Each fall some 700 hours of volunteer labor is required to clear the summer's accumulation of brush and down trees before the trail can be opened for Nordic Skiing in the winter. In addition to clearing this year's "crop" of down trees and brush, volunteers will continue the clean up from last year's devastating BWCA wind storm. Since the use of power tools is prohibited in the BWCA, all the trail clearing must be done by hand.

Volunteers provide work clothing and sleeping bags. There is a minimal charge to cover cost of meals. On these trips volunteers stay at either a USFS bunkhouse or a cabin along the Gunflint Trail.

Located near the Gunflint Trail, the nineteen-mile Banadad is the BWCA's longest cross-country ski trail. The Banadad serves as the connecting link between the Bearskin/Golden Eagle and Upper Gunflint Nordic Trail systems. Boundary Country Trekking's Banadad Trail Committee coordinates the maintenance and grooming of the trail under agreement with the U.S. Forest Services' Gunflint Ranger District.