Breast Cancer Survivors
The Boundary Waters Experience is proud to introduce a community building, health-giving, life-affirming experience for breast cancer survivors.
Mission
Breast cancer brings our participants together. The community built during our trips keeps them together. The BWX strives to provide hope, encouragement, and tools to survivors and their families. Our experiences focus on living, rather than on the disease. After a diagnosis of breast cancer, survivors learn how to embrace life again. The wilderness helps you feel alive. We are paddling toward physical and emotional recovery.
Why do we paddle?
While on the trail with other survivors you can expect to share life stories, build meaningful community, engage with nature, exercise, and enjoy ample time for introspection. Naturally, you can also expect all of the wonder of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness with its 1.2 million acres of land, 1,200 lakes, and zero traffic, houses, iPods, or televisions.
Can I do it?
Yes. Paddling and camping do not require great athletic ability. The BWX works to providing customized routes and appropriate physical challenges for each group (our shortest routes are less than two miles long and our longest are over eighty miles long).
The BWX provides a highly qualified and experienced wilderness guide to host you and your groups’ conversations. We do all the preparation, including food, equipment, permits, and adventure plan, so you can fully live into the experience. Simply put, we provide everything you can think of as well as all of the things that you wouldn’t.
