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Along the North Shore, our geographical identity is formed in part by weather extremes. Frigid cold, heavy snow, summer thunderstorms, and even occasional heat waves. Because of these extremes, it could be argued that shelter is one of the most important foundations of our everyday lives. It’s surprising then, that our chosen shelters come in such an array of shapes, styles and sizes.

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We chose in this issue to explore a few of the many possibilities for a northern home. Like the array of interesting folks that populate the north, there are a variety of homes that many would consider to be an alternative to the traditional stick-built house.

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Joseph Friedrichs writes about the growing trend of tiny houses. He speaks with Mark Hansen, a Grand Marais resident who built a tiny home on wheels that he calls a gypsy wagon. Hansen discusses the benefits of living with a tiny footprint. Friedrichs also talks with Grand Marais’ Betsy Jorgenson who lived in a tiny house more out of necessity than choice (story on p. 14).

Linden Figgie tells us about a couple that built and live in a yurt (story on p. 38). Rachel and Ian Andrus and their daughter Norah make their home in a canvas covered round home in the woods and have much to say about the benefits and challenges. And with a somewhat nuanced take on shelter, Rosemary Bray (story on p. 12) tells us how to build a quinzee, in case you need a temporary warm spot from which to fish or camp (though half the warmth comes just from shoveling the snow).

While all these non-traditional homes and lifestyles are a rich part of the northern identity, we acknowledge that we have folks in our communities who don’t have a home.

While some of us choose to make a go of yurt-living in the woods, others are living in cars or uninsulated cabins because they have nowhere else to go. There is in fact, a population of homeless along the North Shore, which stands in stark contrast to a place filled with vacation homes and tourist destinations (see homeless story on p. 10).

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Minnesota ice sculptor’s dedication brings national attention to Twin Ports SUPERIOR, WIS.— National news is abuzz with the story of Roger Hanson and his plan to shatter world records. Hanson, from Big Lake, is attempting to build the world’s tallest freestanding wall of ice at about 70 feet tall by 95 feet wide. It’s an extremely challenging task: the ice wall fell victim to Mother Nature once already and crashed to the ground in early February due to warm temperatures. Despite the setback, Hanson has persevered and is back to building the wall.

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Hanson is a self-taught electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and software developer who set up shop in a 32-foot trailer on Barker’s Island last fall to commence the “Lake Superior Ice Project.” Each day, Hanson toils tirelessly on the ice wall with the goal of boosting winter tourism in Superior.

“I really am happy with [the City of Superior and the Superior Tourism Development Fund] for giving me the opportunity to do this,” said Hanson. “I feel obligated to do the best job I can in enhancing their bottom line and bringing people to this area.”

To aid economic development, the “Ice Man” is calling attention to the Twin Ports, addressing frequent inquiries from the media and moving quickly from one interview to the next. His story has been shared by the New York Times, the Washington Times, the Weather Channel, the British Daily Mail and numerous other news organizations. Thousands of people have visited the ice wall this season. Hanson estimates that upward of 500 vehicles stop by each weekend to take in the awe-inspiring sight.

The process begins with a steel cable strung between two 65-foot tall towers. Then, Hanson’s self-developed software program targets a spot in which to shoot a two-second burst of water. The program does this by calculating a target distance, angle, wind speed and temperature four times a second. The repetitive bursts of water, shot on the cable, drip down the cable and freeze, slowly building a sculpture over time. The cable is removed once the base is built, and the water is then shot directly onto the sculpture. The complex process, designed entirely by Hanson, involves specifically-programmed computers, algorithms and numerous wires, seismic sensors, circuit boards, pipes, pumps and filters.

“I am only the contractor,” Hanson said. “Mother Nature is the artist.”

Hanson has faced numerous challenges while executing the project including extreme winds, unstable soil comprised of silt and sand (Barker’s Island is manmade) and unfavorable temperatures.

Roger Hanson’s ice sculpture in Superior, Wis. collapsed in February but he is rebuilding. | SUBMITTED “It’s supposed to be cold here in Superior,” Hanson joked, “That’s what they told me. It’s not! Not this year, anyway.”

The elements are making it hard for Hanson to progress his sculpture this season. He’s hoping to pursue a world record next winter, if the elements work in his favor. According to the Guinness’ website, the current record goes to Yichun City, China. In 2010, the community built a 53-foot, 3-inch tall dinosaur-shaped ice sculpture.

Hanson will begin reducing the wall on March first, due to weather concerns, and he is hopeful that the City of Superior and the Superior Tourist Development Fund will partner with him to build another wall next season. So far, Hanson received $30,000 in funding from the two organizations and is seeking donations for the remaining cost of this season’s $50-60,000 project. For more information, visit icemanroger.com.—Kelsey Roseth

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Champion for wilderness trails looks to save another MINNEAPOLIS— Martin Kubik’s passion for wilderness hiking has led him to resurrect trails after Mother Nature has destroyed them with wind and fire. According to Kubik, if he wasn’t leading the charge, no one would.

Born in former Czechoslovakia, Kubik moved to the U.S at age 17 and studied electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota. He first encountered wilderness hiking when he took a break from college and guided at Adventurous Christians on the Gunflint Trail and did a training trip on the Kekekabic Trail. He returned to hike that trail many times in the 1980s, even after becoming a full-time employee of 3M corporation in St. Paul. He observed a decline in trail maintenance over that same decade and by 1990 founded the Kekekabic Trail Club when it became clear that the Forest Service was no longer going to maintain the trail.

“I organized 115 3M employees to clear the trail. We cleared over 1,000 trees in one year,” Kubik said.

Over the next decade, Kubik and the Kekekabic Trail Club cleared other trails within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as well, including, the Snowbank Trail, Brule Lake Trail, Kelso Lake Trail, and South Lake Trail.

Then in 2002, Kubik formed the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC), which at first was supposed to just focus on lobbying, but after seeing the Brule Lake Trail get worse and worse, Kubik stepped in, did some brief training with the Forest Service on trail clearing ettiquette and set to work, even lugging in a 40-pound fire grate to a new campsite that he helped to clear.

Now another trail needs work before it succombs to the wilderness forever.

The Pow Wow Trail near Isabella begins at the Lake Isabella parking lot. Camping overnight on the trail requires a wilderness permit as the trail is entirely within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW).

Much of the trail follows old logging roads that were in place before the area became designated wilderness.

The trail is currently 32 miles long.

In 2011, the Pagami creek fire burned 95 percent of the area the trail goes through, and Kubik estimates there are currently 2,000 trees across the trail. Kubik would like to see the Forest Service take the charge on clearing the trail, but as of yet that hasn’t happened, and because of this there has been a dramatic drop in usage of the trail.

“Basically it’s not even hikable right now,” Kubik said.

“You can hike it if you have chutzpah.”

Martin Kubik is passionate about clearing the Pow Wow Trail after the Pagami Creek fire dropped thousands of trees on the trail. | MARTIN KUBIK Kubik made four trips to the Pow Wow trail in 2014 alone, and his pictures of the trail show a bleak but beautiful world. Green brush dominates a landscape dotted with dead, blackened trees. Low swamps, rock formations and occasional small lakes break up the scenery. If it weren’t for the pictures of hikers climbing up, over and through deadfalls, one might feel inspired to check it out.

Kubik’s trips have been alone or with small groups of volunteers, who have begun the arduous task of removing some of the fallen trees. On one trip, he cleared a mile of trail in five hours by himself.

For Kubik the allure of the trail is the wilderness setting.

“If you were to drive east or west, you’d have to go a long way to reach these kind of wilderness trails,” Kubik said. “Here there is no one around for miles.”

Kubik knows that volunteer hours are crucial to the survival of these trails.

“They have been able to preserve the resource,” he said. “If the Forest Service can get the money and the grants [to do the work] I’m all for it. They can do the bigger jobs. We can do the smaller ones.”

Recently the BWAC sent the request for funds to clear the Pow Wow trail to Sen. Klobuchar and Rep. Nolan.

The Forest Service has since signed the agreement to clear the trail. This will clear about half of the 2,000 downed trees, Kubik said.

Kubik said that hiking and the trails are an obsession.

But, he said, “If I didn’t save these trails, they would be gone ... if it was up to the Forest Service, two thirds of the trails [in the BWCAW] would be gone.”—Erin Altemus

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Results of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ annual aerial moose survey place the 2015 statewide moose population estimate at 3,450. This compares with estimates of 4,350 in 2014 and 2,760 in 2013. Overall, the number of moose is down approximately 60 percent from the 2006 estimate of 8,840.

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In cabin country, homelessness exists VIRGINIA— Along the North Shore, where many vacation homes stand empty for portions of the year, some folks find themselves homeless.

not referred to or counted as homeless in the same way as someone who ends up living in a seasonal cabin because they have no other choice.

Leah Hall, housing project manager at the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (AEOA), said the homeless in Cook and Lake counties are often invisible; they do not conform to any stereotypes.

The causes of homelessness are complicated, but two factors contribute: lack of affordable housing and a gap between wages for seasonal work and the cost of housing.

They are folks sleeping in vehicles or couch-hopping and women fleeing domestic violence with children. They are folks without steady jobs or going through a change in employment or a health crisis.

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A few examples of homelessness from Cook County from the last several months include a man who was evicted because he could no longer pay his rent due to a cut in work hours because his job relies on the tourism business. Another couple lost their housing due to job loss, couldn’t find new work quickly and moved to Duluth because they felt their long-term chances of finding sustainable employment would be better there.

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Families who pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing are considered cost-burdened, particularly when they are in a lower income bracket. There is less money left over to spend on other basic necessities.

According to the Minnesota Housing Partnership, in 2014, 20 percent of homeowners and 41 percent of renters in Cook County and 24 percent of owners and 51 percent of renters in Lake County spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing.

The median home price in Cook County is $220,000 ($144,500 for Lake County). One quarter of households in Cook County rent, but there are only 71 units of affordable rentals available for every 100 extremely low-income renters. In Lake County, the numbers are even more stark with only 54 units of affordable housing available for every 100 extremely low-income renters.

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For now, the AEOA is helping to fill the gap for folks that are facing foreclosure, needing help with rental deposits and needing assistance heating their home.

There are offices in Two Harbors and Grand Marais where folks needing assistance can talk with a case manager.

For those looking to move into a rental, there might be help with rental and utility deposits to help folks get started and get stabilized, Hall said. Hall also pointed out that to stabilize, a household may also need educational training, food and transport, and the AEOA helps with these things as well.

“We look at the whole big picture of what is happening,” Hall said.

With folks going through foreclosure, Hall said, “even if things seem too far gone, or all hope is lost, people should call us, because we can give them advice as to how long to stay in their home, how to repair their credit in the future, how to prevent foreclosure and where to go next.”—Erin Altemus

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GRAND MARAIS— Backwoods explorers in the Superior National Forest may discover that little-used forest roads may not go to where the map shows they go. Actually, the remnants of the road will still go there, but encroaching brush will have rendered it impassable to any vehicle larger than an ATV. In the parlance of the U.S. Forest Service, such roads are known as minimum maintenance roads. These days, no one fills the potholes or cuts back the encroaching alder brush. About the only time an unmaintained road gets any attention is when it is used to access a logging job.

Jon Olson, forest engineer supervisor for the eastern portion of the Superior National Forest, says roads in the national forest’s road system are administrative roads, which means their primary purpose is forest management. The USFS doesn’t receive federal gas tax money to maintain its roads. It does not have an obligation maintain or snowplow roads for home and cabin owners.

Olson said high standard roads used to be graded five times a year. Now they are graded three or four times per year. Roadsides are not being brushed or mowed. Large culverts are being replaced using money from another funding source, the Great Lakes Initiative, which provides funds to replace traditional culvert pipes with open-bottomed ones intended to improve fish passage. But the Great Lakes Initiative funding cannot be used for general road maintenance.

Aging bridges are another matter. Last fall, the USFS closed a bridge over the Temperance River because it was no longer safe for vehicle traffic. The bridge, which has been closed to commercial traffic for over 15 years, dates to the 1920s, when it spanned the Cross River on Hwy. 61. The estimated cost of replacing exceeds $600,000, which is more than the Superior National Forest’s annual road maintenance budget.

A bigger problem is that Olson’s work area has 19 bridges over 50 years old. In fact, much of his road infrastructure is aging. Even the gravel road surfaces are starting to disappear as the binder material that holds the gravel in place deteriorates. Much of the eastern Superior National Forest road system needs to be resurfaced.

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They have also discussed USFS roads that primarily service residences and summer homes. He would like to find a way for the county to assume some of the maintenance responsibility.

Declining budgets for national forest road maintenance has been exacerbated by the need to cover the skyrocketing costs of fighting wildfires from the annual USFS budget. Legislation presently exists in Washington to fund large wildfire suppression, but it seems unlikely Congress will pass that and increase national forest budgets. For this reason, the USFS is studying the status of the road systems on every national forest. Superior National Forest officials stress that this study is strictly to gather information and not a plan to close or reduce maintenance on existing roads. Doing so would require environmental analysis and public engagement.

But that doesn’t mean roads in the Superior National Forest won’t continue to deteriorate or disappear beneath a shroud of brush. As that happens, folks who use those roads to hunt, fish or otherwise reach out-of-theway places may find their driving access to the woods slowly diminishing.­—Shawn Perich

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Olson says the road issues affect Cook County more than others, because USFS roads are an important part of the county’s transportation infrastructure. Most of the county-maintained roads run north from Lake Superior, primarily the well-known Sawbill, Caribou, Gunflint and Arrowhead trails. The only state highway, 61, follows the shore of Lake Superior. Inland, the primary east-west arteries and connectors are high-standard USFS gravel roads. Elsewhere in the national forest, arteries are state- or county-maintained roads.

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Build a Quinzee Story and Photos by Rosemary Bray

The term “quinzee” was coined by the Athabascans, the native people of Alaska. A quinzee is a man-made hollowed-out mound of snow created as an insulated shelter during cold winter outings. Aboriginals throughout the northern regions of the world from Canada to Scandinavia built quinzees to protect themselves during the harsh winters.

Nowadays, quinzees are built mainly for recreational purposes, such as winter camping. When done properly, the insulated walls of the shelter are highly effective in keeping you warm and protected from the wind. Here is a step-by-step process on how to build a quinzee.

Supplies needed: snow, shovels, warm layers of winter clothing, strong back and shoulders, snacks, water, snowshoes, random scooping supplies, good helpers, sticks and more snow.

Step 2 Once you have picked your spot, pack down a base to pile your snow. A base makes for a more distinguished perimeter, which is always subject to change, and a more solid floor for the interior of the quinzee. Snowshoes are excellent for this step.

Step 1 Find a spot in the woods or on a lake, where you have lots of space and snow to build your quinzee.

My quinzee building partners and I ventured off to Oberg Mountain bright and early on a sunny midweek morning to accomplish our mission of successfully constructing a quinzee. The thermometer on my vehicle read 3 degrees Fahrenheit and the winds were rather strong.

However, we were soon to find out that staying warm would not be an issue, because all of the shoveling and scooping is a very invigorating task.

This is easily an all-day project, so plan to have enough daylight to finish in time. We arrived at 10 a.m. and left at about 4:30 p.m. and within that time frame, managed to build a 2-3 person quinzee.

Step 3 The fun begins—time to start shoveling. Snow on snow on snow. You will stay plenty warm and get thirsty, so layer accordingly. Bring water and take breaks as needed. We made our pile about 7-8 feet tall; the height, of course, depends on how big you want your quinzee to be. When completed, this quinzee could probably fit about 5 to 6 people.

Mix up different temperatures of snow by flipping the snow over the mound with your shovel as your pile progresses. The mix of different snow temperatures will aid in the sintering process, or the bonding of the snow necessary in forming a solid, cohesive wall.

While you are piling the snow, use your shovel to form it into a dome-like shape. Do not pack too hard because that will make the mound denser and therefore difficult to hollow out.

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STEP 4

Once your mound is complete, let it set for 2-3 hours. This process, called “sintering”, yields solid and sturdy walls. The snow crystallizes and bonds together during this time. Go for a ski or hike, or take a lunch break.

STEP 6

As one of you digs out the snow, the other should go find 6-to 12-inch long sticks to poke in on the exterior of the mound as a measuring tool. This will give the scooper on the inside an accurate limit of where to dig so the walls have a good thickness and do not cave in.

STEP 5

Back to work. Now comes the part we’ve all been waiting for: hollowing out the dome. Start by making a small tunnel for the entrance. The smaller the hole, the more protected the inside will be from the wind and cold air.

This is a teamwork activity. A lot of outdoor programs will take their students out to build quinzees as a mandatory part of their curriculum. Figuring out a system among the group helps immensely for both efficiency and sufficiency. What worked well for us was having someone hollow out the mound on the inside, while the other stood at the entrance and shoveled out all the excess snow. We switched on and off between the tasks many times throughout the construction.

A helpful tip is to bring a mat or pad to kneel on while scooping out the inside. We didn’t bring one and our knees and butts got pretty cold.

STEP 7 Continue hollowing and digging and scooping until you get it as big as you want. Better to have too much snow than too little so you at least have the choice to go bigger. Less space in relation to the numbert of people using the quinzee is best, because the air will be warmer.

The excess snow on the inside of the shelter can be made into beds or seats.

Layering the base with balsam and spruce branches will provide warmer ground to sit on too. As I mentioned earlier, you will find yourself staying very warm and probably sweating during the building process. Later on, the moisture of the sweat will be trapped in your clothes and will get very cold. To prevent hypothermia, bring an extra change of clothes to switch into for the night.

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Mark Hansen built this tiny house on wheels and is living in it for the winter. | SUBMITTED

Shrinking Homes a Growing Trend

By Joseph Friedrichs

A growing trend in the housing market seems to have its roots in something natural, realistic and geared toward the future: The tiny-house movement.

Hansen has been fascinated with tiny homes nearly all of his life. | SUBMITTED

“I’ve talked to a lot of people in (Cook) County who think they have too much house,” said Mark Hansen, a builder of small homes who lives in Grand Marais but is staying in his tiny house on wheels in Duluth for the winter. “It costs them so much to heat these big structures. But I think the handwriting is on the wall. Most people are going to start living with less.”

It wasn’t long ago that building the largest house possible was considered the way to live and part of what constituted living the American dream. But Hansen, one of the founders of the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, has been fascinated with tiny housing for nearly all his life.

He said the size of a house is relatable to another of his life’s passions: boating.

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“There is a saying that big boats mean big problems, and little boats mean little problems,” Hansen said. “The same goes for housing. Little house, little problems.”

And while it may be an upward trend, the idea of building, owning and ultimately living in a small house isn’t for everyone, Hansen acknowledged. After all, a tiny house is often about the size of a deluxe ice-fishing shack, though many tiny homes feature a loft. A structure of that size leaves little room for luxury items. For example, there aren’t many tiny homes that feature giant televisions or bulky sofas. Most tiny houses don’t have a bathroom or shower inside. The size of the house all but eliminates the option to host a social gathering.

Often times, Hansen said, building a small house comes down to practicality and/or necessity with respect to people’s finances.

In Cook County, new residents often find the housing market to be difficult at best. Spaces to rent are scarce and the option to buy or build isn’t always realistic.

Hansen said some young couples arrive in the region looking for land and are forced to merely pitch a tent until better accommodations arrive. Others, looking for something more reliable than a nylon roof, have opted to build a tiny house, even if it is only a temporary living situation.

Hansen himself is no stranger to living in a small home. He spends months out of each year living in his mobile 72 squarefoot house, also known as a gypsy wagon, parked at a Duluth marina.

“Rather than buy an apartment, we went this route,” he said. “It’s a lot more fun and interesting.”

Building a tiny house and eventually living in it is often centered on economic benefits and minimalizing one’s impact on the planet. And while such notions might be genuine, if not necessary, when it comes to actually living in a small home, there can be mixed results.

Betsy Jorgenson, along with her hus-

“You really have to minimize ... Or you need to have a storage unit … Or just accept it and become a true minimalist.”

-Betsy Jorgenson band, Odin, recently spent a year living in a 12 by 16 foot house. The structure, which Betsy described as a “stick frame,” was located on property they own near the Kadunce River. After she became pregnant, the move into the tiny house was one of necessity, not necessarily planetary consciousness.

“It was not a lifestyle decision,” Jorgenson said. “It was an economic decision.”

Jorgenson said she knows at least five other people or couples in Cook County who also took to living in small houses while they waited for something larger to build or buy. And while Jorgenson was quick to point out that people in third-world countries have been living in tiny homes and gotten by with “a lot less for a lot longer,” it simply wasn’t the right fit for her blossoming family.

