Cross River

Current River yesterday, last day of January:

Bunch Berries ~ Rose Lake

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Love this!

Blueberries on the Granite River:

not sure, i think it's a redpoll?

Grouse

pemmican lake, october 2016

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Grouse"

This is excellent

you could use that in a painting if you like!

Was a cold hike yesterday, not much to photo, did come across this goof,

thawing mustache icicles.

butthead

quote butthead: "Was a cold hike yesterday, not much to photo, did come across this goof,

thawing mustache icicles.


butthead"

it's nice you found some shelter serving hot beverage!! i see you have gators on, are you looking for antlers?

Just out for a hike, antlers often found as an extra! Those are Air Force surplus mukluks, $28 off ebay. Added a pair of 9mm wool liners, I like toasty feet!
That's a trail shelter just off the Ice Age Trail, S. Kettle Moraine State Forest.


butthead

early ice out, March 21, 2012, Gunflint lake

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Hoping for another 2012 this year. This was the first week in April 2012 on South Fowl. It was perfect weather, 50 degree days, 20s at night and very light winds. It was a short but very memorable trip.

is this in the area with all cabins? nice sandy landing! i really like northe and south fowl but when i've been through there we're always in a hurry to get through to east pike. would love to explore more toward where the pigeon river starts.

quote Mocha: "is this in the area with all cabins? nice sandy landing! i really like northe and south fowl but when i've been through there we're always in a hurry to get through to east pike. would love to explore more toward where the pigeon river starts."

This is the south side of the island that separates north and South Fowl. There is a very interesting story about all the cabins that are on Fowl Lakes and how they got there. Way too long to tell here....maybe on a wing night. The dam at the end of the lake where the Pigeon River starts is worth a visit.

i'd love to hear those stories!!!


a bend in the MN river, 2/11/17

Beargrease 2015. heading up a one mile with several hundred foot incline to the snowmobile trail from gunflint lake.

feb 14, 2014.... it's red for valentine's day.

Deer in the yard this evening:

West end of Brule Lake at 1 in the afternoon. The whole lake was like this.

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Beargrease 2015. heading up a one mile with several hundred foot incline to the snowmobile trail from gunflint lake."

Love it!

the hungry jack outfitters road, long and winding on fresh snow. good thing no one was coming from the opposite direction! 2/16/16

Following a theme of snow and red for Valentines week - with hyper-warm temps not feeling very Minnesota right now.

jaywalker, those phone booths look like they are either in London or a movie set! sounds like you'll get your winter wish soon.



my brother and sis-in-law picked me up this morning, we took a scenic drive to springfield, mn to the meat shop (awesome, BTW!), on our way home we took some back roads along hwy 4 toward ft. ridgely, then the "bottom road", which could be renamed the Soggy Bottom road. lots of flooded fields, most still frozen. apparently there was quite a bit of rain last fall so the MN river flooded in this area. ANYWAY.... here are some geese getting ready for a swim. there were tons of geese and some mallards just soaking up the sun and paddling around the little pond of open water. we also saw a flock of wild turkeys stepping over a dead racoon on the center line. no pics of them... they move fast!

Hanging on the wood shed. Used to scare my daughter with it!

start of Badwater portage, from West Bay of Quetico lake to Badwater. we didn't know any better and thought this was normal, after all it IS a 320rd portage! we were told later that the water was pretty low if we had to start way out there. LOL

February 20th, 1st Daffodils blooming. Usually pop up the first week or two of March:

i like daffodils... they don't last long but they are very refreshing.



the little stream between kingfisher and ogish (this is looking at ogish). oct 2011.
would be interested to see photos of the current landscape in this area.

quote Mocha: "i like daffodils... they don't last long but they are very refreshing.






the little stream between kingfisher and ogish (this is looking at ogish). oct 2011.
would be interested to see photos of the current landscape in this area."

That photo leaves me almost speachless. That was always such a pretty portage IMHO, one of my favorites.

Downy woodpecker, he keeps me company every day.

Seagull portrait.

Two of my neighbors.

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Those are MY kind of neighbors (LOL)!

cute horsies!!


shoreline

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Cross River"

The silence in this photo is deafening! I love it.

Destruction from wind.

thanks, Lindsey! that is one of my most favorite views, esp in winter. it's near the cross river ep 50 landing.

alpine side of portage to red rock

The dam on South Fowl Lake

dam on pickerel lake, quetico

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this is a cool looking dam... it says, "come to my entrance and see where i will take you... "

Those are some cool looking dams.
This one is the old dam at Florence Lake. It usually is under water but the drought left it exposed again.

quote MHS67: "
Those are some cool looking dams.
This one is the old dam at Florence Lake. It usually is under water but the drought left it exposed again."

that is a very old looking dam! interesting how it's built with board and rocks. where is Florence lake?

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quote MHS67: "
Those are some cool looking dams.
This one is the old dam at Florence Lake. It usually is under water but the drought left it exposed again."

that is a very old looking dam! interesting how it's built with board and rocks. where is Florence lake?
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Mocha, Florence lake is about 100 miles north east of Fresno Calif. in the Sierra's. The last 20 miles is on a 1 lane old blacktop road and takes about 2 hours to travel.

Mocha, you asked about a current picture of the Ogish-Kingfisher creek - this is what I have from September 2016:

Pretty sure this is at the end of the portage on the Ogish side, but my back was to the creek, that's my buddy in the picture. Gives you an idea of the size of the trees.


And this is the east end of that same creek, on the Kingfisher side. The fastest action we had on the trip was in the moving water there.

thanks, Joe!! look at all that water and the new growth.

GOODBYE FEBRUARY!!!! there can only be sunny and bright days ahead.

quetico, 2008

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Cross River"

Beautiful photo

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Grouse"

This is excellent"

Yes it is!