This past weekend Eric and I drove up to Castle Danger to visit Aunt Ada and Uncle Chuck. We arrived a little disappointed (at first) to see hardly any snow on the ground at their house. We spent our first evening at their house sipping tea and catching up on every day life. On Saturday morning we had breakfast and then headed out to Cascade River State Park (which is close to Grand Marais) for some winter hiking. On the drive to the park it was snowing - lightly - and by the time we got to our destination there was a good inch of fresh snow on the ground. It looked very pretty and was mostly untouched. We started our hike to the top of Lookout Mountain - round trip 3.5 miles. We first passed the Cascade River waterfall. The falls were beautiful and completely frozen over!
Thankfully, it had snowed where we were or it would have been hard going on the trail. In many places there was ice on the trail, but the snow kept it from being slippery. Part of our hike was on the Superior Hiking Trail. It was such a joy for me and Eric to be hiking again. We are looking forward to continuing the SHT when it gets warm enough to spend nights on the trails.
The hike was beautiful! All the trees were covered with snow and we saw some amazing views when we got to the top of the mountain. At the top there was about 6 more inches of snow and we had fun stomping around in it before heading back down the mountain. Part of me wanted to stay a while because I knew we were not heading to snow back at home... If it would have been warmer (it was 15 degrees and windy) I might have!
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| Lake Superior is in the far background |
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| Chuck & Ada |
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| Eric tasting the snow... |
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| He was caught in the act! |
We really enjoyed our hike and I wish it would have been a little longer. It was nice to enjoy the beautiful outdoors and fresh snow. After our hike at Cascade we had pizza at Sven & Olie's in Grand Marais. The pizza tasted great after the hike, but we had to wait for an hour. (almost got the hunger grumps!) On the way back to Castle Danger I took a nice nap in the car. This is usually my routine when we visit Chuck and Ada....Hike, Eat, Sleep. :)
On Sunday we went to church with Chuck and Ada, which is next door to their home, and then went out to ear for lunch at a local restaurant called Our Place. After lunch we went on a quick one mile walk at Split Rock. The trails here had hardly any snow and were covered in ice, but the sun came out for us and we enjoyed her warmth.
We enjoyed our trip up north and were very happy to see some snow. We may even head back up in February if they get some more snow in hopes of snow shoeing.
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