Wilderness Diary

January 29, 2000

Keweenaw Ice



My wife Patty and I ventured up the Keweenaw Peninsula for a little snow touring and to photograph the ice formations on Lake Superior. We met up with photographer Steve Brimm and his wife Julie on the shore west of Copper Harbor for an exploration of the Arctic icescape. Below is a picture of Steve a step away from icy death inside an ice "volcano", photographing a spectacular arch above us. The ice in the background of this photo was moving!


The ice formations were bizarre and spectacular, the colors divine. The ice here is different than at my home shore in the Porcupine Mountains, more pristine and uncontaminated by silt. Below is an adamantine ice shard reflecting the sky above.

It was a slendid sunny day in the Keweenaw. Here's one more image, taken at Bete Grise, with Bear Bluff in the background.

Feburary 17, 2000

The Polar Dome



Jim Gallie tested the Polar Dome, a new method for construction of snow shelters. Cosmo and I visited when Jim was excavating the interior, and Cosmo really pitched in to help dig...

Feburary 19, 2000

Norwich Bluff In Winter


Cruising for photos, I was surprised to find that several of the roads in the Ottawa National Forest that normally become snowmobile trails in winter were plowed for logging activity. I pressed on from Bergland to Norwich, its snowy bluff pictured above.


To Be Continued...