tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26053051270273864512024-02-19T00:06:49.111-06:00Great Sky of the NorthFrom tornadoes to blizzards to northern lights...we do it all.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.comBlogger756125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-25072539694385266442017-02-12T09:34:00.003-06:002017-02-12T09:38:33.119-06:00July 11 2016 Litchfield /Watkins Minnesota Tornadoes<a href="http://www.mnwxchaser.com/2016images/16july11.html" target="_blank">See the full chase account with pics and video clips HERE</a><br />
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Some days everything comes together. Some days everything comes together in your back yard.</div>
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When your target is 30 miles away from your front door, the chase day takes on a different form. I'm used to driving hours and states away in hopes of getting on the storm of the day. Today, driving on back roads I am way too familiar with, it was a cross between being at ease and being on edge knowing the communities people I know live in were going to be under a serious risk.<br />
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Tornado #1 just grazes the west side of Litchfield MN in Meeker county. I have to say the locals on the east side of Litchfield who were watching did everything right. No one was blocking roads, driving crazy, etc. Had no problem moving north to stay with the storm.<br />
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#2. Something I never like to see. A tornado going through a town I am familiar with. Watkins MN.<br />
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#3. At least I'll call it number three as this was a little west of track of the Watkins tornado. South of Rockville looking due west.<br />
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Thankfully no one was killed or injured by these. What ended up being the tornado day of the season ended up with about as good of an outcome as you can get.<br />
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With the wife in Florida visiting friends, I took the opportunity to make what would be my longest trip for a day hike every. The goal was to climb Finger Point in the Pigeon River Provincial Park. The park is about 6 hours one way from my house so I was out the door before 5am and reached Duluth about 7:30 as first light was beginning to show in the eastern sky. With the northwest winds and temps about -12F, a thick layer of fog, clouds, and sea smoke blanketed the eastern shore of Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan in the distance.<br />
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Although all of the drive along Lake Superior is interesting, my favorite area is north of Hovland. In my opinion it really gives you the feel for how rugged and for the most part, desolate, this area is.<br />
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The objective for the day. The wife and I have hiked this in the summer but I saw some winter pics on Google Earth from the lookout on the top of the hump. Border crossing was no problem but parking was a little tricky at the trail head. You park at the Canadian Tourism welcome center right when you get through customs. However it is closed in the winter and they only make one pass with the plow around the center and through what is usually an ample sized lot during the rest of the year. I tried my best to park in a way someone could get around me if needed but wasn't too worried about it as no one else was around.</div>
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The trail follows the shoreline of the lake for a while. I was surprised the bays weren't frozen over more than they were with string of -20's and -30's we have had. Just goes to show how difficult it is to get Superior to freeze. <br />
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The lower portion of the trail was pretty well packed thanks to someone who had snowshoed their way in using bear paw style shoes. Further up the trail I think they regretted it as I saw a lot of slip marks (no cleats) and butt prints from having to slide down on their rear to avoid a certain nasty fall.</div>
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Selfie as the climb to the top starts. The abruptness of the elevation change on this hike is one of the things I love about this hike. Just use caution as they are a lot of loose rocks under the snow. Poles help quite a bit as you can kind of feel your way up. I was just using my winter hiking boots at this point. I had ice spikes in my pack and my cleated snowshoes were also lashed to my pack just in case I needed them.</div>
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Looking west / southwest back to the mouth of the Pigeon River. Where I am standing is there the outlook is. The bump in front of me is where you come out at the end of the climb. There are about a dozen or so switchbacks to navigate to get to the top on that bump then you have to cross a fairly steep but short draw to get to where I am standing at.</div>
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Looking east / southeast. That is the very northeastern tip of Minnesota in the foreground and Isle Royale National Park in the back.</div>
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On the way out I stopped to gawk at the ice along the shore of Pigeon Bay. Perspective doesn't do this justice as it was 3-4 feet high and had a great blue glow but the back light killed it. <br />