“I think the demographic is really, really small that can pull this off,” she said. “I think it’s a cool thing, but you just can’t have a lot of stuff.”

There is little question that living in a small house takes creativity, flexibility and ingenuity. As longtime residents of the Northern Wilds who are both active and well-adjusted to living simply, one might consider the Jorgenson couple ideal candidates for living small.

So why didn’t the situation in a small house bode well for them? One word: space.

“You really have to minimize,” she said. “Or you need to have a storage unit … Or just accept it and become a true minimalist.”

The Jorgenson family has since moved to a newly-built home also located on their property near the Kadunce, this one boasting a 24-by-30 footprint. While she toiled through her year in the tiny home, it helped to see her future living quarters being erected nearby, she said.

“When you’re doing something with a challenge, you want it to have an end point,” she said. “That is what helped me get through it.”

Space issues aside, tiny houses are big on saving money.

A 100 square-foot house can be built for approximately $8,000, according to Hansen. These structures are easy to heat or keep cool as seasons fluctuate. In addition, tiny houses can often be built without having to obtain a building permit. And on a positive side, not having much space means you don’t need (or simply can’t have) many possessions, which can also be viewed as a means of saving money.

A gypsy wagon on wheels.| SUBMITTED

While even the staunchest supporter of tiny homes should admit the lifestyle is not for everyone, there is no question building smaller homes is a trend in this country.

Whether this trend comes from a standpoint of economic necessity or environmental consciousness isn’t so much the point. The reason more people will gravitate toward small houses, according to Hansen, is because the time has come to address the size of structures we dwell in.

“This is all going to happen,” Hansen said, “It’s just a matter of people getting wise to limited resources and more and more people on the planet.”

As for Jorgenson, a multi-level mansion might not be in her future plans, but another tiny house won’t be happening either.

The interior of Hansen’s gypsy wagon is carefully planned and aesthetically pleasing. | SUBMITTED

“I wouldn’t try it again, though there is a certain lure to casting away your possessions,” she said. “But camping is a good fix for that.”

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NorthShore ArtScene

www.NorthShoreArtScene.com

By Joan Farnam

March swings in with lots of live music in venues across the county and great art exhibits up and down the North Shore.

First up is the Fiber Revolution: Art Quilts exhibit at the Grand Marais Art Colony featuring a wide range of quilts by nationally acclaimed fiber artists. The exhibit continues through March 8.

The Johnson Heritage Post opens for the season with “Illumination: Igniting the Imagination,” an exhibit organized by the Spirit of the Wilderness, with an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 13. Artists of every age will be included in this show, which continues through March 29.

Sivertson Gallery’s Inuit Premiere is March 20-21 this year featuring new carvings by Ron Apangalook and Toonoo Sharky and other Canadian and Alaskan carvers. The opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. March 20.

There are lots of art exhibits in the galleries in Thunder Bay this month, too.

The Carly Waito, Damara Genda and Julia Pott exhibits at the Definitely Superior Art Gallery in Thunder Bay continue through March 14. Then the staff set up the exhibit at the gallery for Urban Infill- Art in the Core 9, a Waterfront District-wide event featuring 18 projects, 350 artists exhibiting and/or performing in 17 venues throughout the district. Urban Infill-Art in the Core events are held March 29-31.

“Angry Crow,” sumi-e ink on maple, by Ann Klefstad, is one of the works in the exhibit “Flight” at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe in Duluth. Bridget Riversmith is also exhibiting in the show, which will be up through April.

The gala opening event for the art exhibit at Def-Sup will be March 29 at 7 p.m. (EST). The Lakehead University Juried Student Exhibit continues at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery through March 1. The exhibits “Leo Yerxa: Impermanence,” and “Drawn from Legends: Works from the Permanent Collection” conclude March 8.

Two new exhibits open at the gallery in March, too. An installation by Canadian artist Kim Adams, “One for the Road,” opens with an reception and artist talk at 7:30 p.m. (EST) March 13. The Lakehead University Major Studio Exhibition opens March 20.

Also in Thunder Bay, Gallery 33 is featuring work by Lakehead Visual Arts, a group exhibit of 31-member artists featuring oils, acrylics, prints and drawings.

The Ahnishnabae Art Gallery will hold a Grand Opening for its new space in the Waterfront District at 18 S. Court St. on March 20. The event will also feature the unveiling of a commissioned work by Randy Thomas at the Thunder Bay Casino.

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This hand-dyed, hand-spun, Swedish style Korkbragd by Julie Arthur is at the Kah-Nee-Tah Gallery in Lutsen.

“The Garden Series: Lavender and Lace,” oil over acrylic, by Sandi Pillbsury. The painting is on exhibit at a show at the Agora Gallery in New York City through March 3.

In Two Harbors, The Waterfront Gallery is exhibiting North Shore artists through May. The artists include Jody Tonder, Debbie Cooter, Lisa Stauffer, Rose Kadera Vastilla, Dick Cooter, Michael Tonder, and Michelle Ronning.

In Duluth the Duluth Art Institute is featuring two exhibits this month: “Natural Contract” with works by Ryuta Nakajima & Aya Kawaguchi through April 19, and “A Retrospective Response,” an exhibit of paintings by members of the Lake Superior Watercolor Society

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through May 1.

The Zeitgeist Cafe in Duluth is exhibiting new bodies of work by Ann Klefstad and Bridget Riversmith.

The Minnesota Ballet will present “Sleeping Beauty” at the DECC Symphony Hall March 27-28. For tickets, visit tix.com.

In other art news, the Grand Marais Art Colony will welcome two Artists-in-Residence March 16-29: Mary Bergs, an installation artist, and Marty Harris, a design-

er, printmaker and painter. Each will hold an open studio to talk about their work on Saturday, March 21. Harris will speak from 1-2 p.m. in the Print Studio and Bergs will present from 2-3 p.m in the Founders Hall.

A community engagement project with the artists is planned as well for March 28, with Harris leading it from 9 a.m to noon and Bergs from 1-4 p.m. For more information, call the Art Colony at 387-2737.

Cooper Ternes has set up a wood-turning workshop in The Garage, where he

will have space to work as well as a retail space for his turned bowls. Jill Terrill, who owns and manages The Garage, said there are two more spaces available in the building for artists. For more information, call 387-1004.

The Cook County Historical Society is planning an exhibit on the history of music in Cook County entitled “Music from the Tip o’ the Arrowhead” that will open May 24. The community is invited to contribute music memorabilia, photographs and concert posters from the ‘20s to the present and can include everything from town hall polkas, country, jazz and rock bands, church choral groups and more that trace the rich history of music in Cook County over the years.

The exhibit will include videos and an electric piano from the old East Bay Hotel. Donations are being accepted to help mount this exhibit. See www.cookcountyhistory.org or call 387-2883. The deadline to donate items is March 15. The originals will be copied and returned.

Noah Prinsen has created eight original prints for the book, “The Hungry Coast: Fables from the North Shore of Minnesota” by Mariais Brand. The book will be released this spring.

Also in Prinsen news, he recently created three woodcut prints of Minnesota Nobel Laureates for “Nobel Creations,” an exhibit from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm currently on display at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis.

Prinsen currently resides in Asheville, N.C.

Kim Adams will be exhibiting his work at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery March 13-May 24 including this multi-media piece “Toaster Work Wagon.”

Kah-Nee-Tah Gallery in Lutsen is featuring new work by landscape photographer William Gillis Rosemount, and new prints by Gunflint Trail photographer Nace Hagemann as well as hand-dyed scarves, shawls and rugs by Tofte fiber artist Julie Arthur.

Tim Young is exhibiting his paintings at the Coho Cafe through May. Thunder Bay potter Fritz Lehmburg is teaching pottery classes at the Baggage Building Arts Centre in Thunder Bay. Twin Cities photographer Roger Nordstrom, who exhibited at the Johnson Heritage Post with Grand Portage photographer Travis Novitsky last year, will have 24 of the photographs from his series “Time•Water•Earth” published in LensWork Magazine, an international fine art bimonthly photography publication.

Noah Prinsen has created eight prints for “The Hungry Coast: Fables from the North Shore of Minnesota” a book by Mariais Brand that will be published soon.

Painter Sandi Pillsbury has work in a show at the Agora Gallery in New York City entitled “Elemental Realms.” The exhibit runs through through March 3.

The art galleries in Cook County are planning an event over the Memorial Day weekend. Participating galleries include Sivertson Gallery, Betsy Bowen Studio, the Grand Marais Art Colony, The Garage, Last Chance Gallery and Kah-NeeTah Gallery. They are also working on a Gallery Guide. Stay tuned.

The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council awarded career development grants to three Cook County residents: • Briand Morrison, $3,000. to help in the production of a multimedia performance combining a slide show of his father, George Morrison’s, art with his jazz

“Sedna’s Repose,” etching and aquatint, by Tim Pitsiulak, is one of the new prints at Sivertson Gallery for the Inuit Premiere, March 20-21. guitar playing at eight locations in the state; • Amy Schmidt, $3,000, to help support work with editor Patrick Donnely to complete her poetry manuscript: “Wearing a Dress of Onion Skins” and • Erin Altemus, $1,680, to help support work with editor Ben Barnhart on a full manuscript edit and consulta-

tion for her memoir: “The Idealists’ Daughter.”

Other regional organizations who received support grants include The Good Harbor Hill Players, Lake Superior Community Theatre in Silver Bay and the North Shore Music Association.

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Spring

Home & Garden Show On The CLE Grounds

Inuit Premiere 2015 Friday, March 20 5-7 p.m.

Opening Reception

with introduction of guests & poetry reading

Saturday March 21

APRIL 10, 11 & 12, 2015

1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

Throat singing performances

6 p.m.

Guest speaker Kate Vasyliw of Dorset Fine Arts & throat singing performance

Friday: 4 pm - 9 pm Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm See The Latest In Home And Garden Products Over 300 Exhibit Spaces Plus Craft and Merchandise Tables Free Seminars . Free Parking Country Market On Site . Attendance Prizes $2 ADMISSION

VISIT ALL SIX BUILDINGS www.cle.on.ca

$2 ADMISSION

Arvik Amuasijartuq (Bowhead In Amautik)

by Tim Pitsiulak

www.sivertson.com • 35th Anniversary Year 14 W. Wisconsin Street • P.O. Box 178 • Grand Marais, MN 55604 218.387.2491 | 888.880.4369 • info@sivertson.com

E.A.T.S. 2015 ENRICHING ACADEMICS THROUGH SUSTENANCE THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 6 - 8 P.M. Cook County Middle/High School Only 150 tickets will be sold! $25.00 each Tickets are available in the K-12 office, Java Moose, Blue Water Cafe or from any CCSDEF board member: Hal Greenwood, Pat Campanaro, Doug Sanders, Annie DeBevec, Harry Drabik, Dianne Peterson, Gene Erickson, Susan Lappi, Lorelei Livingston, Beth Schwarz, Ann Sullivan

Partake in a delectable array of taste samples from 10+ Cook County Restaurants and Food Vendors Bid on any of the quality silent auction items donated by local businesses and individuals.

Enjoy fine musical entertainment while you socialize with fellow supporters of the ISD 166, Cook County Schools *The Cook County School District 166 Education Foundation awards grants to projects and activities that provide extraordinary educational opportunities for students in ISD 166. Over $92,000 in grants have been awarded since 2002.

Ask someone who has attended in the past; this is a “must-be-there” event!

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Featuring Minnesota-made artwork, paintings, prints and unique, handcrafted items such as fine silver jewelry, beautiful beeswax candles, gorgeous ceramic pieces, along with hand-felted and knit scarves, hats and purses.

*Join our free book exchange, just bring a book and take a book* Gallery & Cottages Open Year Round

Winter Gallery Hours: W-F 10-6 • Sat 10-5 • Sun 10-4 4210 W Highway 61 Lutsen, MN 55612 Located just between Lutsen and Grand Marais 218.387.2585 • www.kahneetah.com Find us on Facebook @ Kah-Nee-Tah Gallery & Cottages And Instagram @kahneetahgallerylutsen

JOIN US FOR OUR

End of Winter Sale MARCH 20TH & 21ST

20% off scarves and hats Plus up to 75% off select items throughout the Gallery!

Charlie Parr plays at Lutsen on March 23 as part of DuLutsen Music Festival. | SUBMITTED

Northern Wilds 2015 Restaurant Awards Now - March 31.

What restaurant in the Northern Wilds region has your favorite pizza, wine, server or view? Vote now for your favorite restaurants and win a $50 gift certificate with the 2015 Northern Wilds Reader’s Choice Restaurant Awards. You may not choose the same restaurant for more than three categories or your entry will be disqualified. Only one entry per person. Vote online at www. northernwilds.com, mail in your ballot or drop it off in the office.

Voting ends March 31. Happy voting!

Epic Adventures Snowshoe Festival March 1

Nipigon’s annual snowshoe festival is back. Michael Elliott, owner of Epic Adventures and host of this much enjoyed event, said the festival didn’t take place last year. But due to local demand, he’ll be offering it on March 1, at the Nipigon Community Centre. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Some snowshoes will be available at the festival.

The festival has three events. First are the races, which include four categories. The novice course is 4.5 km, intermediate is 7.5 km, and the advanced is 15 km. There is a 1 km course for children, youth and seniors. Once the races are underway, there will be a walking tour for people not interested in competitive snowshoeing. Their course, which is also the one the novice racers fol-

low, will go along the Baldspot Trail System. The third event will be a variety of games, including dizzy sprints and snowshoe toss.

Elliot explained the reason snowshoeing is such a popular recreational pursuit, is it isn’t hard to do. “If you can walk, you can snowshoe,” he said. “It’s great exercise, especially if you’re breaking a trail. It can be done anywhere there’s a snow-covered green space. Best of all, it offers people an opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and set their own pace.”

In recent years, snowshoeing has exploded as a sport. There are over 100 races in North America. The United States Snowshoe Association is trying to get snowshoeing into the Winter Olympics. At the 2013 Nipigon Snowshoe Festival, the race between the advanced members was riveting. Three people started, and midway through, one man dropped out. The two remaining had a three-minute gap between them. And just as they were approaching the finish line, the man lagging behind sprinted past the man in the lead and won by six seconds.

If you would like to learn more about this fun-filled grassroots festival, contact Elliot at www.epicadventures.ca. Or you can meet him in person at the event. He won’t be hard to find, he’ll be wearing a long orange sweater. He explained his sisterin-law knitted it for him years ago. The bright garment was initially intended for hunting, but over the years it became Michael’s outerwear at the onset of winter. And the local people always know when the snowy season is over, because he puts it away until the next year.

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Wood Week

Sleeping Giant Loppet

The North House Folk School is devoting a week to wood-working in its many forms. Courses include bowl carving, spoon carving, wooden bowl turning, carving simple wooden toys, engraving numbers and letters, and Wood Week at North more. Students will have House Folk School the opportunity to visit with other carvers and instructors on Saturday and choose from a variety of mini-courses, such as a field trip to the Grand Portage National Monument or a snowshoe hike through the woods. For more info, or to register online, visit www.northhouse.org.

The Sleeping Giant Loppet is a mass participation ski festival that offers fun for the whole family and challenges competitive athletes. The Loppet takes place in the wilderness setting of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. It features multiple events with distances for skiers of all abilities including an 8-km mini-loppet. If you’re ready to increase your distance or work on your speed, then the rolling 20-km Marie Louise lake loop is for you. The popular 35-km tour is a relaxed event that takes in the scenic vistas and challenging terrain of the storied Burma Trail. For the ultimate challenge, register for the Loppet’s flagship event, the 50-km classic or skate distance. www. sleepinggiantloppet.ca

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March 7

Civil War Experience At Area Libraries March 6, 9

The annual Trout Derby takes place at Gunflint Lake on March 8. | COOK COUNTY RIDGE RIDERS

Arn Kind, a member of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment (a reenactment group from Fort Snelling) will present an interactive program at several North Shore libraries in March. His presentation will include artifacts, uniforms and equipment that participants can handle, observe and interact with as part of a hands-on experience in living history. Kind’s group is known for its authenticity and has appeared in many documentaries and feature films such as “The Blue and the Gray,” “North & South, Glory,” “Gettysburg,” “Dances With Wolves” and “Gods and Generals.” Kind will present March 6 at the Silver Bay Public Library at 1 p.m. and at the Grand Marais Public Library at 6 p.m. On March 9, Kind will present at the Two Harbors Public Library at 6 p.m. www. arrowhead.lib.mn.us

Trout Derby March 8

Annual Trout Derby Picnic and Fishing Contest starts at the Gunflint Lake boat access. Register there between 9 and 11 a.m. You must be signed in before going fishing. Cost is $10 for snowmobile club members and $20 for non-members. Remember to get your trout stamp on your fishing license.

All fish must be in by 1 p.m. Cook out with fish burgers, hot dogs, brats and burgers, with all the extras included.

There will be raffles and prizes such as a gas auger, smoker, and even cash. www.boreal.org/ridgeriders

Naniboujou Lodge and Restaurant

GALLERY 33

Artists-in-Residence Mary Bergs & Marty Harris Saturday, March 21

Open Studios | Visit artists at work 1 – 3pm

Spring Writer’s Workshop Weekend with author Peter Blau

Saturday, March 28

Half-day Classes | $15 9am: Mark Making & Picture Building 1pm: Quilting Bee /Artist Salon

May 1st & 2nd

Fee includes: 2 nights lodging, all meals, workshop, all taxes & gratuities.

For more information about Peter Blau please visit www.writecreatecommunicate.com Contact Naniboujou for reservations.

Space is limited.

— Call for Weekend Packages & Dining to March 15 — Located on Highway 61 just 14 miles east of Grand Marais

www.naniboujou.com 218.387.2688

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Art Gallery, Shop & Classes Come see us at our new location on the corner of Balsam & River Street: 4 Balsam Street, Thunder Bay

We also have a meeting space and wedding registry!

Grand Marais Art Colony

gallery.33.thunderbay@gmail.com

Classes | Events | Gallery Store (218) 387-2737 www.grandmaraisartcolony.org 120 W. 3rd Ave | Grand Marais

(807) 286-4233

Dog Days of Winter March 8

Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery

This just-for-fun event takes place at Trail Center Lodge on the Gunflint Trail.

There will be sled dog races, skijoring, a snowman competition, snow sculptures and more. Have some winter fun while winter lasts. See www.dogdaysofwinter.info for more information and event times.

On the Harbor, Grand Marais, MN

Illuminations: Igniting Imagination

Seedy Sunday

March 13-April 29

March 8

Curated by Spirit of the Wilderness Church

From 1-4 p.m., you can bring non-hybrid seeds to trade at a seed swap, help at the Baggage Building in Marina Park, Thunder Bay. Seeds not traded by 2 p.m. are put up for sale for $1. Workshops about seed synergy in the community and seed cleaning will take place in the adjacent Mariner’s Hall. Displays by local gardeners and refreshments are also part of the event. Contact JoAnne at henderslu@yahoo.ca for more information.

Hours: Sun-Mon 1-4 pm,Wed-Sat 10 am-4 pm, Closed Tues 115 W. Wisconsin St. · 218-387-2314 www.johnsonheritagepost.org

E.A.T.S.

Cook County Emergency Services Conference

Emergency Responders — Save the Date —

April 24 & 25, 2015

March 12

Sample an array of food from more than 10 different vendors and restaurants while Enriching Academics Through Sustenance, better known as the E.A.T.S. event. The event will be located at the Cook County Middle/High School from 6-8 p.m. and will include a silent auction Nipigon Ice Fest takes place March 13-15. | SUBMITTED and live music for your enjoyment. Only 150 tickets will be sold at $25, so don’t delay. Tickets are available in the K-12 Cook County Mid- ing routes they are going to climb the following day. dle/High School office, Java Moose, Blue Water Café On Saturday morning, the ice climbers will meet at the or from any CCSDEF board member. www.cookcounty- frozen waterfall across from McCollum’s Reflection Lake schools.org Resort, 26 miles north of Nipigon—some of the world’s best ice to traverse and navigate.

Nipigon Ice Fest March 13-15

Among climbers, Nipigon has a reputation for its wonderful walls of ice. The town has attracted many accomplished athletes, including the Bozeman Ice Climbing Competition’s gold medal winner, Kendra Stritch. On the weekend of March 13-15, Nipigon will host its annual Ice Fest. Sterling Ropes has taken an interest in this event, and is sending a fleet of demonstration ropes for the clinics.

