Latourell's Resort & Outfitters

First of all, our local phone company is having some service issues today…nothing related to our July event issues. I have been in contact with them and they are trying to get it fixed. Feel free to email at [email protected] to contact us and I will try to get back to voicemails when I have access again.

Secondly here is the daily look at how good things are looking. No smoke or air quality conditions again as has been the case for about 11 days in a row.

Sunday Update from LaTourell’s:
As you can see by the photo, the air quality today is great here in Ely this morning. This is on Shagawa Lake on the north side of Ely. We have a new updated BWCA closure until Friday which also aligns with Quetico Park’s current closure. This was set to allow for everyone to have more advanced planning. We will be notifying everyone that is within that window of time and staying hopeful that future dates remain open. We’re hopeful that the improved conditions and the great resources that officials now have in place here allow for even more progress to be made in the coming days. Once we get through the next few days, we will provide more updates on what things look like moving forward following the direction of the officials in charge here. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that conditions are most likely not going to degrade to the almost never before seen conditions we had last Monday. We’re hoping we’re now closer to the time that we can again be welcoming visitors back to LaTourell’s.

This is from last night at the docks here at LaTourell’s on Moose Lake. This haze was much less today as we had a nice rain this morning….but we still need a bunch more to stabilize the current fire conditions. We look forward to when better weather along with the great work of the crews assigned to our area allow us to safely resume getting back out on the wilderness lakes. We will keep contacting all of you set to visit us as we have more information supplied by the governmental agencies in charge as to when activities are going to be able to continue. We’ll also continue to provide current information here on our posts. Thanks!

Winter isn’t quite through with us yet here on Moose Lake.

This is the last of the ice floating around Moose Lake this afternoon. Some lakes that are often earlier than Moose had a bit more ice left late today, but most of them should be out tonight. I would guess some of the deeper lakes will be a bit yet, but with all of the rain we’ve been having everything should be getting close soon. Water levels are very high with the rain and the timing of it as you can see in the photos.