Discover the magnificent fall colors of Lake Superior’s South Shore on coastal and inland foraging hikes around the Bayfield Peninsula, with Twin Cities Chef Lachelle Cunningham and MPR host Angela Davis. Explore the beauty of the area, including hemlock forests, hidden waterfalls, and Lake Superior beaches while searching for nature’s foods. Spend your evenings learning, cooking, and sharing meals with Chef Lachelle and Angela Davis, emphasizing the connection between nature and nourishment. Enjoy the accommodations at Wilderness Inquiry’s Little Sand Bay base camp, just north of Bayfield, Wisconsin. This is a great trip for adults seeking a relaxed and meaningful exploration of the outdoors and natural foods amidst the autumnal beauty of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
ACCOMMODATIONS: You will enjoy your stay at our Little Sand Bay base camp. At night, you will sleep in comfortable platform tents with cots. Typically, there are 2-3 people per 4-person tent (but other arrangements can be made). Our Little Sand Bay base camp has very nice bathrooms and shower facilities with hot water.
ACTIVITIES ON YOUR TRIP: Your time will be spent hiking along Lake Superior. An average day’s travel consists of 2-3 hiking hours, depending on weather conditions. Travel distances vary from 2-4 miles each day.
MEALS: We’ll enjoy preparing our meals with Chef Lachelle and our host, Angela Davis. together using fresh, healthy ingredients for bountiful dishes. Rise to the smell of freshly brewed coffee to enjoy with your breakfast of veggie breakfast tacos, sweet potato hash with chickpeas and green scramble. We’ll pack picnic lunches with hearty snacks before heading off to explore. In the evening, we’ll prepare our dinner together over stoves and campfires, and then finish with s’mores or a glass of wine.
YOUR GROUP: We welcome people of various ages, backgrounds, and abilities, including people with disabilities. Our trips are cooperative adventures and people pitch in with camp chores as they are able.
GROUP EXPECTATIONS: To facilitate a safe and inclusive environment where we can all come together as our true selves, feel supported, and enjoy the outdoors in community, we have developed community agreements that align with Wilderness Inquiry’s core values and brand promise. We ask that you review these before your adventure so you can help Wilderness Inquiry create an inclusive environment for all.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS AS WE ADVENTURE TOGETHER
☐ We are safety conscious so everyone can have fun!
☐ We seek to understand each other and celebrate our differences.
☐ We are curious, open-minded, and communicate respectfully.
☐ We are open to trying new things and pushing outside of our comfort zone.
☐ We support each other and collectively contribute to group tasks.
Angela Davis is the host of MPR News with Angela Davis, a weekday talk show that airs at 9 a.m. She joined MPR News in November 2018 after more than 25 years of television reporting and anchoring in the Twin Cities and other cities throughout the country.
Davis leads conversations on a wide variety of topics including how the state is changing, Minnesota’s persistent racial disparities, economic issues, education and mental health. The program includes insight from experts as well as listeners who call in during the live broadcast.
Before joining MPR News, Angela anchored morning and evening newscasts at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and KSTP-TV in St. Paul. She has won five regional Emmy awards for anchoring and covering breaking news. Her television career included jobs at CNN in Atlanta and local stations in Washington, DC, Dallas, TX and Lexington, KY.
Angela holds a journalism degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and grew up in southern Virginia. She also did graduate work in urban affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a member of the local and national chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Angela is the mother of two college students. Her son attends Morehouse College in Atlanta and her daughter is a student at the University of Maryland in College Park. She is married to fellow journalist Duchesne Drew. In 2020 he joined her at Minnesota Public Radio after a long career as a reporter and editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. They live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Chef Lachelle has been a dynamic force on the Twin Cities food scene and is known for cooking globally inspired comfort food that thwarts unhealthy stereotypes and fuses in global flavors.
She began her culinary career by launching Chelles’ Kitchen in 2012 and soon became known for her work as the founding executive chef of Breaking Bread Cafe (2015) in North Minneapolis. In 2018, Chef Lachelle began building the Healthy Roots Institute with a mission focused on healing and social justice through food education, culinary arts and entrepreneurship. Through the institute, Chef Lachelle curates cooking workshops and retreats, teaches culinary arts and food business classes, and provides human resources, menu development and operations consulting to local restaurants and foodservice establishments.
NOTE - This trip is presented in partnership with WILDERNESS INQUIRY.