The fun begins Friday evening at the Nipigon Legion, located on Railway Street, where everyone is welcome to come down and listen to the Chrome Domes band. The ice climbers will be there to discuss and plan the challeng-

TONY BUETTNER of BLUEZONES: LIVE LONGER, BETTER will speak at the

Dog Days of Winter

On Sunday, the ice climbers will have more opportunities to train. But this time no clinic or instructors will be available at the site. Greg Martin from Nemo Tents will offer a Winter Camping Clinic.

March 8, 2015

For more information, contact event coordinator Krya Bremer at nipigonicefest@hotmail.com.—Kim Casey

8 dog-6 dog-4 dog-kid runs

SAT, APRIL 4

in Grand Marais

Monday, March 23, 6 p.m.

Come learn about how our community can enhance health, longevity & happiness. www.SawtoothMountainClinic.org

Youth Activities

Dog Derbys

2 catagories: 12 and under & 12 and over 9 a.m. - Noon

At the Cook County Community Center & 4H Log Cabin

Visit with the Easter Bunny

9 a.m. - Noon

Photos with the Easter Bunny

Easter Egg Hunt

Free Family Fun

Skijoring Bonfire Snowman Competion

6 Annual

Arrowhead Center for the Arts

Citizen volunteers interested in supporting and participating in the exercise are encouraged to contact Jim Wiinanen, Cook County Emergency Management Director, 218-387-3059 or jim.wiinanen@co.cook.mn.us

Saturday evening, the Legion will host two events. Professional ice climber, Whit Magro, will speak about his alpine climbing experiences. Adventure writer Dave Pagel will read stories from his recently published book, “Cold Feet: Stories of a Middling Climber.” Dave will present a retrospective of his adventures, ranging from Yosemite big walls and crumbling desert spires to the icy flanks of the Matterhorn and the mythic North Face of the Eiger.

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Outside the Cook County Community Center

$5 Child, $10 Family Refreshments & Snacks Raffle, Dessert Walk And Much More!

Thank You for Your Support!

Dairy Queen , Grand Marais State Bank, Johnson’s Food, North Shore Care Center, Security State Bank, and Swanson & Heeren, P.C.

Hot Dogs & Marshmallows to Roast, Coco Teepee on the Lake Snow Sculptures Where? Trail Center Lodge 1/2 way up the Gunflint Trail For more information:

218-388-2214 dogdaysofwinter.info dogdaysofwinter.net

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St. Urho’s Day in Finland March 13-15

The legend of St. Urho says that Urho chased the grasshoppers out of ancient Finland, thus saving the grape crop and the jobs of Finnish vineyard workers. He did this by uttering the phrase: “Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen” (Grasshopper, grasshopper, go to hell!).

Join the town of Finland for a weekend of fun. Friday evening there is a Miss Helmi beauty and talent competition.

Saturday there is a pancake breakfast and tug-of-war, followed by a parade at noon with music, food, crafts and more. www.friendsoffinland.org/st-urhos-day.

DuLutsen North of North Music & Ski Festival March 18-23

A handful of Duluth’s top musicians are joining forces for a six-day blowout of great music to accompany the Midwest’s best spring skiing. The line-up includes the Basement Tapes Band on Thursday at 8 p.m., the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank on Friday at 9:30 p.m. followed by Tired Eyes at 11 p.m., Brothers Burn Mountain on Saturday at 3:15 p.m., Sarah Krueger at 4:45 p.m., Woodblind at 9:30 p.m. and Red Mountain at 11 p.m.

On Sunday Actual Wolf will play at 3:30 p.m. and on Monday, Charlie Parr will play at 8 p.m. All music is at Papa Charlie’s in Lutsen. See www.lutsen.com for updates to the DuLutsen music schedule.

FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 13TH 6-8pm Miss Helmi Talent and Beauty Contest – various stops around town 8pm-Midnight Music at the West Branch

Sivertson Gallery Presents Inuit Premiere

8:30pm-Midnight Music at the Four Seasons

by Tara Nelson and friends

March 20-21

SATURDAY, MARCH 14TH 8-10:30 am – Finland MN Historical Society’s Pancake Breakfast, and Craft Vendors at the Clair Nelson Center Noon Tug of War across the Baptism River Noon-1 pm Parade through Finland on Highway 1 Call Cheri Bischoff at 353-7743 to register for parade.

Refreshments before, during and after the parade Finland Fire and Rescue. Four Seasons Beer and Mojakka Truck

Beaver Bay Finland Silver Bay Lutsen

1-3 pm Clair Nelson Center – Craft Fair, Lunch, kids games and polka music 1-4 pm Music at Four Seasons

by Tara Nelson and friends 1-5 pm Music at Our Place by The Curry Band 8 pm-Midnight Music at West Branch 8:30 pm-Midnight Music at the Four Seasons

by Tara Nelson and friends

SUNDAY, MARCH 15TH

* Pay-at-the-Pump * 24-hour card reader * Speedpass Pumps * No Ethanol in our Super Unleaded * Also Diesel at some locations

4 pm Raffle Ticket Drawing and Door Prizes, West Branch

Pre-buy St. Urhos T-shirts & Buttons Here.

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The Inuit Premiere, featuring a large collection of new carvings and prints by Canadian Inuit and Alaskan artists, opens at noon in Siivis in Duluth with throat singing performances followed by an opening reception at Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais.

The reception is from 5-7 p.m. There will be a brief throat singing demonstration and a poetry reading

by Taqrilik Partridge. Refreshments will be served.

The Inuit Premiere continues on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. with throat singing performances at 1 and 3 p.m. At 6 p.m., guest speaker Kate Vasyliw of Dorset Fine Arts will give a presentation on the rich history of Cape Dorset, its people, artists’ culture and the legendary print shop established there. All events are free and open to the public. A throat singing performance will end the weekend. www.sivertson.com

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Bare Root Plant Sale The Blue Moose is offering bare root stock in the following categories:

AmericInn Lodge and Suites

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• Pool with 110 ft. Figure 8 Waterslide

• Breakfast Buffet with Waffle Bar 150 Mensing Drive • Rooms and Suites with Silver Bay, MN Whirlpools and Fireplaces 800-634-3444, • High Speed Wireless Internet 218 226-4300 silverbay.mn@americinn.com • Near State Parks and National Forest www.americinn.com • Snowmobile Trail Access from Our Lot

Shade Trees, Shrubs, Apple Trees, Blueberries, and Raspberries For a complete listing and order form go to our website at www.thebluemoosemn.com or call 218-387-2182.

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OPENING MAY 8th!

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Sleeping Beauty, Minnesota Ballet March 27-28

March 5-9

The Minnesota Ballet presents Sleeping Beauty at the DECC in Duluth at 7 p.m. March 27 and 28. Journey back in time to the Middle Ages, when richly-costumed dancers light up a stark stone castle and its drawbridge. The ballet brings to life the story of Princess Rose who pricks her finger on the forbidden spinning wheel. She lies asleep in an enchantment while fairies battle over her fate and a prince struggles to rescue her from the Forest of Thorns. See www.minnesotaballet.org for more info.

• 9 Wood Courses • Saturday Mini-Courses • Saturday Excursions • Community Gatherings

Snow Boundaries at Spirit Mountain

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March 27-28

Red Bull Snow Boundaries is a 30-mile snowmobile course that mixes elements of snocross, hill climbing, cross country and ice racing. Riders will tackle water skips, log crawls, rock chutes and more, with $100,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs for those who go the distance. The race starts at Duluth’s Spirit Mountain Resort. There are several racing classes that include women, amateurs and legends (40+ years old). There will be several viewing areas at Spirit Mountain for spectator viewing. See www.redbull.com for more info.

Urban Infill—Art in the Core 9 March 28-29

Urban Infill-Art in the Core 9, Thunder Bay’s premiere art/music/performance event, features 18 projects and 350 artists at 18 different locations in the Waterfront District in downtown Thunder Bay. Urban Infill-Art in the Core was developed by the Definitely Superior Art Gallery as a means to revitalize the Thunder Bay’s core downtown by filling empty spaces with new, exciting, multi-disciplinary contemporary art for a weekend of celebration. The gallery itself opens three art shows with an opening reception from 7 p.m. March 28. Tour guides will be available throughout the evening for tours of the downtown art/ performance sites. More than 1,500 attended last year. For more info, visit www. definitelysuperior.com

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Songwriter Series March 2

March 4

Moors & McCumber

Dance Attic

March 9

March 11

Chris Koza of Rogue Valley

March 16

Lucy Michell

w/ John Munson & Chan Poling

March 23

TUESDAYS

OPEN MIC with BOYD BLOMBERG THURSDAYS

DANCE PARTY with DJ Beavstar

Dave Simonett

FRIDAYS

March 18

COMEDY NIGHT

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Northern Wilds Calendar of Events Weekly Events Sunday

Presentation at Caribou Highlands Lodge 7 p.m.

www.caribouhighlands.com Classical Music Bluefin Grille in Tofte 6-8 p.m. www.bluefinbay.com

Monday

Let it Be A Celebration of the Music

Marais 7 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

Auditorium 7:30 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com

Timmy Haus Gun Flint Tavern Grand

Feb. 27, Friday

The Thunderheads Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 9 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

Feb. 27-28

Central Canada Outdoor Show

SportsDome Thunder Bay www.tbchamber.ca

Feb. 28, Saturday

Cherry Dirt Cascade Lodge Restaurant

& Pub 7-9 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com The Thunderheads Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 9 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 1, Sunday

Epic Adventures Snowshoe Festival Nipigon www.epicadventures.ca

Lake Superior College Nordic Spirit Ski Race at Spirit Mountain Nordic Center

Duluth 14k and 26k races. www.nordicspirit.duluthxc.com Steve Blexrud Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 7:30 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com Moors and McCumber Monday Songwriter Series Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8 p.m. www.lutsen.com

March 2, Monday

Macro Photography of Wildflowers Workshop Boulder Lake Learning Center

Duluth 6-9 p.m. www.boulderlake.org

Moors and McCumber CD Release at

Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8 p.m. www.lutsen.com

of the Beatles Thunder Bay Community

March 7, Saturday

Sleeping Giant Loppet Thunder Bay www.

sleepinggiantloppet.ca

Tour Duluth Celebration of Cross Country Skiing Hartley Nature Center www. duluthxc.com/tour-duluth Duluth Women’s Expo DECC 9 a.m.4 p.m. www.duluthwomensexpo.com

Snowshoe Hike from Cove Point Lodge to Beaver Bay Trailhead (3.6 miles). Meet at

Beaver Bay Trailhead Parking Lot on Lax Lake Rd. 10 a.m. www.shta.org Mustache March Run Duluth 5 p.m. www. momentumracingevents.com Jim McGowan Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com Joe Paulik Sven & Ole’s Grand Marais 7-9 p.m. www.joepaulik.com The Big Wu Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 9 p.m.-1 a.m. www.lutsen.com

March 8, Sunday

Black River Revue Gun Flint Tavern

Grand Marais 8:30 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 13-15

Charles J Futterer Memorial Open Bonspiel Grand Marais www.cookcountycurlingclub.com

Nipigon Ice Festival St. Urho’s Day Celebration in Finland www.friendsoffinland.org/st-urhos-day

Thursday

March 14, Saturday St. Patrick’s Day

Irish Whiskey and Beer Tasting Menu at Bluefin Grille in Tofte 6 p.m. www.bluefinbay.com

March 9, Monday

March 4, Wednesday

Minnesota’s Civil War Experience Presented by Arn Kind of Historical Experiences Two Harbors Public Library at 6

Public Library 6-8 p.m. www.grandmaraislibrary.org

Ron James Pedal to the Metal Tour

Pianist Steward Goodyear Performs

Chris Koza of Rogue Valley Monday

March 14-22

Nordic Ski Centre Thunder Bay www.skinationals2015.com

March 15, Sunday

March 5, Thursday

Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com

Beethoven’s Emperor with the Thunder

Songwriter Series Papa Charlie’s Lutsen

Lehto & Wright Apres Ski Acoustic Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 3:30-5:30 p.m. www.lutsen.com Jim & Michele Miller Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 7 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com Pavlo Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com

March 11, Wednesday

Art and Elixir Clyde Iron Works Duluth 5:30-

Technology Open House Grand Marais

Bay Symphony Orchestra Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www. tbca.com

March 5-9

Wood Week at North House Folk School Grand Marais www.northhouse.org

March 5-21

p.m. www.arrowhead.lib.mn.us

8-10 p.m. www.lutsen.com

Dave Simonett-Spotlight North at

Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8-10 p.m. www.lutsen.com

March 12, Thursday

E.A.T.S at ISD 166 Grand Marais 3:30-9

Lucy Michelle w/John Munson and

Chan Poling Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8-10 p.m.

www.lutsen.com

Colin James Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com

March 12-14

Restaurant and Pub 6:30-8:30 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com

Experiences Silver Bay Public Library at 1 p.m., Grand Marais Public Library at 6 p.m. www. arrowhead.lib.mn.us

March 13, Friday

DuLutsen North of North Music & Ski

Art & Ambiance Art Auction Fundraiser

for Thunder Bay Art Gallery 7 p.m. (EST) www. theag.ca Jim & Michelle Miller Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com

Bockfest a German Celebration of Spring Fitger’s Duluth www.fitgers.com

Wild Mountain Thyme Cascade Lodge

March 18-23

Festival Lutsen Mountains

Bundle & Go Irish Duo at Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www. cascadelodgemn.com

www.lutsen.com

Party St. Scholastica Duluth 7:30 p.m.

Grand Marais 7:30 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

Katie McMahon’s St. Patrick’s Day www.css.edu

March 20, Friday

Joe Paulik Big Bear on Poplar Lake Gunflint Trail 6-10 p.m. www.bigbearlodgemn.com

Joe Paulik and Friends Big Bear Lodge Gunflint Trail 6-9 p.m. www.joepaulik.com Dulutson Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 9 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 20-21

Inuit Premiere at Siiviis and Sivertson

Galleries (Duluth and Grand Marais) Throatsinging Performances, Guest Speakers www. sivertson.com

Tours of the Universe Fort William

Historical Park Observatory 9:30 p.m. www. fwhp.ca Live Music at Moguls Grille & Tap Room in Lutsen 4-6 p.m. www.caribouhighlands.com Live Music at Bluefin Grille in Tofte 8-10 p.m. www.bluefinbay.com Friday Night Live Music with Timmy Haus Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 9 p.m. www.lutsen.com

Saturday

Workshop: Celestial Photography Fort

William Historical Park Observatory 9:30 p.m. www.fwhp.ca Music by the Fireplace Lutsen Resort 7-10 p.m. www.lutsenresort.com Live Music at Mogul’s Grille & Tap Room in Lutsen 4-6 p.m. www.caribouhighlands.com

March 19, Thursday

Gordon Thorne Gun Flint Tavern

March 24-29

UMD Theatre Presents: Detestable Madness www.d.umn.edu/sfa

March 25, Wednesday

Barefoot Wonder-Spotlight North Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8-10 p.m. www.lutsen.com

March 26, Thursday

Carmina Burana with Thunder

Bay Symphony Orchestra Thunder Bay

Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www. tbca.com

March 21, Saturday

March 27, Friday

Orchestra Presents: Runway Duluth DECC

Grand Marais 8:30 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

Duluth Superior Symphony

7 p.m. www.dsso.com Joe Paulik Sven & Ole’s Grand Marais 7-9 p.m. www.joepaulik.com

Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com

March 6, Friday

Minnesota’s Civil War Experience Presented by Arn Kind of Historical

Eric Frost & Bill Hanson Poplar River Pub in Lutsen 6-8 p.m. www.lutsenresort.com Live Music at Bluefin Grille in Tofte 8-10 p.m. www.bluefinbay.com

8:30 p.m. www.clydeironworks.com

March 17, Tuesday

www.magnus.on.ca

Marais 5-9 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 16, Monday

Timmy Haus Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 7 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

Open Mic Gun Flint Tavern Grand

Greater Grand Marais 7 p.m. www.michaelmonroemusic.com

Magnus Theatre Presents Doubt: A Parable Thunder Bay

p.m. www.cookcountyschools.org

Flashlight Tours at Glensheen Mansion

Daylin James and the Pink Cadillac

Haywood Ski Nationals at the Lappe

www.lutsen.com

Friday

Bundle & Go Irish Duo at Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www. cascadelodgemn.com

Wu Acoustic Family-Apres Ski Acoustic Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 3:30-5:30 p.m.

1-4 p.m. Coffee, Punch, Cake, Music and More

Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop with Gordon Thorne at Moondance Coffee House in Lutsen 5:30-7 p.m. www.moondancecoffee.com Live Music at Poplar River Pub in Lutsen 6-8 p.m. www.lutsenresort.com Open Mic Night with Boyd Blomberg Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 7 p.m. www.lutsen.com

Grand Marais www.johnsonheritagepost.org

Illuminations: Igniting Imagination Exhibit at Johnson Heritage Post Gallery

North Shore Care Center Open House to Celebrate 50th Anniversary Grand Marais

starts at 9 a.m. www.boreal.org/ridgeriders Dog Days of Winter Trail Center Lodge Gunflint Trail www.dogdaysofwinter.net Seedy Sunday Marina Park Baggage Building 1-4 p.m. Thunder Bay

Tuesday

Wednesday

Orchestra in Elvis Forever Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www. tbca.com Black River Revue Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 8:30 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com Gear Daddies Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. www.lutsen.com Balsam Basher Fat Bike Race at Korkki Nordic Center 10 a.m. Duluth

Trout Derby on Gunflint Lake Registration

p.m. www.bluefinbay.com

March 13-April 29

First Nations Night Sky Storytelling Fort William Historical Park Observatory 9:30 p.m. www.fwhp.ca

7-9 p.m. Duluth

Live Music at Bluefin Grille in Tofte 8-10

Feb. 26, Thursday

Dance Party with DJ Beavstar Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 9 p.m.-1 a.m. www.lutsen.com

Gordon Thorne and Chris Gillis The Ultimate Symphonic Rock Show

with Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com Dulutson Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 9 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 22, Sunday

Timmy Haus Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 7 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com The Very Best of Celtic Thunder Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 p.m. (EST) www.tbca.com

March 23, Monday

Tony Buettner Presentation on Blue Zones at the ACA Grand Marais 6 p.m. www.

sawtoothmountainclinic.org

Charlie Parr-Monday Songwriter Series Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8-10 p.m. www.lutsen.com

Mysterious Ways Gun Flint Tavern

March 27-28

Red Bull Snow Boundaries

Spirit Mountain Resort Duluth www.redbull.com

Minnesota Ballet Presents Sleeping Beauty at the DECC Duluth 7 p.m. www.minnesotaballet.org

March 28, Saturday

Urban Infill—Art in the Core 9 Definitely

Superior Art Gallery Thunder Bay www.definitelysuperior.org

Treasures of the Earth Green Art, Goods and Craft Event Unitarian Church 835 W.

College Street Duluth 10 a.m.-3 p.m. www. wendyupnorth.com Spring Carnival at Lutsen Mountains www. lutsen.com Eric Frost Cascade Lodge Restaurant and Pub 7-9 p.m. www.cascadelodgemn.com

March 29, Sunday

James Moors Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais 7 p.m. www.gunflinttavern.com

March 30, Monday

John Mark Nelson Monday Songwriter Series Papa Charlie’s Lutsen 8-10 p.m. www.lutsen.com

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THAI LETTUCE WRAPS

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PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE ON A HOAGIE

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MACARONI AND CHEESE WITH KIELBASA

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CHEDDAR TUNA MELT ON FRENCH

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BOWL OF SOUP AND ALL YOU CAN EAT SALAD

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Organic house roasted turkey served open faced with Tavern mash and turkey gravy, side of cranberry compote Baked org. tofu, org. chicken, scallions, crimini mushrooms, walnuts, ginger, cilantro and romaine.

Sauteed ribeye strips, green pepper, onions, provolone cheese and horsey sauce.** Baked, bubbly and delicious like grandma would do.

Baked open faced with tomatoes, pickles, celery and onions in our mix .** Your choice of our soup of the day and salad with a chunk of buttered warm bread.

On french with honey dijon, tomatoes, onions and greens.** On toasted french, open faced.**

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1/2 off select bottles of wine all day Tuesdays

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Located 43 miles up the Gunflint Trail at Gunflint Lodge

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Open Daily 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Menu Highlights • Homemade walleye chowder • Big deli style sandwiches • Juicy 1/2 pound hamburgers • Walleye & Wild Rice Quesadillas • Fresh lunch salads Enjoy outdoor recreation featuring cross country skiing, snowshoeing and dogsledding.

