Gitchi - gami, From Croftville Thunderstorm fades into darkness crashing waves mellow with age Dawn reveals a textured surface rag watercolor paper Absorbing. Reflecting. Orangy-purple, red, blue, steel-grey The colors undulate and rearrange painting a September day.

[from the sloppy journal]

Gitchi-gami, From Croftville

Thunderstorm fades into darkness
crashing waves mellow with age

Dawn reveals a textured surface—
rag watercolor paper

Absorbing.
Reflecting.

Orangy-purple, red, blue, steel-grey

The colors undulate […]

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50 years to the day since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with all 29 hands, we still don’t know why.

So every time we stand on the shores of Lake Superior, we let the waves reach out to us from the mysterious depths.

#oldwomanbay #lakesuperior #gitchigami #throwback

The long term forecast here in #Michigan calls for our first #snow of the season next Monday.

Next Monday (10 November) is also the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the #EdmundFitzgerald and snow on that day would seem a fitting marker.

#GalesofNovember
#GitchiGami

Lake Superior Beach Feather #LakeSuperior #GitchiGami #EastCoastKin #GreatLakes #PureMichigan

#northshoremn #tofte #lakesuperior #gitchigami #waterfalls #gooseberryfallsstatepark #splitrocklighthouse #temperanceriverstatepark #grandmarais

Sun setting bleeding into the mirror calm water of Gitchigam, dude and dog in silhouette on a sandy beach in Wisconsin

Hey bluesky you all like skies, there’s a damn lot of skies on here so here’s a fucking sky

#gitchigami #lakesuperior #wisconsin

Entering the Stockade - HFF! The Great Hall with the stockade around it, Grand Portage National Monument. The site features a reconstruction of the historic trading post. The Minnesota Historical Society began the project, which...

The overnight to #FortCharlotte starts here, at the reconstructed #tradingpost at #GitchiOmigaang #GrandPortage.

A distinctive start to a #backpacking trip!
#photography #nationalparks #LakeSuperior #GitchiGami #Minnesota #MniSotaWakoce
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Fort Charlotte campground I was surprised to find this at the end of a nine-mile historic portage. Presumably it serves mostly canoeists coming off the Pigeon River above the falls. (The canoeists probably have only a 2-2.5 p...

The #campsite at #FortCharlotte, at the western end of #GichiOnigaming #GrandPortage, nine miles (15 km) from #GitchiGami #LakeSuperior.

The trail is harder than expected: mud, plank crossings, and large puddles make it hard to maintain pace.
#backpacking #nationalparks #Minnesota
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Fort Charlotte campsite With a peekaboo view of the Pigeon River.

#Backpacking along the historic #GrandPortage #GitchiOnigamiing from #LakeSuperior #GitchiGami to #FortCharlotte on the #PigeonRiver over a low mountain pass.

After I retired, a large mammal chased another large mammal past my tent.

#nationalparks #Minnesota #photography #tent
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Gitchi-gami…

…tradition

#MrT #gitchigami #lakesuperior #climatesancuary