Lake Superior

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walk, Lake Superior, Winter

Yesterday Lake Superior bore some 11,500 folks on her shoulders to Mawikwe Caves.

by Ken Jackson

Bayfield — Some winters, with severe temperatures cold enough, freeze a path on the surface Lake Superior to the ice filled sandstone caves of Mawikwe Bay. Yesterday 11,500 people gathered family and friends to make the miles long walk. A short tour might stretch 3 miles. A wayfarer on the longer journey might walk 9 miles to see all the wonders. Tall cliffs rise above a shore without a beach which prevent...

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spring, Weather, Lake Superior

This June? Certainly a florist's cooler!

by Ken Jackson

Duluth — I don’t mean to bitch, but it’s the Big Lake. She froze to the bone this winter and she’s damn slow to warm up. Living cheek by jowl with Lake Superior as I do, I constantly feel her cold feet up aga...

Lake Superior, spring, minnesota

Truly we've broken the back of Winter at the western end of Lake Superior.

by Ken Jackson

Duluth — True! we still have flows of ice floating off shore. True! Yesterday as I worked in the garden I experienced 46° while my friends who live further from the Lake enjoyed 86°. Tonight, however, at 2:00 ...

Lake Superior, Weather

Gale warning: "LAKE ICE EMBEDDED WITHIN WAVES COULD RESULT IN VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR VESSELS ON WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR."

by Ken Jackson

Duluth — Most any northeast wind reminds we dwellers of her western shore that Lake Superior has a ‘tude. We have at the far corner of the Lake , on average, 52 days of fog - gray, cold and clammy days each ye...

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