143 S. Gunflint Lake • Grand Marais, MN 55604

218-388-2296 • 1-800-328-3325

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The North Shore Dish New Possibilities for Lighthouse at Emily’s

By Kelsey Roseth

This is bound to be a transformative year for the Lighthouse at Emily’s Restaurant.

The Knife River establishment’s future is uncertain: the building that the restaurant is leasing (located where the Scenic Drive and Knife River meet) is for sale and the restaurant is surviving on a month-tomonth lease.

However, there is hope for Emily’s.

Plans are in the works for the North Shore Scenic Railroad to purchase the property, remodel the restaurant and bring business to the small town. Despite the unknowns the restaurant is facing, its dedicated employees and customer base are optimistic and excited about the possibilities.

Let’s take you back to the beginning.

Business was booming for Lighthouse at Emily’s Restaurant late last summer when the establishment unexpectedly announced that it was closing its doors. Emily’s said it was leasing its location and the building’s owner, who lives in the Twin Cities, wanted to put the property on the market. The restaurant was closed in November and December. Moving to another property was not an option.

During that time, behind-the-scenes discussions were taking place of who would buy the historic building (built in the late 1800s) and what would become of Emily’s.

Eager customers wondered if the restaurant would find a way to re-open.

“Everybody was waiting with bated breath,” said Cynthia Lovold, the restaurant’s general manager.

Then, amidst the uncertainty, Lovold heard some good news from the building’s owner and decided to post it on Facebook.

“I made this quip on Facebook that ‘Santa came early’ and we were going to open again,” said Lovold. “It went crazy!”

The restaurant was granted a month-tomonth lease, starting in January, while the owner talked with a potential buyer—the North Shore Scenic Railroad. More than 600 people “liked” Lovold’s Facebook post and it received about 100 comments. More than 130 people shared the post. Through Facebook statistics, Lovold learned that the post reached 21,000 people.

“It was unreal,” she said of the large show of support for the small business.

The restaurant’s re-opening was excellent news to its regular customers and

Emily’s Lake Superior baked trout. | KELSEY ROSETH long-time staff, including Ann Hoffmann, a server who has been with the restaurant since the beginning (and even recruited her three children to work with her over the years).

“It’s like family here, with the girls…

They’ve always made everyone feel like family,” said Hoffman.

And those “girls” she is referring to are the Lighthouse at Emily’s owners: Lynne Compton, Claire Pierson and Brita Aug, who are sisters, and Andrea Darsow, Compton’s daughter.

About 10 years ago, “the girls” got together and decided to open a restaurant that would pay homage to their grandparents and parents, whose lives were spent fishing the North Shore. The goal was to create a cozy restaurant with a high focus on fresh fish, home-cooked comfort food and family recipes, including the marinara sauce and meatball recipes passed down for generations.

Also, the restaurant’s owners decided early on that close customer relationships were critical to their business, and to be taken very seriously.

“When you come in here it’s kind of like coming into Cheers. Everybody knows who you are,” said Lovold. “It’s like coming home.”

So, here is what’s happening with Emily’s currently: the North Shore Scenic Railroad is working to purchase the property and create a train stop in Knife River. If

Weekend music adds to a lively atmosphere. | KELSEY ROSETH the deal goes through, the Lighthouse at Emily’s will continue operating as is.

“It will be a boost to us because part of their thing is not to bring just a train ride, but an experience,” said Lovold.

The railroad wants to build a platform outside the restaurant and develop a fewhour train tour that brings riders from Duluth to Knife River and back.

Ken Buehler is general manager of the North Shore Scenic Railroad, which provides rides to about 70,000 passengers per year. He has lots of plans for the potential train stop.

“We think it’s a great opportunity,” he said. “It’s a whole new dimension to our business.”

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Local beers are on tap. | KELSEY ROSETH DISH cont. from page 27 Buehler has been researching Disney’s new model for train tourism, which brings passengers to a controlled destination and schedules time apart for both parents and children. Buehler said with a Knife River train stop, parents could eat lunch at Light-

house at Emily’s, then shop Russ Kendall’s Smoke House and the Great! Lakes Candy Kitchen. During that time, railroad supervisors could take the children to the mouth of the Knife River where the children could eat boxed lunches from Emily’s, listen to a geology talk and search for agates. Buehler said this is an opportunity for families to

further enjoy a vacation together.

“My parents would have killed for two hours away from their kids during the 24/7 family vacation,” said Buehler.

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Where You Bean All My Life?

By Amy Schmidt, RN A Danish study of twins concluded a person’s genetics aren’t the only thing determining life expectancy. In fact, genetics has relatively little to do with it, contributing only 20 percent to a predicted life span. So, what’s responsible for the other 80 percent? Of course, there are unforeseen circumstances that will factor in, but it’s interesting and encouraging to note that much of a person’s life expectancy is determined by their lifestyle and environment.

In 2004, researcher and explorer, Dan Buettner, teamed up with National Geographic and a group of longevity researchers to identify what populations of the world live longest. They termed these niches of people Blue Zones and found people in these regions were 10 times more likely to reach age 100 than people in the U.S. Upon further research, they discovered these centurions shared nine unique characteristics leading to increased longevity. Buettner and his team coined these characteristics The Power 9.

Throughout 2015, Sawtooth Mountain Clinic will be exploring these nine concepts. This month, we are focusing on Plant Slant, eating a diet based richly in beans and vegetables. Beans, like soy, lentil, fava and black, are the foundation of most centenarian diets. Meat (usually pork) is eaten only five times per month, on average, and is served in portions of only 3-4 oz., approximately the size of a deck of cards. In other words, beans were often the main dish and meat, if eaten, was more of a side.

Many of the foods in a typical American diet promote excess body fat and as well as excessive glucose (sugar) and insulin in the blood. These, in turn, promote development of several chronic diseases including Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and high cholesterol, and various forms of cancer.

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Including beans in your diet is also an efficient and cost effective choice. One cup of cooked beans is equal to one cup of vegetables and a 4-ounce protein serving, helping to meet the USDA’s My Plate recommendations. Plus, beans are cheap, especially compared to the price of meat. They’re versatile as well. The same pot of beans can be used to make all the meals of a day (think huevos rancheros with refried beans for breakfast, simple bean and avocado tacos for lunch and a hearty bowl of bean and vegetable soup for dinner). Not to mention, because beans increase satiety (the satisfied feeling of being “full”), they go a long way in helping to control appetite.

And, because it would be remiss to not mention this, research has shown that bean consumption doesn’t necessarily contribute to an uptick in flatulence. Increase, if any, is diminished within a few weeks of eating legumes regularly.

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Northern Trails A Fashion Designer with Roots in Fur By Gord Ellis

When you enter Katie Ball’s work space, located near the Canada/US border, you can feel her roots. The room is wood floored and funky, with a variety of coloured furs, vintage jackets, fashion posters and jewelery acting as decoration. A large window gives her both natural light, and a view directly into the back yard, which happens to be the woods. This workshop is where she diligently—and happily—creates mostly fur-based items for her company Silver Cedar Studio.

“I love it here, it’s a great space,” she says with a smile, dimples showing.

Ball 32, is a smashing woman, with long, dark hair and expressive eyes. She nearly glows with health. It’s easy to see why she was a successful fashion model for so long. But her background in fur goes well beyond her fashion. She is, at heart, a trapper’s daughter, and has a true connection to one of the most enduring activities in Canada.

“I always helped my Dad with skinning and stretching,” she says. “Working with beavers on the boards. Helping skin the marten. Mostly just helping him pull out the furs. He handled the knife mostly, for safety purposes of course.”

Ball is the daughter of Steve Ball, a longtime trapper in Thunder Bay. Katie is the only child of Ball and his wife Carole, so she got a lot of attention and time at the trappers shack. She says she would “feed the critters” and help with the various traps. But Ball says her love of trapping was mostly about being outdoors and going for a walk on the lake seeing what animals she could see.

“There were a lot of different experiences obviously,” she smiles. “A lot of truck rides and good stories.”

As Ball grew older, and became a teen, she grew out of the trapping life a little bit.

She started to get in to modeling and what she calls “different aspects of life.” Much of her modeling was for alternative photographers, some of it goth based.

“It made for some interesting experiences,” she says.

At some point, Ball moved to Atlanta to model and see if she could handle living there. She found that big city life was not for her. She missed being able to escape to the bush and she missed her family and

Katie Ball models a fur hat she designed and sewed. | GORD ELLIS Dad’s trap line. She doesn’t regret anything, but she knew that an urban-based life was not for her. As she approached 30, she also felt her modeling days were probably over.

“It helped me grow as a person and creatively,” she says of that time.

Ball moved back to Thunder Bay where she worked at a veterinary clinic and a pet store.

“Then I decided it was time to get back to my roots,” she says.

Just over two years ago, Ball went to the annual Northwest Fur Trappers Association’s convention in Thunder Bay. She visited with her Dad and some other trappers

and was checking out the various booths.

Ball says she went to say “hi” to Becky Monk, an old friend who is also a trapper.

She was looking at the different coloured furs, and carved furs that Becky had on hand, and all the different types and techniques they were using with fur.

“As I was talking to her she was asking me about my modeling and how things had been going,” says Ball. “Really just casual conversation, and I mentioned I’d wanted to create my own pieces. I wanted to start creating my own pieces to possibly sell and market. And Becky just asked me this simple question: ‘Have you ever considered fur?’ And I haven’t looked back.”

Ball then took part in a fur sewing pro-

gram the trappers’ association put together and made her first fur hat. She says it was an envelope hat made of possum fur. Ball says possum is known to be difficult to work with, and is not particularly attractive, as it’s stringy and not very full. The hat turned out pretty well, despite being made of possum.

“Becky said if I could sew with that, I could sew anything,” Ball says with a chuckle. “And it was a great learning experience. I still have it.”

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NORTHERN TRAILS cont. from page 31 with the focus on making more typical hats, collar and cuffs. She says that’s the majority of what fur accessories are these days , and what people expect see. But her background in fashion took hold. She began to experiment, and quickly found a groove.

“I’ve kind of ventured off from (the traditional items) now,” she says. “I’m still making those pieces and they are still my bread and butter. But at the same time, I want to start using fur in different ways that people wouldn’t consider as normal uses—just to use fur throughout the year rather than when you need it because it’s cold out.”

While Ball is trying to think outside the box with her designing, she is firmly a traditionalist when it comes to the tools of thread. Her main tool is an ancient looking thing called The Bonis Never Stop machine. Ball has three of them in her workshop, and although they look museum ready, she says they are real workhorses.

“Each of them are over 100 years old and they are all from actual furriers, “ she says. “Basically what it does is instead of sewing vertically, you are sewing horizontally.

With fur sewing there really is no seam allowance as there is in typical sewing.”

Katie Ball with a fur hat she designed and at work at one of her 100-year-old Bonis fur sewing machines. | GORD ELLIS

Ball is a bit secretive about her designs, but shows the columnist a few of her pieces. They are brilliant and absolutely unique. She has been working hard to prepare for her first fashion show, planned for the trapper’s convention in Thunder Bay, in late February. The plan is to have 32 pieces ready. It’s a tall order for one woman, but she feels ready.

“It’s going to be the unveiling of my pieces that are a little more avante garde and will be different ways of looking at fur,” she says.

You can check out Katie Ball and her work on Facebook at Silver Cedar Studio or www.silvercedarstudio.com.

WHY GO: In recent years, Black Bay has become one of the hottest yellow perch spots for ice fishing in Ontario.

There’s also good lake trout and salmon fishing for boaters in the summer.

ACCESS: Hurkett is about an hour’s drive north and east of Thunder Bay on the Trans-Canada Highway.

VITALS: Black Bay is the expansive bay located to the east of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. At about 60,000 hectares, the bay has a surface area of about 150,000 acres. According to Fritz Fischer, fisheries assessment supervisor with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the average depth is between 15 and 20 feet north of Bent Island. South of Bent Island, where fewer dare to venture, there’s depths dropping off into the 100-foot range.

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leveled off to a place where many anglers expect to fill their 25-perch limit.

Fischer said most of the better perch action is on the shallower side of Bent Island—to the north.

“There are some jumbos out there, too,” Fischer said. “Some people do limit out.”

Light panfish gear will get the job done, along with brightly-colored or gold jigs, tipped with minnows.

BE SAFE: The reason few travel south of Bent Island is because it’s deeper and the ice conditions can be much more variable. “The deeper water is closer to the lake, so it’s often very sketchy out there,” Fischer said. “People don’t want to die.”

GAME SPECIES PRESENT: Yellow perch, walleye, northern pike, lake trout, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead trout.

Regardless of where you choose to fish on the bay, be careful. “Take all of your normal precautions,” he said.

“Have everything you need to be safe on the ice.”

YELLOW PERCH: After a commercial fishery for perch and walleye on the bay was closed down in 2003, the perch fishery rebounded fairly dramatically, Fischer said. “There was an initial increase until about 2008, a really dramatic increase,” Fischer said. “It’s kind of leveled off from there.” But it’s

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BLACK BAY, LAKE SUPERIOR WALLEYE: The walleye fishery has not recovered, and is closed north of Bent Island. “People do fish for them south of Bent Island, and some big fish are caught down there,” Fischer said, who noted the regulations (namely, the possession limits) differ on that portion of Black Bay than from the rest of the province. While the provincial possession limit is six walleye and/or sauger per day (combined), the possession limit is one fish for those with a conservation license tag and two fish for those with a sport fishing license tag.

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COME BACK IN THE SUMMER: For whatever reason, few spend any time fishing for yellow perch during the warm water months, Fischer said.

Instead, the angling attention shifts to lake trout and salmon for boaters, once the ice disappears from the bay, which typically occurs in late May. “If you go out for salmon, you will more likely catch more lake trout than salmon,” Fischer said. Most of the salmon that are around are Chinook, but there are occasional catches of coho salmon.

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Stats: 4th place (13 minutes behind 3rd place,

14 minutes in front of 5th place).

38 hours and 47 minutes total run time; 24 hours and 2 minutes total rest time.

Average Speed 8.2 mph.

Cumulative Race Miles 319.

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When I narrowed down my team to the final 12 dogs, a special two-year old named Ringo didn’t make the final cut.

But Matt and I worried that the vet check prior to the race might reveal some injury or illness that we didn’t catch. So we brought Ringo as the alternate: lucky dog number 13.

And as luck would have it, another boy named Sultan had a sore/stiff shoulder that we had not noticed and a vet did. Sultan was out and Ringo was in.

Ringo has given me some problems in past races. I didn’t think he’d make it very far in the Beargrease, but he’s still one of our kennel favorites, and I was happy to have him along for as long as he would run.

Hitting the trail was a relief. There is so much anticipation leading up to the race.

Once we were finally on the trail I could just let go of all my worries and anticipated problems. Leg one from Two Harbors to Finland was easy—and fast. Too fast. The trail had just been pummeled by over 40 teams in front of me and gravel and rocks stuck up through the snow. I stood on the drag pad the entire run and still clocked in at 10.7 mph. I was aiming for under 10. On some of the steeper downhills, I couldn’t get the brake to dig in deep enough and we screamed downhill until the gradient eased and we slowed a bit.

At the Finland checkpoint, I noticed several teams had stopped briefly and gone on. My plan was to rest two hours and then continue, so we did.

I left with the team headed for Sawbill about 9:30 p.m. Again, the trail and the team were fast, and I continued braking the entire 30 miles to Sawbill. My speed

The mushers behind Mush Lake Racing. | SUBMITTED came down to under 10 mph and we pulled into the checkpoint sometime after midnight. A team of volunteers helped me to my spot in the woods. This was an unassisted checkpoint and I set about taking off booties, laying down straw and lighting up the cooker to heat water and melt snow. Once everyone was fed, I sat with my back against a tree, turned off my headlamp and waited. An hour later it was time to get everyone ready to go again. Unfortunately one of my girls had a swollen wrist and I had to leave her in the vet’s care at the checkpoint.

It was almost 4 a.m. and a bunch of us decided to leave the checkpoint at the same time, but each team had to wait for the

Lucky bib 16. | ERIN ALTEMUS volunteers to help us out of the woods and back to the trail. Somehow I ended up on the waiting list. My team was going crazy by this time. I tried to keep Cha-cha from chewing on the gangline, but by the time volunteers came for us, she had chewed the line down to the bare cable. I was not about to switch out line at that point, so we left.

Snow fell heavily by the time I was on the trail. It seemed to be piercing me in the eyes. The light of my headlamp reflected off of each flake and soon my eyes were

exhausted trying to decipher whether there was an uphill or downhill ahead. By 7 a.m. I was able to turn off my lamp and the world turned to a calm grey.

I was all alone out there. I passed one team on this leg and saw no one else. Just me and the dogs. We continued on down the Lima Grade toward Trail Center and I began to feel very tired. I slipped my hand through a loop of rope on the sled and dozed off. Every time we hit a bump MUSH LAKE cont. on page 34

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MUSH LAKE cont. from page 33 (which was probably every few seconds), I’d jerk upright, and then doze off again. This continued for some time— me bobbling around on the runners, the dogs pushing on.

By the time we reached Trail Center I actually felt somewhat refreshed.

I took the trail one leg at a time. My personal motto became: “Don’t count your finish line until you’ve crossed it.” Meaning, never get overconfident. When the race is going well, great, but that doesn’t mean you’ll finish—that’s what I kept telling myself.

Once at Trail Center, I thought about the leg ahead, the “loop to nowhere” as mushers call it. When I left Trail Center, I had a moment of uncertainty, worried my dogs wouldn’t take the right trail like in the Mail Run. Another musher had left just ahead of me and as I approached his team, which had stalled on the trail, I thought mine would simply go around the side and pass. I think my leader Judy saw the trail going underneath his dogs and simply wanted to follow the trail, so she did, right through the middle of his team. Luckily, he helped me untangle the two teams and go on by and down the lake.

The trail heads from Trail Center toward Gunflint Lake, careening down huge hills and around 180-degree turns.

When we reached Loon Lake, by then in the dark on Monday early evening, we saw a head lamp in the distance and my dogs picked up speed until we finally passed that team on the other side of the lake. But by the time we neared Devil’s Track, one of my dogs, Nancy, wasn’t pulling and I finally put her in the sled bag to ride out the final 10 miles of that leg.

At Devil’s Track, I was over half-way done on the trail. I left Nancy behind. She had gotten a sore elbow and wrists after the technical stretches of trail on the loop to nowhere. With 10 dogs I headed back to Sawbill.

As the sun rose Tuesday morning, the team slowed down. With a smaller and more tired team, the hills felt bigger. I underestimated our run time for the leg by at least an hour. At Sawbill, Matt asked me if Jenny Greger (another rookie in the race with a strong team) and I had been playing leap frog. “I never saw her,” I told him. Turns out she had been gaining on me and came in two minutes behind me. She kept going right out of Sawbill and on to Finland. I stopped and rested my team for 3.5 hours.

I left Sawbill with nine dogs, and here is where my rookie boy, Ringo comes back into the spotlight. I was surprised that he was still part of the team, and as we left the checkpoint and started up the Heartbreak Hill grade, Ringo suddenly started yipping. It was more of a howl and his whole body convulsed as he single-doggedly started pulling everyone upward. That whole run to Finland, every time we approached an intersection or needed a burst of energy up hill, he rallied the team. There was a cohesiveness about the team in that leg; everyone just understood what they were supposed to do—they gelled.

It was the best run of the race.

We pulled into Finland, took the team off to the side,

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watered and snacked them. I ran into the bathroom, grabbed dry socks and readied the team to leave. I left Gabby behind there. I could just tell that she had done enough.

The hills leaving Finland must be some of the steepest and longest on the trail. A few miles out of the checkpoint, I stopped to check on a dog, and Colleen Wallin passed me. This is the point in the race where everyone’s race strategies converge. I knew Colleen and I had been running at a similar pace, and I could see that now. Frank Moe had left Finland not long before me, and about halfway to Two Harbors, Colleen and I (who had been leap frogging and running together a bit) passed him.

At Two Harbors I took a two-hour nap. I had a leave time of 1:19 a.m. and Colleen was only two minutes ahead of me. Frank was not far behind and Jenny Greger was just behind him. The first- and second-place runners, Nathan Schroeder and Ryan Anderson, were two hours ahead of all of us, so this final run would determine 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place for the four of us.

But just when its going well, things fall apart—it had been this way for almost 300 miles. I was down to four males and two females and I couldn’t run any two males side-by-side. Well, I thought I could, which is why two of them got into a tussle in the checkpoint. Then Matt tried to lead my team to the left on the trail (back to Finland) and we’re all screaming at him to go right. By the time I left the checkpoint, I had lost an additional two minutes.

