Category: Travel
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MRT Ride – Day 0
I’m doing an organized group ride starting at Itasca and following the Mississippi River back to the twin cities. When I got to Ft Snelling for the start with my father in law, I was pretty amazed -I was the youngest person there by a decade. I was starting to worry that these old Betty’s…
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S24O
Did another little S24O this weekend. Left from work, and rode with Tad to Tin Fish at Lake Calhoun, where we met up with Marcus. We ate a pile of fried food, and then pedaled off to Carver Park Reserve. The sky was clear and perfect the whole ride. We made crazy good time –…
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BWCA – October of 2011
Went to the BWCA in early October of 2011 with a group of friends. The temps were great (lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s), the skies were clear, the friends were excellent, and the food was pretty darn good. We left on a Thursday night after work, and drove up to Ely,…
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S24O – September 2011
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S24O
Sorry for the terrible delay, but I’m finally getting around to posting about the S24O that Marcus and I did in June (!). We did an S24O (Sub-24-hour-Overnight). We rode from our houses to meet-up at Minnehaha Falls, had lunch at Sea Salt (where we were surprised by a bonus platter of calamari – can’t…
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BWCA – May 2010
This year was a totally new crew for the Boundary Waters. I decided to take my father-in-law (Charlie) for his birthday, and my neighbor (Pat) was interested in going. Of last years’ crew, 2 were having babies, and one had a conflict, so I was still short a fourth. In stepped a co-worker (Dan) to…
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BWCA – May 2009
This year, four of us went to BWCA in mid-May. That decision had its pros and cons. Gear-wise, there weren’t too many changes this year. I had the new shell (from a year ago), and that was about it. Instead of bringing a hatchet (which does have some maiming potential), I brought a folding sawvivor bow-saw and…
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BWCA – October 2007
When I moved to Minnesota, I had to come up with something other than mountains to tickle my outdoor itch. When in Minnesota, there’s lakes, and lakes are what people do. So, I started planning what I can do on lakes. Back in 1995, I was able to come along on a trek to the…