Category: North Shore
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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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Lutsen Ice Caves
With Lake Superior solid, it’s been so-so to walk along the shore on the ice. Taking advantage of the frozen lake, I wandered down to the Lutsen sea caves and crawled back into one of the ice caves just at sunset to get this picture.
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Little Cedar Spirit Tree (Manido Gizhigance or The Witch Tree)
I did a 13 mile kayak circumnavigation of Susie Island on Monday. On the way, I stopped for a second to pay my respects to the Little Cedar Spirit Tree (Opens in a New Window). Traditionally, a pinch of tobacco is left at the tree, but, since, the tobacco industry took two of my grandparents…
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Kadunce River
The Kadunce River on the northshore of Minnesota is one of those rivers that you never know exactly what you’ll get. Sometimes, it’s a raging whitewater river (Opens in a new window), sometimes it’s calm and easy to hike up (Opens in a new window), in winter, sometimes it’s ice and sometimes it’s snow covered…
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Skiing the Cascade River
Adam backed off the rock ledge looked over his shoulder, pushed off, gathered speed, and jumped off. I watched him soar through the air, land the leap, fall forward, and I shouted, “Are you okay?” He was fine, but his binding wasn’t. It seemed like we were on the precipice of an unfolding adventure. One…
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Sea Arch
Ilena in her Tahe (Eastpole) Reval kayak going through a sea arch (cave) on Lake Superior. Me doing a balance brace in front of an Inuksuk.
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At the Falls
This is the ice falls on the Onion River. The people are almost all the folks that participated in the Winter Photography Workshop. Thanks, everyone for coming up for the weekend and braving the cold winter. For those that weren’t here for the weekend, understand that we had below zero temps the whole weekend and…