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This could be the point in the story where I tell you that Ringo stepped it up and led us to the finish, but he did not.

He looked back at me like “I have absolutely no desire to be in lead.” What I needed was an extra piece of gangline, but Matt had scavenged through my sled, eliminating any extra weight so I could get to the finish faster. I started stringing extra necklines together until I had a spot for a single dog just behind the leader and then I took the cord off my mittens and used it to tie Judy back in lead next to Beezus. Finally, we were moving down the trail.

At that point, I didn’t expect to catch Colleen. I just wanted to stay in fourth place. “Don’t count your finish line...” I kept telling myself.

The hills were relentless the entire way. Somewhere we took a wrong turn and ended up on a plowed road, but we managed to find our way back to the trail. At one point, I thought I was close to the finish and got really emotional, just so happy to be there with the team and impressed with how amazing these six dogs were that I had with me. But then the hills kept coming. Finally, we pulled into Billy’s Bar on the outskirts of Duluth just after 6 a.m. And wouldn’t you know that our oldest dog, Judy Blume, who has been living on our couch for the past eight months, only getting off of it to train for the races, and our youngest dog, Ringo, who we thought would only last two or three legs, were among the six finishers.

Will I do it again? Probably. Though a 300-mile race without so many hills looks awfully tempting. But hills, like pain, are easy to forget.

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Strange Tales The Congdons of Glensheen Historic Estate By Elle AndraWarner

What does a history-making wooden yacht, a Lake Superior shipwreck, and an 80,000-square-foot timber-and-stone castle in the state of Washington have to do with Duluth’s Glensheen Historic Estate and its original owners, Chester and Clara Congdon? Well, it seems, lots.

Chester Adgate Congdon, son of a Methodist pastor, was a poor Minnesota lawyer who had only $9.46 cash in his pocket when he was courting schoolteacher Clara Hesperia Bannister. However, his fortunes began to change after becoming the assistant U.S. Attorney for the district of Minnesota. In 1881, he and Clara married, moved to St. Paul and in 1892, to Duluth where Congdon became a wealthy man, a mining magnate owning dozens of companies. By 1905, when he commissioned a St. Paul architect to design a family home for his wife and children, Congdon was the second richest man in Minnesota, after the Ontario-born railway baron in St. Paul, James J. Hill.

The 39-room mansion on 22 acres along Lake Superior became known as Glensheen. A Jacobean-style manor home, it was surrounded by extensive formal gardens, a gardener’s cottage, carriage house and stream. Construction costs were $854,000 (more than $21 million today).

The family moved into Glensheen in November 1908.

The early 1900s was an era where the American wealthy liked to own yachts to entertain friends by cruising the Great Lakes, and Chester Congdon was no exception. In 1911, he had his yacht Hesperia built at the Bath Marine Construction Company in Bath, Maine. It was a 53 by 12 wood design with a raised deck and powered by a four-stroke, six-cycle internal combustion gas engine. The yacht was designed by New York naval architect Morris Whitaker, a prominent boat builder who built many cruisers for use on the Great Lakes and was the first person to put a diesel engine in a “motor launch.”

To accommodate Hesperia (named after his wife Clara’s middle name), Congdon built a fancy stone boathouse and L-shaped pier at Glensheen that was the largest private pier on Lake Superior. Over time, the waves have pushed rocks to make the boathouse landlocked and also took away the L shape of the pier.

To get the Hesperia from Maine to Duluth, Clara Congdon’s nephew Alfred

The Heseria was built in Maine in 1911.

Bannister and two friends went to New York in 1911 to bring the yacht through the Great Lakes, starting from the Hudson River. Hesperia made history as the first privately-owned motorized vehicle to pass through the Soo locks and her voyage was featured in the Motor Boat magazine.

Five years after it was built, the Hesperia was destroyed by fire on June 25, 1916 during a refueling accident (no one was hurt), leaving only the hull, which was later repaired and sold for $300.

In 1914, construction began on another home for Congdon, this time a mammoth 30,000-square-foot summer residence on 900-acres in Yakima, Wash. Known as Congdon Castle, it has been described as “a symphony in rough-hewn timbers and stone” with more than 80 rooms, including 18 bedrooms. Completed in 1916 and now called Westhome, it remains in the Congdon family.

And what about the shipwreck connection? In 1912, the 532-foot steel hulk freighter Salt Lake City (built in 1907 by the Chicago Ship Building Co.) was renamed by its new owners, the Chester A. Congdon after Duluth’s Chester Congdon. Seven years later on Nov. 6, 1918, the Congdon with cargo of 380,000 bushels of

wheat, departed Fort William (now Thunder Bay), and ran aground in heavy fog at the northeast end of Isle Royale on Canoe Rocks, a rock outcropping now called Congdon Shoal. The crew was all rescued, while only 20 percent of her cargo was salvaged. Another storm two days later broke the freighter in two and today, the wreckage sits in 50-200 feet of water with the bow section on the south side of reef and stern on the north side. At the time, the Congdon was Lake Superior’s first shipwreck to be valued at $1.5 million with cargo. In 1984, the shipwreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Chester Congdon, born June 12, 1853 in Rochester, N.Y., died unexpectedly on Nov. 21, 1916. Clara, born on April 29, 1854 in San Francisco, died on July 7, 1950 at age 96.

The last surviving of the Congdon children, Elisabeth (born 1894) continued to live at Glensheen until she and her nurse Velma Peitila were brutally murdered on June 27, 1977. Though never married, Elisabeth had adopted two daughters, Marjorie and Jennifer. Elisabeth’s son-in-law Roger Caldwell was convicted of the two murders; her daughter Marjorie Caldwell was acquitted but later ended up in jail for other crimes.

Glensheen, which had been willed to University of Minnesota, opened to the public as a museum on July 28, 1979, and continues to be one of Duluth’s top attractions.

“The entire Congdon family, including my grandmother, Elisabeth Mannering Congdon, enjoyed the Hesperia and they often entertained friends on the raised deck as they sailed on Lake Superior.”—Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, great-granddaughter of Chester and Clara Congdon and author of the true story of Elisabeth Mannering Congdon, Nightingale: A Memoir of Murder, Madness and the Messenger of Spring (2014).

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After a long winter, March makes amends with the spring equinox and planet shows in both morning and evening skies.

the scorpion’s red heart. Viewing Saturn is best after the 17th or 18th, when no moon interferes.

The month opens with Venus floating above Mars in the west, over the sunset horizon. All month long, the planets pull farther apart. On the 21st, look an hour after sundown to see Mars and a hair-thin crescent moon form a reclining semicolon. The next night, the waxing crescent repeats the performance with Venus.

March’s full Worm Moon, named for the reappearance of earthworms in the softening earth, shines the night of the 5th. This moon has also been called the Sap Moon, for the running of the maple sap beloved of pancake eaters everywhere. It’s the smallest full moon of 2015, thanks to falling on the same day that it reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its monthly orbit.

In the east and south, Jupiter outshines even Sirius, the brightest of stars. Following Jupiter across the sky are the stars of Leo, led by the backwards question mark called the Sickle, which outlines the lion’s head and is anchored by bright Regulus. Bringing up the rear is a triangle of stars marking the hindquarters and tail.

The sun crosses the equator at 5:45 p.m. CDT on the 20th. This is the moment of the vernal equinox, when Earth is lighted from pole to pole and the northern spring begins. In the days around the spring equinox, the sun and its warmth also move most rapidly north, stirring up the famous March winds.

If you’re an early riser, don’t miss the chance to spot Saturn in the claws of Scorpius an hour or two before dawn.

On the 12th, a waning moon dangles next to the ringed planet as it sits atop a line of starry claws facing Antares,

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Nomadic Dwelling: Making a Yurt a Home

By Linden Figgie Living in a yurt requires a generous amount of creativity, flexibility, and certainly an adventurous spirit. Making it home requires even more.

Since summer 2011, Ian and Rachel Andrus have lived year-round in a yurt they built themselves, and the journey has been nothing short of rewarding.

A yurt is a dome-shaped, one-room shelter, typically made with a polyester or vinyl cover, a wood stove for heating, and a single entrance. The nomadic structure of a yurt, it’s functional mobility, and low cost appealed to Ian and Rachel.

Initially, the couple’s journey into yurt dwelling began with off-the-grid living.

“We were interested in an off-the-grid cabin, to experience that lifestyle of hauling water and chopping wood,” Ian said, “and it was really hard to find a place that was reasonably priced.”

Ian and Rachel eventually became caretakers for a friend’s land and lived in a small cabin on their property. Their utility and living expenses were low and that allowed them to save money for future land of their own.

During the same time, Ian interned at the North House Folk School where he was exposed to numerous traditional northern crafts. This experience, along with living in a remote setting, grew his and Rachel’s interest in yurt living.

Ian and Rachel didn’t have a grand plan for their transition into yurt life. Their reasons were impromptu.

“We just kind of went for it,” Ian said. “You can’t really think too much about it.”

Though Rachel grew up on a park ranger residence and was accustomed to backcountry camping and travel, the yurt experience was brand new.

“I had no expectations,” Rachel said. “I was ready for an adventure.”

Ian began working as the yurt-building instructor for the North House following his internship and was able to use the expertise of fellow instructors and the shop space for sewing the canvas and general construction.

Building the yurt was intermittent over a few months.

Ian harvested the ceiling poles from his parents’ property and constructed the lattice slats out of black ash. He used a one-inch layer of breathable polyester batting material for the outer covering, which allows for moisture control.

Within its polyester layer, the yurt is insulated with four layers of wool-blend blankets, which were originally used by a farmer to cover and protect pumpkins from frost.

Ian described the yurt structure in anatomical sections— the poles, the skeleton; the outer canvas, the skin; and the insulation—the muscle, the key to it all.

“The muscle of the insulation is the weight that holds everything together,” Ian said. “Nothing flaps, it’s just solid.”

Rachel agrees. “We’ve been through some crazy storms,” she said. “In the summer, wind howling, I was always afraid the roof was going to collapse or the walls were going to cave … but it doesn’t. It’s just really solid. I totally believe in the yurt structure.”

Ian and Rachel put thoughtful consideration into their yurt design and used as many all-natural materials as possible.

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Ian and Rachel Andrus stand with their baby, Norah, in front of their yurt. | SUBMITTED “In the beginning we really wanted to go with a natural fabric,” Ian said, “but the longevity of cotton is not very long, so we opted for polyester.”

Ian and Rachel were strategic in their heating design, too. Instead of positioning the wood stove on the side of the yurt, as most commercial yurts have it, they put the stove in the center with the pipe going up through the dome.

“Having the stove in the center is key,” Ian said.

“If you have your stove over on the side of the wall,” Rachel added, “all your heat is only in that one tiny space.”

Overtime, Ian and Rachel have made improvements. A solar panel fuels a 7-volt battery that they use to charge their phones and laptop and to run a string of small LED lights.

“We started with an oil lamp and candles,” Rachel said.

“We moved through that slowly.”

With the birth of their first child, Norah, just under a year ago, Ian and Rachel have had to be even more creative with use of their space. “Norah just requires more stuff,” Rachel said, “And we keep having to move things up higher and higher. We’re just running out of space.”

Tucked snuggly away in the woods, the handmade yurt has flourished into a homestead. A trail winds from the driveway through the woods to their front door. Additional paths lead to their wood shed, greenhouse, and a second yurt.

“It’s freeing in a lot of ways,” Rachel said. “It was easy; it was cheap; it was fun to build. It was fun to have done it all ourselves.”

Apart from the function and creative stimulation, Ian and Rachel have found a deeper connection with nature and the world around them.

Ian and Rachel have learned a lot about efficiency and creativity.

“We can hear a raven’s wings beating if it flies overhead,” Rachel said, “The wind going through the trees, the wolves howling, owls hooting—it’s great to be able to hear.”

“It’s so fun to think of all the ways to save space,” Rachel said. “It’s key to have the bed elevated pretty high.

It keeps us sleeping warm and gives us a ton of storage.”

Ian and Rachel’s journey from camping as kids to living in cabins and now a yurt has made them think about what is important in the places they exist.

One favorite feature is the water pump, which was designed for sailboats.

“There’s a part of me that likes it when people think we live in an interesting way. It makes me feel like I’m on the right track,” Ian said. “I don’t want to just do what everybody else is doing. I want it to be unique and interesting and creative and challenging and all that. That’s what I want my life to be, an interesting story.”

“When you’re hauling water,” Ian said, “you want to be as efficient as you can with it.”

Both Ian and Rachel find the benefits of the yurt to far outweigh the challenges.

“A lot of people think it’s a hardship,” Ian said, “but it allows you to be creative with how you use these little things and how you can make things more efficient over time.”

Ian and Rachel have relocated the yurt a number of times, from the North House courtyard to friends’ property, to one piece of land to another. Its nomadic function and sound structure have allowed them to explore and discover what values they hope to one day permanently deep-root into a home.

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Large decks with amazing views of the lake.

Lutsen 48 County Road 34 MLS #6003287 $999,000

It’s unusual or likely simply unavailable to find nearly 850’ of Lake Superior shoreline spread over 13 acres in the heart of Lutsen. This property is accompanied by a three bedroom lake home that was built for the ages. The lake home is timeless with respect to design and architecture. Three bedrooms, one bath with a Great Room and wood fire place. Recent updates to kitchen and bathroom. Sincerely, likely some of the best views on the entire north shore with moderate stair access to ledge rock shoreline. Property is currently examining land considerations for Administration Sub-Division. Application is in process showing the possibility for one or two additional shoreline lots with back lots for protection. Proposed land considerations attached.

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Lutsen 261 Caps Trail Tait Lake MLS#6001233 $334,500

Tait Lake in Lutsen.

Wonderfully appointed and extremely well maintained 2 bedroom, loft and 2 bath south facing home on a 2.9 acre parcel and 190’ of shoreline with dock. Abundance of natural light throughout the home. New addition in 2006 includes second bedroom, bathroom hallway and laundry.

Office added in 2011 (could be converted to third bedroom).

Excellent value. Call Katterine today for your private showing.

GreaT VacanT Land VaLUeS

Jonvick Creek Beautiful home sites in mature Maple, Spruce and Birch forest. $29,500-54,900 xxx Sawbill Trail 120 Acres located up the Sawbill Trail. Large Maples MLS# 27551 $199,900 xxx Mountain Ash Ln Cedar covered hillside overlooking Lake Superior in Lutsen.

MLS#60000147 $649,000 xxx Mile O’Pine 1.6 acres, Gunflint Trail.

MLS#6002389 $179,900 xxx Leveaux Ridge

3.45 acres Birch Forest, pines, Lake Superior View MLS#6002548 OUTSTANDING VALUE! $29,500

Johannes Toftey Homestead Sites

D4 Sea Villa MLS#6002267 $159,000 D3 Sea Villa MLS#6002884 $164,000

This home blends pure quality restating an original Lake Superior homestead with a Clarence Kemp addition that seamlessly ties two areas under one roof with masterful eloquence. Kitchen with custom made cabinetry, high-end appliances, gas stove, granite countertops and a custom designed brick-oven. An open living space with the Great Room with vaulted ceilings with Lake Superior view. Kitchen, great room and dining room are all connected.

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Two+ bedroom manufactured home located downtown Lutsen. New septic and deck summer 2011. Newer roof, furnace and dishwasher. Great location with convenient horseshoe driveway and level lot. Solid foundation. Walking distance to “downtown Lutsen” and close proximity to area employers and related businesses.

Very nice floor plan with well appointed furnishings included.

Lutsen 4010 Cascade Beach Rd MLS#6002547 $429,000

Well-built and well maintained 2 bedroom 2 bath Lake Superior Home near Black Point on Cascade Beach Road in Lutsen. Wood burning fireplace with living, dining and kitchen combined with orientation toward lake and very nice views. Separate yearround sun room and third room study. Main level laundry with separate study/craft room or 3rd bedroom option.

Grand Marais

1817 W Hwy 61

MLS#6002458 $139,900

Hwy 61 West from Grand Marais, located close to town on a private wooded lot. This home has 4 bedrooms and plenty of options for a new owner to add sweat equity. Property may be divisible. Mix of residential and commercial zoning.

MLS#6002804 $129,000

MLS#6000932 $599,000

342 Rd Schroeder 160 acres covered in Maples, Birch, and other mixed forest. Can be sold as parcels.

MLS#6000143 $199,000

MLS#6002703 $699,000

Lutsen 5295 W Hwy 61

Gunflint Lake home on nearly 12 acres of forest land with 619’ of private shoreline on Gunflint Lake. Two stall detached garage, guest cabin, boathouse and woodshed.

Priced below taxable market value! Call Bruce today for showing.

Tait Pines Nestled hillside adjacent to Tait Lake in Lutsen, just 13 miles up the Caribou Trail. $37,950-$57,750 Caribou Hillside Outstanding homesites tucked along the hillside of Caribou Lake. $52,250-$126,500

Hovland 90 Stonegate Rd

The Lutsen Sea Villas have withstood the test of time. Nowhere else is there a shoreline like this on the entire coast of Lake Superior. The owner’s and management company have upheld excellent standards and quality while maintaining the unique integrity of this original seaside coastal development, and they are well run by Lutsen Resort.

Grand Marais 517 S Gunflint Lake

sen and Tofte. Convenient Location with outstanding values. $24,750-33,000

Beautiful hillside lots in Tofte with Lake Superior and Carlton Peak views. $35,750-55,000

Lutsen Sea Villas

H5 Sea Villa MLS#6000600 $185,000 G2 Sea Villa MLS#6002909 $159,000 G5 Sea Villa MLS#6002092 $172,000

Tofte Airport Home Sites Located between Lut-

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Lutsen, MN 44 Lodge Lane MLS#6003364 $269,500

This 3 bedroom 2 bath Lutsen Log Lodge has been carefully maintained. Main level has 2 bedrooms and a private bathroom. Second level has a private master bedroom and master bathroom with jetted tub. Open kitchen area to main great room with fireplace. Its location on the Ski Hill Road offers the convenience to year round activities in the Lutsen area. Find this opportunity as year round residence, a private vacation home and/or vacation rentals.

Lutsen, MN 5170 W Hwy 61 MLS#6003083 $349,000

Authentic and classic late 1940’s - 1950’s log home located in Lutsen near Caribou Trail.

Deep, private and recessed 2 acre lot. Home has been meticulously maintained and well cared for spanning four decades and two generations within the same family. Drilled well providing seasonal water use. Septic functional but noncompliant. Cool cabin, cool piece of real estate, mutli-options present themselves for future use consideration. An all around cool place.

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TaIT Lake Home In LuTsen! Enjoy Fall leaf color from the breezy deck overlooking the 260 ft of shoreline! Tons of light flows through the Living Room focusing on Wilderness lake views. Well maintained year round home is totally dialed in and the garage boasts a roomy workshop with spacious guest suite!

mLs#6002868 ReduCed! $329,000

easY LIvIng on Lake suPeRIoR! Super location between

Grand Marias and Lutsen with Incredible views of the Big Lake! Meticulously Maintained, move in ready, Great Opportunity to make this your Dream Lake Superior home!

mLs#6001226 $569,500

dRamaTIC sHoReLIne and InCRedIBLe vIeWs! Must see Lake Superior

home, main level master bedroom, very cool cobblestone fireplace, open kitchen to family floor plan! Great Tofte location, walk to Coho Café!

mLs#6001714 $650,000

neW! eLeganCe & ComFoRT on Lake Superior’s

Cascade Beach Rd! Lovingly remodeled, the owners focused on Luxury and Style in the Northwoods: a massive stone fireplace for the ages; a master bath filled with natural stone, steam shower and soaker tub; and a living room noble as the Big Lake! Separate Glass Studio with Billiards, Foosball & darts! Rustic guest cabin captures the Old Time North Shore. $899,000 mLs#TBa

nICe Lake vIeW Home oveRLookIng nInemILe Lake!

oPPoRTunITY oF a LIFeTIme!

Enjoy expansive views and a lot of elbow room with over 300 ft of Lake Superior Shoreline! Well constructed home is ready to be updated! Gorgeous Stone fireplace, two car detached, Lovely Lutsen setting! mLs#600899 $679,900

neW! Lake suPeRIoR CoTTage wrapped in the history

of the North Shore! Accessible and SPECTACULAR 177 ft of Lake Superior in Wilderness Setting! Staggering views of Lake Superior from the kitchen and dining area! you’ll love having your morning coffee on the new deck surrounded by mature spruce and pine! 3+ Bdrms, 3 garages! Sweet location just west of Tofte, walk to Blue Fin, Bike to Lutsen!

