and fishing trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness. There were six of us this year. Sometimes, it’s as many as seven or as few as four or five. We gather in Grand Marais on a chosen late-March Thursday morning at Subway, have a quick bite to eat, and head up the Gunflint Trail in a procession of trucks loaded with our pulks and gear, full bellies and plenty of enthusia…