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Views from Aiton Heights

Posted in Minnesota State Parks, Photography, The Hike, tagged , on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some of my family and friends are visiting for the holiday weekend.  Saturday, between bear burgers on the grill and bocce ball this afternoon and cheddar and wild rice brats, pizza, and peach pies over the bonfire this evening, we headed down to Itasca State Park for a hike to see the sights.  We made all [...]

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Spring Watch

Posted in Photography, The Hike, tagged , , , on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I took a little hike out in to the woods this afternoon to check the signs of spring and see if there were any shed antlers uncovered by the final snow melt.  No sheds were found this trip, but it was late in the season.  The deeper I traveled, the surer the signs became.

Spring in the Swamp

Woodies [...]

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A Living Monument

Posted in It's Homework, Natural Events, The Hike, tagged , , , , , , on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Recently I was finally able to visit a place that I had only heard about since moving here to Bemidji.  A place where towering giants live.  A place where majestic white and red pines have been spared the lumberjack’s ax and saw to become an old growth sanctuary.  This place is the Lost Forty.
It takes a [...]

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Vigilant Crossing

Posted in The Hike on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On this beautiful winter day, I decided to take a hike into the deer woods.  I hadn’t been there to check things out since I hunted last, over a month ago.  This fall, loggers had been marking up the place getting prepared to harvest another section of acreage.  It was time to check on their [...]

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