Cross-Country Ski Trails in Tip-Top Shape
The trails are calling, can you hear them? photo courtesy of Sugarbush Trail Association
Year: 2018
Saganaga Lake Boundary Waters Trip
Layne Kennedy shared this video of his Boundary Waters Canoe trip on Saganaga this past summer. His dog Mazzie is the star. It sure makes me long for those summer days in the BWCA. Mazzie Goes Camping from Layne Kennedy …
Moose Reminisce
I was going through some of my photos the other day and found these. Moose are such magnificent creatures and it’s always a treat to see them on the Gunflint Trail. I could watch them for hours.
Catching Fish in the Boundary Waters
It’s fun to catch fish in the Boundary Waters. It’s even more fun when you get to pull them up through a hole in the ice. Do you ever wonder who came up with the idea to ice fish? I’m …
Gunflint Mail Run Fun
Matt, Cassidy and Joe worked a couple volunteer road crossing shifts for the Gunflint Mail Run sled dog race this past weekend. The last team didn’t get to their checkpoint until after 2AM so they had a short night of …
Snow Depth and Snow Fall
Here’s some interesting information about how snowfall and snow depth is measured. If you want to know the official snow measurement guidelines from NOAA then check out their handbook that the volunteers who measure the snow use. This is a …
Superior Scenes
Josh Prom captured some scenes of winter beauty on the North Shore of Lake Superior and shared them. Enjoy!
Favorable Forecast
Temperatures are expected to climb up into the teens above zero degrees tomorrow and next week! This is exciting news for those of us who love to get outside in the snow. While I love to cross-country ski it’s a …
When the wind blows and the sun rises
It’s something I have never noticed before. While the hours of daylight get longer after the winter solstice the time of the actual sunrise gets later. The sunrise for our area on December 21st was 7:47:16 am and the sunrise …
Playing on the Seagull River
Last night’s low temperature was -36 degrees at the end of the Gunflint Trail. By the time Matt and Joe went out to play on the Seagull River it had already warmed up 10 degrees! Life at Voyageur Canoe outfitters …