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riverrunner
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07/26/2017 01:32PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
White pickup in downtown Grand Marais today around 1:00pm. We were in a green Ford with MNII on top.
 
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WHendrix
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07/29/2017 04:57PM  
If it had a Spirit II and a Magic on the top it was me. We ate in town and then headed up to visit Grand Portage. We had never been there and it was a very good visit.

Bill
 
riverrunner
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07/30/2017 07:23AM  
Could very well been. I really can't say if I remember the canoes - just that it had a flying moose on it.
 
07/31/2017 03:19PM  
quote WHendrix: "...visit Grand Portage. We had never been there and it was a very good visit.
Bill"


What is good to see in Grand Portage?
 
WHendrix
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07/31/2017 04:09PM  
The National Park Service has a very well done interpretive center there with good information about the First Nation people who first inhabited the area and about the voyageurs and associated fur trading activities. They have also partially recreated the original fur trading post and there is additional interpretive information there.
 
07/31/2017 04:19PM  
OK. Thanks.

I did some googling and found that they also have the state's largest waterfall, have you seen it?

They are also having a rendezvous on the 2nd weekend of August, have you ever checked it out?
 
07/31/2017 06:57PM  
HIgh Falls of the Pigeon River is definitely worth the drive and then the hike. there is a trail on the MN side (mostly paved and ADA) and there is a trail on the Canadian side (all dirt and not ADA; need passport to get across border both ways).

The PowWow is amazing!!! esp the Grand Entry. if you ever have the chance to attend just once i just bet you'll love it.
 
07/31/2017 09:09PM  
quote Mocha: "HIgh Falls of the Pigeon River is definitely worth the drive and then the hike. there is a trail on the MN side (mostly paved and ADA) and there is a trail on the Canadian side (all dirt and not ADA; need passport to get across border both ways).


The PowWow is amazing!!! esp the Grand Entry. if you ever have the chance to attend just once i just bet you'll love it."


Can you see the falls without crossing the border?

I will see if I can make it to the PowWow.
 
jhb8426
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07/31/2017 11:06PM  
quote rdgbwca: Can you see the falls without crossing the border?
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Yes, from the MN side. Trail goes to it, good views. Mocha's comment about a passport was referring to going on the Canadian side. You need a passport to go there and to come back into the U.S.
 
08/01/2017 09:17AM  
quote jhb8426:
Yes, from the MN side. Trail goes to it, good views. Mocha's comment about a passport was referring to going on the Canadian side. You need a passport to go there and to come back into the U.S."


Thanks for clarifying. Do you recall how long of a hike it is to the falls?
 
08/01/2017 11:28AM  
quote rdgbwca: "
quote jhb8426:
Yes, from the MN side. Trail goes to it, good views. Mocha's comment about a passport was referring to going on the Canadian side. You need a passport to go there and to come back into the U.S."



Thanks for clarifying. Do you recall how long of a hike it is to the falls?"
1/2 mile or less.
 
QueticoMike
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08/01/2017 12:33PM  
Anyone have pics of the falls?
 
08/01/2017 12:59PM  
1/2 mile or less."

Thanks again. QueticoMike, I might have some in the near future. :-)
 
08/02/2017 02:15PM  
I did not see 1 flying moose this year between my early May solo to Mudro, Memorial Day weekend daddy/daughter trip to Swan from Bower Trout, or our family's 5 night stay in a cabin on the Gunflint Trail last week. This includes all the driving to and from/ around Ely, Grand Marais, and up and down the Gunflint Trail several times.
 
08/02/2017 09:15PM  
oops!
 
08/02/2017 09:15PM  

just throwing this in because it is on the way up the shore from grand marais to grand portage. it's the Kadunce river. winter is easiest to hike up the river bed, carefully as you can hear the water beneath the ice. pretty sure the hiking trail from hwy 61 inland would hook up with the Superior Hiking Trail.
 
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