BeauTY and THe BIg Lake!

Well maintained Family Compound with yr round newer home on 8+ ac and 340+ ft accessible shoreline!

But’s it really about “The Shining Rocks” The “Rock 1” log cabin was built early 30’s, and it’s been lovingly maintained by only a handful of families since. Cabins Rock 1, 2 & 3 create this incredible family compound!

mLs#6002529 $799,000

$145,000

Quality crafted townhome features an owner’s suite so luxurious your family and guests may wonder if you’ll ever reappear!

476’ of shared shore w/ a point that juts dramatically into the lake forming Good Harbor & Cutface Creek beach. Water, sewer, ext. maint. covered by Assoc., Just Show up, Relax, and Explore! mLs#6002475

$475,000 mLs#6003473

maRveLous Lk suPeRIoR LIvIng!

Tons of Space, great views and Affordable Low Maintenance Living! mLs#6002645

on deeRYaRd Lake, with

garage/workshop/cabin with 100 ft of Nice Shoreline and nearly 3 acres of south sloping land. Electric, well, septic tank, AND dock! Can’t beat this value for Lutsen Lakeshore Living!

ReduCed! $337,500

anCIenT PInes on TaIT Lake! Lovely log

sided Cabin with Vaulted Ceilings, Gorgeous Fireplace, and Awesome Views! So much to Offer, yr Rnd Living on Tait Lake in Lutsen! mLs#6003095

$369,000

mLs#6001066 $139,000

QuIeT oasIs on THe BIg Lake!

Relax and just Enjoy Life, A masterpiece of main level living for the couple who enjoys entertaining but also enjoys having their own space at the end of the night, why, that’s why you have two guest quarters! mLs#6003227

ReduCed! $799,999

INCOME GENERATING VACATION HOMES FeaTuRed LIsTIng!

526 Moose Mountain, Mint Condition with Great Views, a Must See at bargain

WInTeR WondeRLands FoR saLe aT LuTsen mounTaIns! Ski In Ski Out, Super

Nice Condos and townhomes at Caribou Highlands, a wide variety available from the small getaway studios to the Top Notch 4 Bedrm Townhomes. Call TimberWolff today, we are your Condo Experts!

FRom $115,000 mLs#6002881 neW! #620 moose mTn 4-5 bedrm mint townhome!

mLs#6002082 $330,000 neW! 605 moose mTn 4 bedrm mint townhome!

mLs#6002557 $297,000

ReduCed! $189,500 mLs#6002963

LoveLY BLueFIn BaY Lake Superior home! Modern and functional space from the kitchen overlooking the lake and Great Room, flowing through a newly remodeled upper level, you’ll fall in love with this Townhome!

Nice rental revenues makes this vacation home a keeper!

mLs#6002385 $554,900 neW! #70 BeHInd CoHo! Must See!! mLs#6003372 $560,000,

ToWnHome aT WIndsong on Lake suPeRIoR! Up and Coming FamILY WInTeR Fun aT THe LuTsen sea vILLas! If you haven’t seen the Villas in a while, you better look again! Most have been updated, especially K3 and C5! Let us show you the NEW LOOK in the Sea Villas and you will LOVE them!

aT WaTeRs edge k3 vILLa, suPeR BaRgaIn aT $177,500 ReduCed

Beaver Bay boasts an easier drive to the cities and really good Value! Amazing layout to soak in the Views, this home won’t disappoint!

mLs#6002658 $339,000

neW! CLassY, CoRneR ToWnHome at Tofte’s upscale Surfside Resort. #7 is a stone’s throw from accessible shoreline you’ll LOVE, this townhome, and it’s affordable with the Quarter Share option! No other end unit compares on price, views or locale to the Big Lake.

The interior is right out of the pages of Architectural Digest, total Luxury! $199,000 mLs#6003491

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naTuRaL BeauTY! Main level year round living just east of Grand Marais, with insulated garage! mLs#6002327 ReduCed agaIn! $184,500

FunCTIonaL Home on 6 aC in between Lutsen

and Tofte, just a minute to the Ski Hill or Sugarbush XCountry trails!

Garage, tons of space! $199,000

mLs#6002213

Carlton Peak!

Good bang for your buck for square footage, this multi-level home is very Cool. Updated gourmet kitchen, new flooring and carpet and two garages!

CRazY BIg Lake BIg mounTaIn vIeWs! Epic Home

with Sprawling views, too Incredible to Imagine, you MUST SEE! Main Level Living, huge deck, loft bedrooms and lower level family/guest space.

Over 6 acres! mLs#6002052 $275,000

mLs#6001636 $240,000

FIne LIvIng In FInLand!

Cherry cabinets in Kitchen, Huge deck overlooking Pines! Garage and sheds. Great Price! $175,000 mLs#6002456

suPeR oPPoRTunITY,

Rent the Lower Level and love living on the main level with wrap around deck and LOVELy Lake Superior views!

Really worth a look, great living spaces!

CLean LInes and Easy Living in Tofte! Sweet 2 plus bedroom, detached garage and nice Lake Superior views, you will enjoy coming home after a day of outdoor adventure!

A Must See to appreciate how nice this home is! mLs#6001945 $169,000

sTaggeRIng Lake suPeRIoR vIeWs, sTunnIng Home! Bowl Over your

Huge FamILY Home WITH Lake vIeWs oR aPaRTmenT ComPLeX? You deCIde!

CaBIn LIvIng WITH eLBoW Room! Great

mLs#6003021 BaRgaIn PRICe! $189,900

devIL TRaCk Rd Home! Nice

home for someone looking for sweat equity, desirable location on 10 ac of nice land! Tons of potential! $180,000 mLs#6000256

Lake View home on 10 acres set up as a three apartment home between Lutsen and Grand Marais! Needs some repairs, but can’t beat the value. Attached 2 car plus detached 4 car garage!

mLs#6003371 ReduCed! $275,500

sa L e Ing d n e P neW deC 2014! FunCTIonaLLY desIgned FoR gReaT FamILY LIvIng! gReaT BuY aT $163,500 mLs#6003318

daRLIng LuTsen Home,

the perfect Hobby Farm! Fab location on Caribou Trail, Newer addition created main level and upper level bedrooms with modern baths, excellent use of space. Farmstyle kitchen and spacious living room overlook the apple trees and perennial gardens!

Garage, small greenhouse and barns!

mLs#6002736 $225,000

Guests with the Lake Superior views, quality crafted home with fine finishings and thoughtful design! Lovely setting perched atop the Sawtooth Ridges over Blue Fin Bay in Tofte! mLs#6002322 $550,000

location between Blue Fin Bay and Lutsen Mountains, make this your winter getaway retreat! Easy access to hiking, biking, snowmobiling…you name it and it’s within minutes! 4+ acres, nice Lake Superior views and a two plus garage! mLs#6000042 $140,000

CusTom CRaFTsmansHIP,

Small Footprint design! Main level bedrm and Loft bedrm, large office, bath on upper and main floor! Huge, heated workshop/ garage, any man’s dream! Very affordable living with option to rent the garage apt. with a little finishing! mLs#6002254

moTIvaTed seLLeR $234,900

LoveLY Home In CounTRY seTTIng just West of Grand Marais” Tons of light

flows through this home, hillside views on level land with great Family Home, a Must See! Great craftsroom, Large kitche open to Dining, this home offers a ton!

mLs#6003299 $165,000 ReduCed!

sTaRTeR, keePeR! Zippy

Grand Marais home, large yard and Neat Home! A Must See at $99,000

mLs#6003099

TuCked aLong sPRIngdaLe Rd. Developed build site with drive, sheds, sauna and drilled well! Older trailer home.

$52,700 mLs#6003229

daRLIng LITTLe Log CaBIn In BeauTIFuL seTTIng! Must See interior of cabin

with hickory floors and exposed hewn logs, Fabulous Vibe! Great Tofte location!

mLs#6003135 $99,000

Rugged TeRRaIn CRadLes THIs sHoWBoaT CaBIn!

Towering Pines silhouettes the view toward Lake Superior from the upstairs deck, a nice functional design with open kitchen to family room, newer construction with garage!

mLs#6002692 $209,900

LookIng FoR THe LaRge FamILY! Tons of space in this 4 plus bedrm

home with Mother In Law Suite so you get free baby sitting!!! A Must See, very near to the Schools and the y! mLs#6003097 $199,000

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CAMPN’, HUNTN’, FUN GETAWAy LAND, INVEST IN yOUR FUTURE! siLver Bay to LittLe Marais to FinLand & isaBeLLa! New! Rocky Wall Overlooking Lake Superior just outside Silver Bay

PRICe ReduCed! $105,000 mLs#6003239

Entrepreneurs Wanted! Commercial land with storage buildings in place, Lake Superior side of Hwy in Schroeder. Perfect for additional storage bldgs. To increase revenues, or start a Hardware, contractor, Farmer’s Market spot…May build to suit!!

mLs#6002386 $99,000

toFte area near BLueFin Bay resort!

LeVeaux Mountain, Super Views and Wildlife Ponds! FRom $52,500

80 acres for $79,000 Blesner Lake Rd!

mLs#6003110

Show Stopping Views from this White Tail Ridge Building Site, looks over Wolf Ridge ELC, Astounding Mountain Top Views! mLs#6002468 $79,000 Rocky Wall land with Driveway in place, HUGE views of Shovel Point!

mLs#6002929 & mLs#6002995

lakeshore! Several acres of privacy and way more than 200 ft of Level Access Lake Superior shoreline in Schroeder, near Sugarloaf Cove Naturalist Area!

Super Building Site on Honeymoon Trail Lutsen locale with electric and all year access! High ground!

Cool Spot for your Dream Home!

Driveway is in place leading to a drop dead gorgeous building site with ledge rock vertical drop water fall!

Grand Marais Location Location Location!

60 Acres Minutes to Grand Marais near Devil Track Lake! Easy walking/biking access across Fed land to Monker Lake!

15 aC and approx.. 2000 ft of shoreline on Tanner Lake in Isabella! mLs#6002450 $170,000 sWeeT CLaRa Lake LuTsen sHoReLIne! Level Access from Build Site

Birch Drive just west of Grand Marais, wilderness living with SUPER build sites, borders USFS lands, year round access! Great buy at $45,000 ReduCed! WoW!

voYageuR PoInT on PoPLaR Lake! New boat dock allows you to get out

FRom $53,000 mLs#29252

mLs#6002624 ReduCed! $54,900

New! Mature Spruce and BIG Lake Views!

Walk to Blue Fin Bay, drilled well in place!

$49,900 mLs#6003482

Lutsen Lake views & wiLderness Lands!

Turnagain Trail Hunting Parcel!

Convenient to Everything, but end of the Road! FRom $59,000 mLs#6003036 Over 15 ac of Wilderness on Turnagain Trail in Lutsen! mLs#6002934 $69,500 Prime Build Site(s) just off theCaribou at Jonvick Creek! $49,000 mLs#6003188 Gorgeous 5 acre parcels in the Heart of Lutsen paved Caribou Trail locale bordering USFS lands!

mLs#6002383 FRom 54,900-$77,500

Rollins Ridge land, hike to Oberg Mtn from your front door! mLs#6002351

ReduCed! $49,900

What an opportunity!

30 plus acres on Lutsen’s Ski Hill Rd, just down the hill from the Midwest’s best ski area: Lutsen Mountains. Great views of Lake Superior and toward Moose Mountain. Property has coveted resort, commercial, residential designation. The possibilities are endless!!

FRom $70,000 mLs#6001560-66 10 Ac Parcels of Maples! Scramble across the Rolling Terrain of Mature Maples (Breathtaking in the Fall) to a Sweet Building site Perched Over a Mixed Boreal Forest, Good Levels of Serenity For Sure! year Round Access and Electric at Road! mLs#6000676 $56,900 Sugarloaf Retreats on High Ridge Drive, located up the Surgaloaf Road from Sugarloaf Cove Naturalist Area, Enjoy large acreage parcels at rock bottom prices! From $62,000! mLs#25701-4

dReamY Lake suPeRIoR land and

Toftevaag on the Sawbill, Nice Lake Views! Walk to the Coho, great location!

$45,000 mLs#6003185

DRAMATIC Mountain Top Views, Rolling Hills, Maple Forests fading in to Spruce and Pine and yEAR ROUND ACCESS…simply said a MAGNIFICENT piece of land…tons of acreage available, or just pick up a 40 for $70,000! MUST SEE, call Emily today! MLS#6001560, multiple#’s call for full map and prices!

mLs#6002791 $250,000

mLs#6001685 $79,000

Huge Lake Superior views, build site surrounded by cliff wall and creek! mLs#6001295 $89,900

Gorgeous Acreage Overlooking Sawtooth Range! yr Round, Electric.

on hillside building site with the backdrop of ledgerock walls and Ledgerock boulder shoreline, an Architect’s Dream Site, an incredible piece of land and lakeshore!

mLs#6001346 From $17,500!!

mLs#6001324

$87,900 mLs#6002164

mLs#31531 $37,900

JaW dRoPPIng CooL CaRIBou Lake LoT! Mature Maples, Birch and Cedars

Just Up the Sawbill Trail Grab your little piece of the Northwoods, rolling terrain and small community feel with year round access, great build sites!

Sonju Lake Road in Finland!

Several large parcels from $44,900

schroeder area near the cross river!

40 Ac of Maples and boreal forest meandering toward a sweet moose pond and creek, with driveway in place and cleared build site! mLs#6002822 $125,000 Sweet mint cabin on 10 ac of maples!

Lovely 20 acre parcel located on the outskirts of Lutsen, only minutes to Bigsby and Caribou Lakes! Nice mixed forest with high ground for choice building sites.

Great price for your Northwoods getaway!

Lakeshore BuiLd sites!

Gorgeous Views of Williams and Wills Lake in Lutsen! year Round Access, electric, Mountain Top site bordering USFS land. A Wonderful place to build your Northwoods home!

mLs#6002434 $99,000

160 acre parcel of upland maples and boreal forest. Beautiful forest, absolute quiet, total seclusion. Owned by the same family since 1904! mLs#6002612 $140,000

30 acres of Prime Wilderness Land with year round access and electric at street with Views of Lutsen’s famed Clara Lake! mLs#6001462 $137,500

mLs#6002951 $269,900

Honeymoon Trail Wildlife Lands!

10 Ac nearby Poplar River in Lutsen, great hunting or hiking land at a SUPER GREAT price! Nice Boreal Forest with build site bordering USFS lands!

mLs#26729 $39,900

mLs#6001796 $28,800

mLs#6002586 $95,900

mLs#6002349

A River Runs Through It! 160 Acres of Upland and River Frontage on the Cascade River near Eagle Mountain, a Rare Find with tons of opportunity. Whether Hunting land or Wilderness Retreat, this is a Great Opportunity! mLs#31732 $140,000 Own your own park in the heart of Grand Marais! mLs#6002396 $17,000 Bordering Cascade River Park!

Potential to subdivide or keep it all for yourself! Nice Lake Superior Views from multiple build sites, hike right in to the Park land with access to Cascade River falls and Lake Superior! mLs#31097 $200,000 County Rd 7 Murphy Mountain Lake View lands! Bargain Buys in young Poplar Forest, easy clearing for Sweet Lake Superior Views for as little as $39,900! Or Enjoy Hilltop Build Site with driveway in place, creek bordering site for $89,900! mLs#25633 60 Ac with Lake Views E of Grand Marais!

Keep this gem all to yourself and enjoy plenty of elbow room! mLs#6002841 $124,900 Parten Way on Pike Lake Rd! Panoramic Vistas of the Sawtooths, road rough in, a five minute drive to new Pike Lake Landing! yr Round access! $39,900 uP mLs#6003047 Wild Plum Drive, East of Grand Marais!

Nice level build site, yr round and electric avail. $49,900 mLs#6003492

mLs#6001554 ReduCed! $275,000

to Rocky Shores, your Future Cabin will overlook Superior National Forest Lands! Electric, yr round access, Old Cabin in place to use now and build later! mLs#26055 $199,000

over the water and look down the bay. Nice path from dock to boat house and to elevated home site. mLs#6002494 $159,000

BaRgaIn CLaRa Lake sITe!

yr Round Access, Electric at street and cleared build site perfect for your Getaway Cabin on Coveted Clara Lake! mLs#6001680 $150,000

LaRge LakesHoRe LoT on CHRIsTIne Lake in Lutsen, year

round access with over 10 acres and 200 feet of shoreline! Hilltop building site with cleared path thru cedar forest to Christine Lake, a super wilderness lake great for paddling your days away!

mLs#28961 $129,000

mY oH mY mILes oF vIeW!

Lake Superior Sprawls from your feet on a park like Serene Lakeshore parcel with plenty of shoreline from an elevated building site. A Must See! mLs#6002686 $275,000

meandeR doWn THe dRIveWaY to your Inland Lake Dream

Spot! Level Lake Access on White Pine Lake in Lutsen, year round access, bordering federal land with electric at Driveway. Tons of Value, One of a Kind Spot, Must See! mLs#6002667

$175,000 gReaT vaLue! 400 FT WITH 14 aC on devIL TRaCk Lake! What more can we say? Oh yes, there is a nice meandering driveway through mature red pines leading to level access beach shoreline. Quite nice!

mLs#6002721 $375,000

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4520 Cascade Beach Road Lake Superior - Lutsen

S O L D!

Classic North Shore cabin, 3 BD, 2 BA, beautiful setting, wood floors & stone fireplace.

MLS 6002048 $450,000

1 Norwood Shores - Lutsen Lake Superior Townhome CED REDU

Enjoy your days on Lake Superior in Lutsen with this 2 BR, 1 BA four season low maintenance Townhome.

MLS 6002488 $249,000

Nan Bradley 218-370-8433

lockport@boreal.org

www.coldwellbanker.com/website/Lake.Superior.Properties Aspen Ridge - 5 Acres Lake Superior Views

345 Seagull Lake Rd Seagull Lk - Gunflint Trail

4 BD, 2 BA lake home. Lakeviews from every room.

Furnished inc dock and pontoon boat. Must see!!!

MLS 6003276 $435,000

Located between Tofte/Lutsen, spectacular lake views, borders Superior National Forest, Must See!!

MLS 6003159 $69,000

Architecture-designed home with guest quarters at door of BWCA. MLS 6001517 $959,000

Lake Superior 5 Acres 7974 W Hwy 61 - Schroeder

Lutsen Resort Log Cabin Lake Superior Living

256 Carlson Trail Christine Lake - Lutsen

120 White Sky Drive Caribou Lake - Lutsen SaLE g in PEnD

S O L D!

Must see! 5 BD, 3 BA, gourmet kitchen, owners suite, fireplace, accessible & beautiful shoreline MLS 6001652 $699,000

Have your own log cabin at historic Lutsen Resort. Rental revenues to offset ownership costs, fine dining, resort amenities for daily activities.

MLS 6002457 $435,000

7072 Two Moose Trail Wilson Lake - Finland

Four Seasons Guest House 6374-78 W Hwy 61 - Tofte

West facing 280’ lakeshore property. Driveway, electric, etc, 7.2 acre parcel.

MLS 6000588 $268,000

Accessible Lake Superior shoreline sits this 3BD local craftsman home plus 3 rental units. 5+ acres great location! MLS TBA $399,900

124 Bridge Run - Lutsen Caribou Highlands Resort

Devil Track Lake Walter Rd - Grand Marais

S O L D!

Tastefully furnished custom log cabin w/200’ lakeshore. Hunt, fish, bike & hike right out your door.

MLS 6003325 $227,900

Land Listings

Near Paradise Beach 5 acre parcel to enjoy life near the shore with Lake Superior views. MLS 29901 $39,900 20 Acres - Lutsen Caribou Trail. MLS 6001675 $149,000

Wooded lot, nice shoreline, views, power, phone.

MLS 29981 Only $129,900

Land near Lk Superior Park Tofte Park Rd Tofte Prime 4A parcel

has location and great value for dream cabin.

Buy 2A for $65,450 near Tofte boat access MLS 6002831 $119,000

Commercial - 126 Airport Rd Grand Marais Airport

Townhome sleeps 4, oversize deck, rental revenues - offset ownership costs and $6,500 in escrow for future projects WIFI MLS 6001762 $94,000

Commercial hanger, heated, electric, insulated, rental income.

