Hiking the North Shore
5:05 AM. The sun was 10 minutes from rising and everyone was comfortably inside his sleeping bag. 5:13 AM, all six of us had sprinted out of our tents over 300 yards to sit and watch the sun rise over Lake Superior. Below is the beautiful beginning to a great day:
The sun rising over Lake Superior
Surprisingly, the quick beginning to our day gave us more energy and loosened the stiff muscles from yesterday’s strenuous 12 mile hike. Soon we crossed Hwy 1 and had entered Tettegouche State Park. It wasn’t long before we reached the Baptism River. Dropping our packs we headed down to Two Falls.
Two Falls
High Falls
Knowing High Falls only was only just up the river, we walked along the bank until we stood in awe of the highest waterfall in all of Minnesota. As we reached the falls, we saw three adventurous folks jumping off the side of falls into the river. Not to be outdone, four of us scaled the rock to have a test jump for ourselves. I present to you our proof:
Kristin’s Cliff Jump
My Cliff Jump
Shovel Point
Refreshed from the coolness of the water, the hike out passed quickly. Still wanting to see more we drove down to the park’s east boundary to hike Shovel Point. Along the way, the air temperature dropped and the winds picked up courtesy of Lake Superior. Nevertheless, the views from the cliffs were amazing:
It’s not a trip without at least one of these
It is impossible to capture everything that happened over the three days, but hopefully the following slideshow (from Picasa Web Albums) will help fill in the cracks.
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I must say this is a very nice documentary of our amazing trip, but the “(terrified)” comment is not very well explained. So let me explain a little futher why I was, in fact, slightly worried of what we might find. Reese had informed us when he left with his “butt pack” of supplies that if he wasnt back when the sun was just over the trees (~8:30 pm), he was in trouble and we should find him. The sun was actually way past the top of the trees when we started our journey to look for him, so we were already a little worried that he hadnt returned. Reese had also tricked us earlier in the day so Chen and I were skeptical that maybe this was also a trick to see if we would go looking for him, and that he might be setting us up for a scare. As we were walking down this unfamilair path (thinking of the horror hiking stories we had heard earlier), I was leading the way and Chen chucked his apple core fiercly into the woods. Thinking it was something running at us fromt he woods it startled me slightly and Chen found the humor in the situation. A few steps later we found Reese’s map folded with the front side up laying very neatly in the very middle of the trail – like a sign for us to find. There was his map – but no sign of Reese. I think anyone might become “slightly worried” at that point especially if they’ve seen as many television shows where people leave items as a sign. Chen and I continued up the trail and not too much farther we found Reese enjoying the spectacular view of Lake Superior from a rock ledge, unaware that he had left his map for us to find. So there were a series of events leading up to the “slightly worried” state that I was in when we found Reese. Beef Jerky – signing out.
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