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Below is the current information about our Minnesota retreats. If you would like to learn more about our retreats in New Mexico, please visit our  Ghost Ranch page.

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There will be oneMinnesota knitting retreats this Winter....

Camp Du Nord. . . . . . Friday - Sunday . . . . . . January 26 - 28, 2007

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Below are descriptions of our Minnesota retreat locations.

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Lost In The Woods Knitting Retreats - Minnesota Locations

Over the years, we have held our knitting retreats in a number of different locations. Currently we are using Camp Widjiwagan and Camp Du Nord.

Camp Widjiwagan is a YMCA youth camp facility, owned by the St. Paul YMCA, which we have been using for many years. Our Widji retreats typically begin with dinner at 6:00 pm on a Friday and end on Sunday with lunch. Usually all meals are prepared and served in Kirby Hall by the Widji staff, but sometimes we do a potluck meal for dinner on Friday evening. We have done both Fall and Winter retreats at Widji.

Camp Widjiwagan is about a 12 mile drive north of Ely. It is in a forest of wonderful aspen, birch, spruce and old pines along the shore of Burntside Lake - our most beautiful clear water lake near Ely. Widji is a "Y" camp for kids so we sleep in bunk beds (bottom beds only) in dorm-like rooms. Bring your own bedding or sleeping bag, pillow, towel, soap, flashlight, personal reading light, and a swimming suit (if you wish) for the wood fired sauna down by the lake. We can also jump in the lake - fall or winter - after getting all steamed up in the sauna. For all the brave souls who are up to taking the plunge when the lake is frozen over, the staff keeps a hole open through the ice! We wear socks for running through the snow to the lake and back.

The new Sigurd Olson Center (SOC) is a wonderful big room for people to spread out and knit, and for us to put around shop yarns, etc. Two new nearby cabins - East and West Wind - sleep 8 people each on bottom bunks and also provide indoor bathrooms. There are also a couple of other cabins nearby that require a short walk to use the bathrooms in the Shower House. All showers are in the shower house.

Camp Du Nord is another YMCA camp facility - this one a family camp, also owned by the St. Paul YMCA. Our retreats begin with a potluck meal at 6:00 PM on a Friday and end on Sunday with lunch. We do our own breakfasts in our cabins (which have full kitchens) and the Du Nord staff serves us Saturday lunch and dinner, plus Sunday lunch in their large, new dining hall which they will shuttle us to and from in their minibus, though many people choose to walk.

Camp Du Nord is just a little further down the North Arm Road from Camp Widjiwagan, so it is also in a forest of wonderful aspen, birch, spruce and old pines along the shore of Burntside Lake - our most beautiful clear water lake near Ely. We will be staying in four of their beautiful, new Pine Pointe cabins. Bring your own bedding or sleeping bag, pillow, towel, soap, flashlight, personal reading light. We will be knitting in the Morning Glory Program Center which is near our cabins and up high with a great view and a fireplace. We'll also have our Friday evening potluck meal in Morning Glory, where there is a kitchen with a sink, microwave and refrigerator.

As an extra note of interest, my husband, Carl, helped design and draw plans for Camp Du Nord's Morning Glory Program Center and a couple of the Pint Pointe cabins, as well as several other Du Nord buildings. He also helped design and draw plans for Camp Widjiwagan's Winds cabins and several other Widji buildings, including the roof system log work for their new Sigurd Olson Center building. The web site for his home-based business is at Architectural Drafting & Design .  (His web page should open in a new browser window so, when you are done viewing it, you may close that window to return to this page.)

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