MLS 6001751 $249,900

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lake superior properties oNe oF a kiND lake superior parCel

iNlaND Water properties trout HaveN

This Lake Superior lot has ledge rock, coves, creeks and a spectacular view of the lighthouse in Grand Marais and the Sawtooth Mountain ridges to the west. Only a short walk to the shops and dining in Grand Marais. The over-sized septic was installed and built to accommodate 5+ bedrooms. End of the road privacy, private bridge over a bubbling creek to access the site.

Mls#6003042 $729,000

solituDe oN looN lake.

These lots are located on the south side of Loon Lake and offers great lake views. The main road is in place and power is on the lot line. These lots offer a great shoreline and many nice trees.

lake superior beaver bay lot.

Elevated site with slope to lake. Rugged shoreline. Towering white pines, spruce, birch and cedar. Must be seen to be appreciated. Views to offshore island. Great building site.

Mls #6002594 $379,000 2 speCtaCular lake superior lots at terraCe poiNt. Outstanding

shoreline views all the way to Artist Point & Grand Marais.

Each has dramatic shoreline.

Great location west of town.

Mls #6001605, 6002124, 6002128 $192,000 total peaCe aND privaCy– greeNWooD lake

Spectacular custom executive log home and retreat located on 2 lots, 750' of shoreline and over 13 acres. The main home consists of 2932 sq ft of living space. 3 bedrooms including a lovely master suite, 2 baths with showers and one with whirlpool tub. The lake view is spectacular through lots of glass from all the rooms. Mls# 6002467 $989,000

Huge parCel CasCaDe lake. This

priced at Mls 6000590, $600,000 and Mls 6001067 $300,000 CasCaDe beaCH CabiN Spectacular ledge rock

Lake Superior parcel on Cascade Beach Road. There are rock out-croppings, a cove and could be improved to year round use.

Mls# 6002552 $399,000 CHiCago bay HoMe. Located along

coveted Chicago Bay Road, this charming Lake Superior cottage has fresh paint, new carpet and counters. Roomy spaces with large windows for great views of the lake.

is the only private land on the lake. Enjoy the utmost privacy and unspoiled wilderness views with 87 acres and over 3,000’ of shoreline. Includes a well-maintained cabin, sauna, dock and outhouse. Easy year-round access. Unique opportunity to own a private wilderness compound! Mls #31513 $700,000.

NeW! Harriet lake retreat. Lots of Privacy, Lakeshore, Acreage

plus 2 Older Cabins. Want seclusion? Here is a classic homestead property at the end of a private road. It has 87 acres and 1300 feet of shoreline on a peaceful bay of Harriet Lake. There is no other private land on the bay, and adjoining on two side of this property. It's just you and the Superior National Forest! There are two older cabins that can be swept out and put to use. They're in pretty good shape. Good road access, good fishing and lots of white pines. Mls# 6003484 $325,000

NeW! bearskiN lake CabiN. Log Cabin,

Mls# 6002611 $185,000 sHareD lake superior liviNg. This spectacular building

site has pristine views of the shoreline from a nicely elevated lot. The site was prepared and is ready to build your dream home. Water, sewer, electric and broadband are ready for hookup. Only 8 owners share a park-like setting on the big lake, with gentle beach and a scenic river. Secure and private with owners association to share expenses. Building plans available. A garage site included. Located east of Grand Marais, with lake access nearby, and easy proximity to the wilderness.

Mls 6003400 $124,900

Six lots at Trout Haven at Hare Lake at a package price. Excellent investment opportunity.

Lots platted and ready to sell.

Great location within 20 minutes of Lutsen/Tofte, and just minutes from many great fishing and camping lakes in the Timber-Frear chain or BWCAW. The lots have nice elevation and gentle shoreline access. Power and phone, county road, good home or cabin sites. Mls#6003161 $295,000

Towering Pines, West Bearskin Lake. Totally charming Charlie Boostrom log cabin sits in a forest of towering white and red pines.

The cabin is in great shape and has been lovingly maintained. This is your ideal vision of the perfect log cabin on a great wilderness lake.

The 2 bedroom cabin is a summer-use place to reflect and escape.

Hardwood floors, beamed ceilings and large kitchen. It comes furnished and is ready for you to move in. There's a sauna in the lower level with a stone foundation and plenty of storage room for your gear. The dock is ready for your boat, and the wilderness is calling with easy access into the BWCAW just a short paddle down this premier Gunflint Trail Lake. Mls# 6003448 $319,000

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guNFliNt lake CabiN iN piNe Forest. This cabin sits on a

fantastic pine filled lot with 200 feet of meandering shore and fabulous view of the Canadian shore across the lake. The cabin needs work, it's in rough shape, but it has classic features like a wall of glass overlooking the lake, cathedral ceilings with loft and large open floor plan. A super location with great access to Gunflint and the BWCAW. Adjoining lots available. Mls 6003420 $299,000

WilsoN lake lot. Strikingly beautiful 5.4 acre lot, 355’ of shoreline with great build sites near the lake or tucked around the bluff for gorgeous views. Mls #6002430 $259,500.

MCFarlaND lake CabiN Beautiful cedar log cabin on

McFarland Lake. Cozy hide-away with sauna building, Log guest cabin, storage building. Great shoreline with new dock.

Partially furnished. Large deck, nice cedar trees. Great view of palisade. Mls #6002033 $259,000

guNFliNt trail-tuCker lake lot. Have tons of privacy on

this 3.68-acre lake lot with over 550 feet of shoreline, plus 237 feet more shore across the private road, in a protected bay. Nice trees, great building site. Pristine views, and direct access to the BWCAW. Tucker is a natural environment lake with a 10 horsepower motor limit. The lot has been approved for septic. Mls 6003363 $239,900

guNFliNt lake, bWCaW, aND borDer vieWs. Nicely el-

evated lake lot, large white pine, easy access to the rocky, classic wilderness shoreline. Outstanding views of the Canadian shore. Super building sites with driveway in place, and power, phone and Broadband available. Meandering 200 feet of boulder shoreline. Rare chance to own a vacant lot on Mile-O-Pine Road. Mls 6003422 $230,000

guNFliNt lake, piNes, vieWs. Nicely

elevated lake lot with easy access to the 200 feet of meandering shoreline. Outstanding views of the Canadian shore. Super building site and classic wilderness lake shoreline on this huge border lake. Driveway is in, power, phone and Broadband available. Rare chance to own a vacant lot on Mile-O-Pine Road. Mls 6003423 $230,000

NortH FoWl lake. Rare opportunity to

own a private wilderness escape.

2 BRs, full kitchen, comfortable living room and large deck.

Large open yard, sauna, storage shed and dock. Great privacy, 200’ of shoreline, abutting the BWCAW. Water access. Mls #30184 $199,000.

Devil traCk lake - lot. This Devil Track Lake lot has easy access from county road, power, phone and great building sites. South shore, 200 ft. frontage, great views. Build your home on the lake here. Mls #6001771 $198,900.

iNlaND Water properties

iNlaND Water properties lot 1, NiNeMile lake End of the road, large lot

MCFarlaND lake - lot 5 acres and 244’ feet

adjoins Superior National Forest and Cabin Creek Unit Roadless area. Great trees, views and building site. Power, year-round round access.

of shoreline waiting for your getaway. Paddle directly into the BWCAW or relax by the shore taking in the view of the Palisades. Mls# 6002905 $179,500

aMaZiNg HoMe Near trestle piNe lake.

3 BR, 2 BA home up the Gunflint Trail only a few minutes from many great lakes. Great cabing set in a private lot.

The interior has an open bright feeling and is move-in ready!

Mls #6002885 $169,000

Quality Devil traCk lake lot.

Heavily wooded south shore lot with 150’ of shore. Easy shoreline, great views, excellent building sites. Power/phone. More shoreline available. Mls #6001770 $149,900.

greeNWooD lake

Lovely, wooded lot on desirable Greenwood Lake. High elevation with spectacular views of the whole lake, bays and islands. This lot is surveyed, has a new driveway and turn around. Mls#6002946 $119,000

lot 8, NiNeMile lake

Enjoy expansive views from this parcel that features a spectacular point with 548' of shoreline. Property features 2.3 acres with ledgerock outcroppings, mixed tree cover, and outstanding views. For added privacy, lot adjoins State of MN lands for undeveloped shoreline as your neighbor to the south. Mls #6003205 $97,900

CasCaDe river property. If you're looking for peace, quiet, and beautiful wilderness views, this could be the location for you. Off the beaten path, yet good access. Good building sites on 25 acres overlooking the beautiful Cascade River. Mls #6002440 $84,900 trout HaveN.

Six nicely wooded, west-facing lakelots on Hare Lake. Easy county road access. Power available. Beautiful views, nice shoreline, good trout fishing. starting at $82,000.

Flute reeD river property

Very nice property for your homestead or retreat. The river meanders through with a perfect build site. Heavily wooded. Electric at the road.

Year round access. Mls#6003200 $45,000

sNoWsHoe ruN lots

Snowshoe run is set along a high ridge overlooking Hare Lake in a mature northern hardwood forests.

Year-round plowed and maintained county roads, power at each property and a clear water, trout lake. These beautiful home sites were planned for generations of enjoyment and are protected by covenants. Mls# 6003206

thru 6003212 prices start at $24,900

CoNDoMiNiuMs NeW! sea villa-lake superior

MiD-trail soutH FaCiNg lot in a private

development of 11 lots surrounded by US Forest land. Heavy tree coverage of mature of red and white pine and cedar. Minutes from the amenities of the mid Gunflint Trail area. Mls 6003402 $99,000

aCreage overlookiNg guNFliNt lake. Privacy

near the BWCAW with 27 acres and outstanding views of Gunflint Lake and the Canadian shore. Fronting the Mile-O-Pine Road with power, phone and Broadband available. Subdivision potential.

Mls 6003421 $95,000 NeW! sister lake parCel.

Mls #6003203 $89,300

Nice lake lot with good tree cover, high and level building sites. High point of surrounding area has awesome views. Excellent shoreline with great views of the lake. Partial driveway already in place.

The lot is potentially part of a pending plat which allows access to two other lakes by portages: Harriet and Five Dam Lakes.

Power is possible. Mls #6003499 $89,600

Walk into this newly remodeled Sea Villa and you'll feel as if you're walking right into Lake Superior it's so close to the water's edge! The entire main floor has been tastefully remodeled inside and out.

Over $35,000 worth of improvements make this home stylish, comfortable & inviting while still holding onto the North Shore charm. Successful rental revenue is a big plus, too!! Owners and guests can walk to the pool/sauna building and to the playground. Build a bonfire right on the shoreline on those bold, starry nights. A bright & welcoming open concept style on the main level really lends toward togetherness and relaxation. Picture it now: a fire roaring in the woodstove, the waves crashing, a fantastic dinner cooking in the new kitchen...create meals and memories!! The Gitchee-Gami Bike Trail runs right in front of the Sea Villas and the Lutsen Ski Resort is a mere 5 minutes away. Take advantage of the hiking trails that are all nearby, fish the inland lakes. Mls #003518 $249,900

paNoraMiC vieWs Unit 11A and 11B at Terrace Point offers buyers an opportunity to enjoy panoramic lake views and Lake Superior experiences.

Architectural designs inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and John Howe. There are numerous built in furnishings built

to a high standard. Mls#6002759 $235,000 and Mls#6002760 $215,000

CoNDoMiNiuMs lake superior CoNDo/toFte. Great

lake views from this 2 bedroom + loft unit with 2 baths, fireplace, balcony looking up the shore. Chateau LeVeaux offers many updated amenities, indoor pool, sauna, game room, and on-site manager. Mls #6000473 $100,000.

NeW! uNit 11, CHateau leveaux. Priced to sell! This

fully-furnished lower level unit walks out to a beautiful view of Lake Superior. Futon in living room allows flex space for extra guests. Guest suites within building available for reduced owner rates which allows even greater privacy. This is a terrific opportunity to own a piece of the big lake. Since it comes furnished, new owners can begin earning revenues immediately, offsetting their cost of ownership.

Mls# 6003472 $59,500

HoMes & CabiNs CouNtry HoMe WitH Huge sHop aND apartMeNt. Quality home on secluded 20

acres in maple forest. Sunny living/kitchen area. Expansive master loft-suite. Huge deck with large yard and open mature woods.

3-car garage. 3100 sq ft. shop/office/apt. perfect for cottage "industry" or other creative use. More land available. Mls# 6002767 $599,000

log HoMe privaCy - Flute reeD river.

Log Home Privacy. Tucked away on 10 heavily wooded acres is your dream log home and hide-a-way.

This home has all the warmth and charm of a north-woods lodge, with one level living, open great room, sunroom, and lots of windows that bring the beautiful forest and light inside. There is a charming studio cabin for your hobbies or for guests, a large 2-car detached garage with attached living space, and a 24 X 30 pole building. Lovingly built by the seller, you'll notice the quality, care and custom details as you approach from the long and enchanting drive.

Mls# 6003351 $336,500 CouNtry HoMe - HovlaND. Moose Valley 4 BR/3 BA home

on 7.76 acres. Master suite with huge walk-in closet. Open living room with stone fireplace, formal dining room, big kitchen.

Office/den opens into the attached garage. 32’ x 40’ pole building has storage for toys. Partially finished basement. Country living at its best!

Mls #6002258 priCe reDuCtioN! $229,000.

CouNtry liviNg. Enjoy peace and

calm with true country living.

Charming rambler nestled in 26 acres of meadow and woods. Plenty of storage, built ins, and garage space, even a heated studio! Mls #6002460 $242,500

CouNty roaD 60 graND Marais. Earth

home with over 5 acres and a creek.

South exposure with stone hearth and charming details. 4 BR, 3 BA with a 2-car detached garage. Updated and remodeled with many custom features. This home is designed for the person who wants to live the rural, energy-efficient lifestyle.

Mls #6001812. priCe reDuCtioN! $219,000

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HoMes & CabiNs beautiFul lutseN HoMe. 3- BR country home in Lut-

sen on 3.67 acres. Light filled living and dining rooms. Eat-in kitchen. 1 3/4 baths.

Full basement. Sauna. New septic system.

Double detached garage. Owner /agent.

Mls #6002162 priCe reDuCtioN! $209,000 NeW! CouNtry liviNg oN 2 aCres.Minutes to Grand

Marais. Well built and well maintained rambler. 3 bedrooms, One level living with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a full basement for future expansion.New steel siding, exterior doors and gutters. Very nice deck off the living room. 30 x 40 detached garage for all your storage needs. Mls 6003401 $195,000

great toFte loCatioN--2 beDrooM HoMe. Quality

built one-level home has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, full basement and attached heated garage. New tile and carpet flooring.

Nice deck off the dining room with a large private back yard. Huge spruce trees give lots of privacy. Commercial zoning if you want to run your business here. Mls#6003116 $179,900

seCluDeD retreat CaMp 15 loop. This 2 bdr,

home sits on 77 acres and features all the creature comforts with solar power and shower house, There’s a large 2-car garage with workshop plus 2 guest cabins that provide plenty of space for the whole family or group. Trails, solitude and wilderness – a perfect place to live remotely or as base-camp for your adventures.

Mls# 6001657 $174,900.

perFeCt starter HoMe. This cute and

affordable country home with a nice, private yard. There is an A frame cottage for storage or would make a great playhouse. This is a perfect starter or empty nester. Has a nice two car detached garage. Finished second bedroom in lower level, laundry and extra storage. Mls#6003034 $149,900

NeW priCe! log CabiN - roiliNg river. This log

home sits on the scenic Flute Reed River in Hovland, just a short walk to Lake Superior's shore. The seasonal cabin has a great screen porch, modern kitchen and comes furnished with cabin-style furnishings and sportsman's décor. +/- 400' of dramatic river frontage. You can't beat the sound of a North Shore river! Mls #6003153 $140,000.

CabiN - irisH Creek roaD.

Beautiful recreation, hunting, nicely forested land that hasn't been logged since early 1900.

Seller is a musher and has trails throughout property and old logging roads on adjoining state lands. Mls#6002992 $67,500

CoMMerCial properties store aND CabiNs big opportuNity.

Prime commercial location in Hovland with 1,000 feet of Highway 61 frontage. Large commercial space now operating as a gift shop, small 2 bedroom home and 1 functioning rental cottage. Two other small cabins could be rented, and there is room for many more.. Mls #6003052 $299,900

CeDar grove busiNess park lots.

Cedar Grove Business Park is the ideal location for your existing business or new start-up! Conveniently located in Grand Marais, near the start of the iconic Gunflint Trail. Full infrastructure in place including paved streets, municipal sewer and water, electric and telephone. Call us today for a guided tour of this unique and affordable business park opportunity.

NeW! CoMMerCial lots iN lutseN.

Two commercial-zoned lots fronting Hwy. 61 in Lutsen across from Lockport Store. Great visibility, nice forest, lake view. Third lot to north is zoned residential. Bring your business idea! Old blacksmith shop building on Lot 1. Mls# 6003506 $179,000

river/Creek FroNtage stuNNiNg river - piNCusHioN trails. A unique opportunity for skiers and hikers. Trail easement runs through the property. The RC zoning allows for a resort/lodging type business.

Mls #6003390 $85,900.

40 aCres - MoNs Creek FroNtage. easy road access. Good building sites. Mature trees. Deeded access to Lost Lake.

Mls #6002120 $79,900.

40 aC – lost lake retreats. Mons Creek flowage

with great views and tons of wildlife. Private and secluded location.

Includes deeded access to private lake. Mls #6002121 $79,500.

WooDs, Water & seClusioN. Nice ‘40’ with good timber and 1000’ frontage on Mons Creek. Great building site. Private deeded access to Lost Lake. Mls #6002119 $69,900. graND Marais - City lot oN Creek. Wooded lot with City services: water, sewer and electric at site. Nice south exposure and frontage on scenic Cedar Creek. Quiet street. Mls #6001830 $63,900 laND oN tHe Flute reeD river Enjoy privacy and seclusion in a deep 13 acre parcel with over 300 feet of trout stream.

County road with power, phone and broadband available. Good sites to build your home or cabin in the woods. Mls#6002960 $49,900

laND/builDiNg sites piNCusHioN trail parCel. This parcel has forest with direct access to the Pincushion Ski Trail system, Superior Hiking Trail and Devil Track River. Resort/Commercial zoning. Mls #6003391 $214,900.

NeW priCe! Caribou lake - HoMe site.

New price is well below tax assessed value, and seller is open to offers. Magnificent, old-growth cedar and maple trees frame a corner lot with a great, high build site on Sawmill Bay.185' of lake frontage. Mls# 6002756 $98,000 Maples, vieWs, privaCy. 85+ acres near Hovland.

Good end of road access, adjoining tons of federal land., great view of pond. South exposure and views. Mls#6003156 $99,900

laND/builDiNg sites Devil traCk area parCel.

Very nice 10 acre lot with direct access to South Shore Dr. Driveway to a cleared area that could be used as a building site. Slightly rolling terrain with moderately heavy growth that includes every type of Boreal Forest tree! Mls#6003184 $89,000 5 aCres - Walk to lake. Deep wooded home site – just steps from Devil Track Lake, and DNR access. Enjoy the lake without the high taxes! Mls #6002697 $72,500.

Maple Hill - HoMe site. Heavily wooded parcel with great privacy, county rd frontage, power and phone. Super location for your home or vacation retreat. Walk to golf course, easy access to Gunflint Trail or Devil Track area. Mls# 6002601 $70,500 tHirty aCres - paNoraMiC vieWs. Here is

one of those rare mountain tops with a 180 degree view of distant Lake Superior and views of the ridge to the north. It's spectacular! Trails are in place to walk the whole perimeter.

There is a cleared easement in place to

get to the property. Mls# 6003353 $68,900

10 aCres - graND Marais.

Great piece of property located minutes from Grand Marais, on Pike Lake Rd. Seasonal view of Lake Superior. Many nice build sites.

Mls #6001078 $64,900 laND - CouNty roaD 6.

Beautiful 5-ac lot just minutes from town. Meadow, power/phone. Shed and pond. Driveway in. Great home site.

Mls #6003084 $59,900.

Forty aCre paraDise.

Mixed topography of beautiful rolling land with many great build sites.

Old growth cedar, spruce, pine and birch. Mons Creek meanders through the property border where it abuts State land.

Mls #6003078 $50,250 WoNDerFul vieWs oF lake superior!

3 lots available; wooded and private. Minutes to ski hill, Superior National, Lutsen shops. Oberg Mt. Surveyed, year round access.

Mls #6002918, 6002919,06002920 lots start at $52,000. reCreatioNal parCel iN HovlaND.

