When you live in a small tourist town summertime is the time to hustle. Jobs are plentiful, and the hours are available. In the town of Ely, MN it’s…
April 18, 2018: Ice Out Report from early season canoeists #14 Little Indian Sioux North and the Portage River Open water can’t get here soon enough. We decided to go…
This transitory time of year reveals temporary treasures that can only briefly be appreciated outside of memory. Cameras only collect these beautiful things out of context, and so with imagination…
Poem: April Ice
April 10, 2019
April 10, 2019
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Poetry, Travelogues
ice, poetry, Spring, tim stouffer, winter
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April Ice Birch trees rise from the cliffs, tenuous in their grip on granite bluff and marginally layered soil, like teeth in a crooked, gapped and laughing smile. Against the…
Skiing and biking on the lakes when we can’t paddle is great exercise and great fun. You really couldn’t get lost in the fog on Burntside Lake yesterday (April 6th,…
Trip Journal: Day Hike on the Bass Lake Trail, April 6th, 2019 While the streets and sidewalks of downtown Ely are void of snow, there’s still snow cover in the…
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Sometimes you can’t escape for longer than an overnight. Sometimes you want to go canoe camping but you have to be at work the next day. But… you haven’t been…
Ahead The water road winds ahead never weary of reflecting the blue sky above, like a mid-century Hamms beer commercial. Harvey is focused on me. Perhaps he’s hungry or bored…