Heavy snowfall makes winter driving in Minnesota a real pain, but drop a light dusting over Duluth hills and dangerous driving is taken to a new place: The uphill slide. A quick YouTube search shows how cars, trucks and buses are no match for ice-covered avenues that tilt down at black diamond angles through this … More Sliding uphill
An ice chunk about the size of Hennepin County floats between Wisconsin and Minnesota at the “head of the Great Lakes.” It draws people to the Duluth shoreline like a magnet. Walkers, runners, families, teenagers and photographers like me were all over the Lakewalk Trail last Monday. Some lakeside visitors are more daring than others. … More The Lake Superior ice magnet
A lake-effect snowstorm is not a good time to walk a dog, especially in a dress. But the Saturday evening blizzard didn’t stop a couple of dog lovers from caring for their pets outside the Duluth Holiday Inn Saturday night. A woman and a friend stood on a concrete plaza somewhere behind the hotel. Both … More Lake-effect snowstorm 360 video
Sometimes a good mountain bike ride can take us to new levels, places higher than the hills above the city, deeper than rushing river ravines and beyond our own preconceived limitations. A good mountain bike ride travels into the wilderness. And just when we feel lost, the trail leads to a jaw-dropping view that pinpoints our … More Mountain bike rides are life; better put on a helmet
35 Years in the Big Sky Country
This blog documents the photo-gathering roadtrips for RoadsideArchitecture.com (aka roadarch.com). That gigantic website covers buildings, signs & statues from the 1920s-1970s. The posts here offer about a dozen photos from each day of shooting. In winter, there are "news" posts about demolitions, removals, remodeling, restorations, etc.
Featuring student work from the University of Minnesota Duluth Journalism program.
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Exploring the North Woods
Duluth, Minnesota based birder. Sax-Zim Bog naturalist.
What happens when a Twin Cities townie follows his wife into the woods?
He farms! He writes! He paints!
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
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