43+ acres close to the public landing on Tom Lake. Survey complete; may subdivide into two 20+ acre parcels. Road plowed year round in special taxing district. Owner/Agent.

Mls #6001471 $37,500 oFF tHe beateN patH.

Can't beat this property for remoteness. If it's seclusion you seek, this wilderness 19-acre recreational property is for you. Surrounded by State & USFS lands. Hike in access from Devil Fish Lake.

Mls#6002961 $37,000.

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156 Stonegate Rd

1658 Croftville Road

3BR, 2BA gem of a lake home. Excellent lake views with wrap around deck on 4A with 212’ of shoreline. Beautiful hardwood floors, granite counters and quality custom solid wood cabinets.

3BR, 2BA, with 225’ of easily accessible meandering shoreline on very private lot. Enjoy your gas fireplace and a cozy, warm sunroom all on one level. Detached double car garage.

MLS 6002724 $599,900

MLS 6000697 $475,900

Lake Superior View

2580 E Hwy 61

Quality built, custom designed, 3 BR, 2BA home with tons of windows overlooking the lake. Granite fireplace, walkout lower level, attached garage, woodshed & paved driveway. 175’ of shore.

MLS 6003394

$469,900

Com m e r c ia l

Lar ge Acr eage 92A Tom Lake Rd - $79,900

Rolling, wooded, lots of potential for recreation or building.

MLS 6002723

110A W Highway 61 - $649,900 110A wooded land, on Hwy 61 corridor. Year round access, many development options, multiple zoning (Far-3, R-1, and Commercial)

MLS 6002185

Bloomquist Mtn. Road 5.8A - $44,900 10 miles east of Grand Marais with power at the property, driveway, and several building sites partially cleared!

MLS 6001709

NEW Silver Fox Rd - $69,900

5+ acres, located east of town, easy year round access, and utilities are all available. Very peaceful & quiet lot, perfect setting for building your dream home.

MLS 6002966

County Rd 67 - $69,900 4.16A with Lake Superior so close you can see the waves rolling in to the state-owned shoreline, meaning you’ll have walking access to the lake!

MLS 6002892

East Highway 61 - $59,900 20A

Large, private parcel close to town with elevation, meaning panoramic views of Lake Superior! Large building site has been leveled.

MLS 6000432

Murphy Mtn Rd - $67,500

View of Lake Superior, 5A, within 10 minutes of town. Surveyed, pins are all clearly marked, utilities in place and septic sites are identified.

MLS 6003425

200A Camp 12 Rd - $159,900

Surrounded by state and federal land. Mature trees, gently rolling topography.

MLS 6002411

40A Camp 12 Rd - $49,900

40A off of Irish Creek Rd. Surrounded on 3 sides by State land. Approx ¼ mile of babbling frontage on Irish Creek. MLS 6002405

43A County Road 7 - $299,900

Seasonal Lake

108 Gunflint Trail

4BR, 2BA home right on the Gunflint Trail. This lot is commercially zoned with great visible location at the beginning of the Gunflint Trail. 2.5 car garage could be converted to retail space.

MLS 6002154 $244,900

Superior views, multiple zoning, electric at road. MLS 6002300 Good location and large 40A tract. Power available. Access via logging road and easement off Arrowhead Trail. Exceptional price!

MLS 6002427

25A Tom Lake Rd - $49,900 25A close to Tom Lake.

Enjoy the lake without the high lakeshore taxes. MLS 6002625 Excellent property priced right. Electric and phone at street. Private access from Co Rd 69.

MLS 6002839

Forest Rd 304 - $164,900

80A of maples, spruce and balsam, Durfee Creek and beaver ponds. Bordered on two sides by public lands.

MLS 6003013

A successful business in a great location, a known and respected source for repair and tires. Proven business opportunity with a convenient place to live. Truly turnkey with employees.

MLS 6002504 $549,000

Broadway Ave Grand Marais

40A County Road 69 - $39,900

115+A Arrowhead Trail - $84,900

Tire & Auto Lodge

Beaver House

Dreaming of owning your own business? The iconic Beaver House in Grand Marais could be yours!

Great location and strong seasonal repeat business. Fantastic business opportunity.

MLS 6002317 $249,900

Rare vacant land zoned commercial in downtown Grand Marais.

This commercial opportunity is a special find with excellent location just north of the Beaver House offering high visibility and heavy seasonal traffic.

MLS 6002316 $99,900

W Hwy 61

Nicely wooded with development opportunities. Zoned Commercial and R-1.

MLS 6002301 $149,900

Lk Superior Lots

Condos

2888 W Hwy 61 - $319,900 Great views with 1.24A, 200’ ledgerock shoreline embedded with Thomsonite Stones. Close to town, relatively easy building site and nice mix of trees.

MLS 6002353

Big Bay, Hovland - $87,500

East Bay Suites

Grand Marais Condo Bluefin Bay - Tofte

Units at Bluefin Bay offer stunning views of Superior and access to both award winning amenities and restaurants! Excellent rental potential.

Unit 16 2BR, 2BA unit with stunning view over the old Tofte Harbor.

Two bedroom units with Lake Superior views and underground heated parking.

Convenient walk anywhere city living!

3BR, 2BA, open floor plan and deck with Lake Superior and village views.

The ultimate in vacation living. East Bay Suites consistently provides high occupancy rates all year long.

MLS 6002655 $315,000

MLS 6003092 $159,900

Become an owner at Lake Superior’s newest premiere resort, Surfside on Superior.

Quarter-share ownership is 13-weeks of year-round, maintenance-free ownership which you can decide to use yourself or generate rental income to offset the costs associated with ownership.

MLS 6002764 $189,000 MLS 6003432 $215,000

MLS 6002372

Stonegate Road - $239,000 Your choice of 3 Hovland lake lots!

Features 2+ acres with 200’ of frontage.

Very private, convenient location & well wooded.

MLS 6002103

MLS 6000300 $309,000 Unit 45 3BR, 3BA unit, recently remodeled. Can be rented as two units or one.

MLS 6002761 $455,000

Surfside on Superior

Deep Lake Superior lot w/11A of heavily wooded land. Gently sloping topography to 318’ of shore. PRICED TO SELL!!

57XX East Hwy 61 - $129,900

Inn at Terrace Point Quality, quality, and more quality.

1BR, 1BA unit with walkout comfort to enjoy your lake patio. Outstanding architecture by John Howe (a Frank Lloyd Wright student).

MLS 6001369 $199,000

4.1A Hovland lake lot, 281’ shore. Driveway, septic mound, and electric in place.

East to walk shingle/small cobble beach.

Temperance Landing

MLS 6002142

Unfinished true log home in stunning Temperance Landing development.

Buyer may purchase unfinished and bring in their own contractor or home is available to be finished by builder for $495,000.

MLS 6001904 $240,000

5788 E Hwy 61 - $225,000 5A Lake Superior lot; 280’ shore. Driveway, septic mound, and underground electric already in place. Easy-to-walk shingle/small cobble beach.

MLS 6002980

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Homes & Cabins

263 Devil Track Rd

2BR, 2BA, minutes from Grand Marais, huge garage with room for cars and a full collection of toys. Spiral stairs show off craftsmanship while the windows open onto great views.

MLS 6002503

1373 Schoolhouse Road

2117 E Hwy 61

6012 North Rd

2BR home, new furnace, septic system, well pump, siding and gutters on over 6A. Detached two-car garage. Gardener’s dream with indoor greenhouse, blueberries, raspberries and apple trees.

Sunny 2BR home with impressive floor to ceiling split natural granite stone fireplace.

Many upgrades through the years, large deck and yard, insulated chicken coop, garden beds & sheds.

Exceptional 2BR home with fantastic Lake Superior views on 5A. Just minutes from town, open floor plan, large thermo-pane windows with beautiful views from every room and deck.

MLS 6003196 $189,900

MLS 6003513 $198,900

MLS 6003424 $349,900

$254,900

406 N Broadway

2291 County Rd 7

Spacious, open custom built and designed country estate showplace with 3BR, 2BA on 10A. Large horse arena, artist’s/writer’s cabin, and Lake Superior views. Total quality!

MLS 6002681 $779,000

415 W 5th Ave

49 W 9th St

3BR, 1BA home with high ceilings, gas fireplace, sliding doors leading to a large front deck and a solid foundation.

Central location in Grand Marais. Yard consists of 4 city lots.

Year round family home with 3BR, 2BA. Oversize 3.5A lot, space for gardening, 2 car garage and full basement. Wood burning furnace and LP gas hot water heat boiler.

MLS 6002423 $129,900

MLS 6003081 $199,900

45 Casper Hill Rd

415 E 4th Ave

Lovely 3BR, 2BA home, centrally located in Grand Marais. Updated kitchen with stainless appliances. Large deck overlooking the landscaped yard, big trees and gardens, and BIG detached garage.

MLS 6003429 $279,900

260 County Rd 48

2BR gem in the heart of town!

Wood floors, gas fireplace, granite counters, and stainless steel appliances are featured in this lovely Grand Marais home.

2BR open concept, year round home tucked away in the woods on 5A. Detached 2 car garage with workshop; 2BR guest cabin, lovely perennial gardens, mature trees and lots of wildlife.

3-4BR home on 7.66A. Lake Superior views, landscaped yard, raised garden beds, huge deck. Full basement with plenty of space for a workshop and family room just 5 minutes from town.

MLS TBD $154,900

MLS 6003112 $229,900

MLS 6003519 $289,900

7249 Hwy 61 - Tofte

328 Ball Club Rd

Charming cabin on 20A, about 15 minutes from GM. Close to great fishing lakes, the cabin overlooks a delightful pond that is a magnet for deer, moose and other wildlife.

MLS 6002565

415 E 3rd Ave

Well-built 4BR home with Lake Superior views, on 2A of level, commercially zoned land. 32’ x 40’ garage makes this the perfect site for small business expansion, studio and workshop space.

Well built 2BR home with park like setting in a quiet part of town. Massive wood burning fireplace insert, all one level living, but upper level also now being used as artist studio.

MLS 6003375 $199,900

MLS 6002974 $269,000

$129,900

Land Gunflint Trail

6A, great location right off of the Gunflint Trail, close to town AND the golf course. Utilities are readily available. Healthy mix of trees.

MLS 6001301 $39,900

Have you always wanted to live on a golf course?

Here is 9A adjacent to Gunflint Hills Golf course with a great mixture of trees!

PENDING MLS 6003224 $50,000

Wood Mountain Rd

This affordably priced 8+ acre lot abuts Federal Land, is surveyed & septic sites are identified.

Located off Taylor Land & is close to town.

MLS 6002424 $47,900

Squint Lake

5A surrounded on 2 sides by government land.

Convenient mid-trail location with easy access to many recreational activities.

County Rd 14

Roman’s Rd

Nicely wooded 20A parcel consisting of two lots!

Year round access with electricity and telephone readily available. MLS 6002375 $74,900 10A with year round access, electricity and phone.

Abuts Federal land and provides access to an incredible amount of Gov’t land.

MLS 6002376 $44,900

116 Overlook Dr

3.33A with Lake Superior view, privacy, and is user friendly for building. Located at the end of Overlook Trail in Tofte, utilities available & year round access.

MLS 6003380 $59,900

Silver Fox Rd

5A of northwoods privacy with all modern conveniences about 8 minutes from town. Gently rolling with some very attractive building sites. Abuts government land.

MLS 6002967 $49,900

MLS 6003242 $69,900

Close to Devil Track Lake and lots of recreational activities.

1.06A MLS 6002324 $19,900 1.72A MLS 6002323 $29,900

Solberg Lane

20A close to town but is definitely off-the-grid for a real North Woods getaway. Nicely elevated with the possibility of solar and wind power. Rustic outhouse and bunkhouse cabin on the site.

MLS 6003176 $62,800

20A remote with exceptional privacy close to town.

Additional acreage available.

MLS 6003311 $33,900

Stonegate RD

2A with lots of potential uses. Power, phone, and broadband are a stones throw away.

MLS 6003282 $21,000

Rosebush Hill Lane

Nicely wooded 5.40A with shared driveway only minutes from town. Identified septic sites and fully surveyed! Approx. 430’ of creek frontage.

OWNER will consider a Contract for Deed!

MLS 6003093 $49,900

W Hwy 61

Great location and development opportunities right off Hwy 61! 7.1A Commercial lot (Zoned Commercial and R-1). Additional acreage of R-1 behind.

Agent Owned.

MLS 602301 $149,900

County Rd 7

Wooded 5A parcel with nice mix of trees and fields with quality build sites. Privacy yet close to town, this property is the perfect place for you northwoods home!

MLS 6002413 $79,900 5A of nicely wooded, level land. Very private but close to town on County Road 7. South of the intersection of Co Rd 7 and Co Rd 44.

MLS 6002282 $54,900

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Inland

Devil Track Lake

McFarland Lake

Lake

Homes

Greenwood Lake

Poplar Lake

Gunflint Lake

3BR, open layout with unique kitchen and master bath. 150’ shore on 1A with two porches, two storage sheds, and a fully furnished 3BR cabin, all with great views of the lake!

2BR full cedar log cabin with over 300 feet of shore! Cathedral ceilings, wood floors, LOTS of windows overlooking the lake, ¾ bath and gas appliances. Complete yearround generator/solar panel system.

Picturesque, low maintenance cabin on 2 acres & 400’ shoreline. Nice size main BR, sleeping loft, open LR/DR with lots of windows. enticing deck overlooks the lake.

Fire pit and shared boat launch.

Very quiet 1.8A with over 200’ shore.

Driveway in place with a newly built (2011) garage on site! Close to Trail Center, but the ultimate in BWCA access with multiple portage routes out of Poplar lake.

Year-round access to charming log cabin on 7.78A and 150’ of shore! Wood interior with pitched/cathedral ceilings and propane lights, stove and fridge. There’s also a detached garage, outhouse and 12x12 storage shed!

MLS 6003002 $219,000

MLS 6003130 $349,900

MLS 6003430 $199,900

MLS 6003273 $179,900

MLS 6003253 $199,900

Greenwood Lake

McFarland Lake

Flute Reed River

Birch Lake

Clearwater Lake

3BR, 2BA cedar cabin with 4 season porch that overlooks the lake. Private boat landing, 200’ shore, dock, and multiple off grid operating systems so you can enjoy cell phone,

2BR cabin with large loft on 3.21A and 151’ of shore. Beautiful kitchen; large center island and granite countertops. LR has high, vaulted ceilings, free standing fireplace, and doors to deck and covered porch.

Cozy historic little cabin. Its exact age is uncertain, but has been there a long time nestled in a crook of the protected Flute Reed River watershed. The cabin is primitive and rustic but very well kept.

Stunning 2BR, 2BA home with huge deck overlooking the dock & boat-slide on the 275’ of shore. Landscaped yard on 5.96A with heated bunkhouse for extra guests.

Sauna, garage, garden sheds & outhouse.

4BR, 2BA home on 4.93A with 145’ shore.

Great views, great dock and swimming area. Full walkout lower level with plenty of storage, wine room and sauna. Border Route Trail is outside your backdoor.

MLS 6002709 $389,900

MLS 6003086 $279,000

MLS 6003288 $69,900

MLS 6003427 $399,900

MLS 6003428 $399,900

McFarland Lake

McFarland Lake

McFarland Lake

Ideal lake getaway with 1A and 166’ shore. Year-round 3BR, 2BA home with a combination solar and generator electrical system. Tons of garage storage for all your lake and snow toys!

MLS 6002203

$359,900

Iron Lake

Spacious northwoods cabin on 20A tucked away in the woods. Private 10’ lake access easement for your dock! Main level BR, open great room, vaulted ceilings, large loft and covered porch.

Rustic 2BR cabin on the waters edge!

Great big view! Screened gazebo, cool canopy of grand old cedar trees. LP appliances for the basics all you need is a whisper-quiet generator.

2BR cabin nestled in a beautiful pine forest.

1.43A with 150’ of shore. Cabin features knotty-pine woodwork, large screened-in porch and woodstove. Carry-down access means you’ll basically have the lake to yourself.

MLS 6002188 $149,900

MLS 6002622 $249,900

MLS 6002714 $149,900

Inland Lake Lots Devil Track Lake

Leo Lake

Private 2.97A lot with unique, natural boat harbor and over 245’ of frontage on north shore!

169’ shore, on 3.70A, mid trail location, with public access to other lakes nearby.

Nicely wooded lake lot on 2A and over 150’ of shore.

Tons of recreational activities nearby, including a number inland fishing lakes.

Squint Lake

Birch Lake

MLS 6002593 $94,500

MLS 6001302 $229,900

Clearwater Lake

3BR, 2BA on secluded bay. Over 900’ of shore and 32A. Sauna, insulated two car garage, small storage sheds and large open pole shed for all your boats and canoes!

MLS 6003329 $469,000 Pending

MLS 6003046 $159,900 PENDING

Sag Lake

Kemo Lake

MLS 6002374 $69,900

$149,900

One of only 4 lots on south shore. Private 2.34A with 200’ frontage on excellent trout lake!

MLS 6002735 $159,900

Poplar Lake McFarland Lake

MLS 6002626 $274,900

Convenient mid-trail location with deeded lakeshore access to Poplar Lake. Building site cleared, driveway is in and all utilities available.

MLS 6002116 $52,500 .94A with 291’ of shore. Healthy mix of huge White Pines, Cedars & Balsams; feels like your own private park. Cleared building site, electricity, phone & broadband is available.

MLS 6003028 $169,900

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Nicely wooded 2+A, excellent mid - Trail location with over 212’ of shore. Directly abuts USFS for added privacy.

Heavily wooded 1.54A, 150’ of frontage on great trout lake. Direct, year round access off the Gunflint Trail.

MLS 6002478

250’ shore with great sand beach, gentle drop off for the kids. 1.52A protected from weather and a large deck. Much potential here, just needs some elbow grease!

MLS 6002665 $134,500

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1.1A and 191’ frontage on Sag. Year round access, electric & phone. Direct access to BWCAW.

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MLS 6002373 $169,900

Tom Lake Year round, 1.10A, 171’ shore, nicely wooded, driveway and cleared building site.

MLS 6003350 $54,900

34A, 600’ shore, nicely wooded with maples, pine, cedars and incredible views.

MLS 6002412 $149,900 1.81A of stunning views with great building sites and 298’ shore.

MLS 6002257 $57,900

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Own a slice of Minnesota’s Favorite Resorts We bring you closer. To the lake, each other and your vacation property dreams.

The Bluefin Bay Family of Resorts is unmatched in its intimate proximity to Lake Superior. We offer three distinct ownership opportunities to achieve what you’ve been dreaming of for years.

• Bluefin Bay on Lake Superior: Award-winning property, Minnesota’s Favorite Resort. One, two and three bedroom condos & townhomes on Lake Superior with access to restaurants, pools, saunas, tennis court, gift shops, & full service spa.

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Surfside on Lake Superior New townhomes, total coastal luxury right on the shore of Lake Superior. 3,000 s/f, 3BR, 3BA. Quarter-share ownership w/ flexibility for personal use & rental income. Excellent family retreat or investment property. Prices from $179K-$225K, includes furnishings.

• Temperance Landing on Lake Superior: Distinctive log home luxury on ledgerock and cobblestone beach near Temperance River. 3 BR, 3BA custom log homes with access to resort amenities at Surfside.

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CATCHLIGHT

Mallard This year in Duluth, many ducks seem to be finding enough comfort with the mild winter we are having to stick around rather than going down south. Hundreds of mallards can be seen almost on a daily basis in the Canal Park area. One late January afternoon, I decided to spend some time watching the mallards as they swam around the canal. I watched as small groups of mallards came flying in to join the group and was lucky enough to catch this drake mallard as he made a landing right in front of me. It was a great way to spend the afternoon.—Matt Silverness, Silverness Photography NORTHERN  WILDS

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Visit our state-of-the-art

astronomy centre!

INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS

FACILITY RENTALS

The David Thompson Astronomical Observatory is a marvel of modern space science, and home to one of the largest telescopes in Central Canada.

Experience a Star Walk Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.

SOLAR VIEWING

ADMISSION: Adults $10, Students, Seniors & Youths $8, Children 5 and under FREE! 9:30pm to 11:30pm

9:30pm to 11:30pm

March Themes:

April Themes:

THURSDAYS: First Nations Night Sky Storytelling FRIDAYS: Tours of the Universe SATURDAYS: Workshop: Celestial Photography

THURSDAYS: Lecture: Life in the Universe FRIDAYS: Tours of the Universe SATURDAYS: Lecture: Armageddon Earth

Visit www.fwhp.ca for full program details.

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