Category: Grand Marais
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Minnesota Northern Lights
The Minnesota northern lights were out tonight, so we drove up the Gunflint looking for a good location to view them. It turned out that Northern Lights Lake provided the best view. We watched them dance above our heads for hours. For about a half hour, they were so bright that the almost full moon…
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Rosebush Creek Waterfalls on Minnesota’s North Shore
This small creek near Cutface Creek rarely runs in the summer, so if you want to photograph it, you must get there in the spring. This is the biggest waterfall on the creek. It’s about 8 feet high. The USGS topo maps call this Rosebush Creek, but long-time Grand Marais and north shore residents call…
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Ash and Smoke
This afternoon, the wind shifted and blew the smoke from the forest fire into town. Ash fell from the sky and everything smells like a campfire. It’s 80 F hot and dry and smoky. The news up the trail is more mandatory evacs in the Gunflint lodge area back to the Old Gunflint. And suggested…
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Smoke Over Town, Fire in the BWCA
If you haven’t been watching the national news, you may not know that the Boundary Waters are on fire again. It sounds like the upper section of the Gunflint Trail has been devastated. Some of this fire is in the 1999 blow down area (Amazon link. I may get a commission). Tonight, in town I…