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The day ends at it started. Total trail time was about 3 hours but only about 5k return. I tend to spend a lot of time looking around or dinging around with photos so if you make the hike, it will likely take you much less time. As always, if you have any questions about one of my hikes, please email me at <a href="mailto:bill@mnwxchaser.com" target="_blank">bill@mnwxchaser.com</a></div>
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This ended up being one of the most fun chases of the season. It's not often that Eric Whitehill and I get to chase together anymore so when it became apparent the Devil's Lake ND Basin would be the initiation area for storms this day, I was pretty excited to swing through Fargo and pick him up.<br />
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First storm of the day dies out north of Lakota ND<br />
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Second storm of the day near Michigan ND. This had spotter funnel reports but I highly doubt they were accurate as this thing was an outflow machine. As we sat on US 2, another storm rapidly developed to our south with a definite mesocyclone.<br />
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After taking some 2"+ stones on US 2 west of Niagara ND we dropped south as the storm turned hard to the southeast towards Northwood.<br />
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Eric and I just made it south in time to avoid the hail core at Northwood. Nick Elms and Amanda Hill stayed on the west side and came in behind to see what hail fell. <a href="https://prairiewindchasers.smugmug.com/SEVERE-STORMS/July-9-2016-North-Dakota/" target="_blank">Be sure to check out their chase account with shots of the monster stones they found.</a><br />
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Eventually everything lined out and we called off the chase at Kragnes MN and headed back over the Red River to Fargo. By far one of the most enjoyable chases of the season.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-13464780562331409832016-11-30T21:58:00.002-06:002016-11-30T22:27:19.833-06:00Sleeping Giant Provincial Park Hiking Trip 2016Sometime in late September or early October, the wife and I take a camping/hiking trip into northern Minnesota or southwestern Ontario. We usually find a quiet campground (going at this time of the year makes it pretty easy to find one) and do day trips from there.In previous years we have pretty well covered the areas south and west of Thunder Bay, Ontario and northeastern Minnesota so it was time to knock off a provincial park I have had my eye on for a couple of years: Sleeping Giant. I had heard some great things about the scenery and wildlife there. The original plan was for my daughter and myself to do a 3 day backpack trip this summer but she suffered a knee injury right out of school this year and wasn't able to make the trip so Melinda and I decided to do it as our fall trip but with the base camp plan. This year's trip covered September 28 through October 2.<br />
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Its about a 7 hour drive to the park entrance from our house. No biggie as we do day trips up to Grand Portage. A couple of words of advice:<br />
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2) Thunder Bay has three Walmart locations. DO NOT go to the one downtown near the docks. It is a dive. peopleofwalmart.com probably has a shit ton of images from this place. People there are just goofy and the store itself is a dump. Keep going up 11 towards the park and go to the one off Dawson Road. That one is normal.<br />
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Anyhow, back to the trip. No Pants Pierre. Yeah, the only weirder Pierre on earth is Pierre McGuire.<br />
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We decided to split day one so we had time to pick up supplies in Thunder Bay on day two. We stopped for the night at Judge CR Magney State Park north of Hovland, MN. We have visited this park many times over the years and highly recommend it. Spend a day or three hiking this place!<br />
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Playing around with the 11-16 superwide and a very cooperative chipmunk at our campsite. It was probably 6" off the lens. It obviously has been fed by campers in the past either deliberately or by accident. Better than a bear at least.<br />
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Stopped at the lower falls on the Brule for a couple of shots then hiked a couple of miles up above Devils Kettle before calling it and hiking back to camp via headlamp light.<br />
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We had no problem with the border crossing the next morning and after the Walmart mess, we were on our way up 11 to Pass Lake and the turn back south into Sleeping Giant. Kudos again to the Canadian border agents. They are always pleasant and very helpful.<br />
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By getting in fairly early on a Thursday, we had our choice of several premium campsites at the Lake Marie Louise. Note there are different rates depending on where your campsite is located. The sites on the water with a spectacular view are more than sites elsewhere in the campground. Don't get freaked out by the cost per night as in addition to the camping, it includes the vehicle and usage fees. With the exchange rate from US to Canada, it's like a 35% reduction also. Very reasonable in<br />
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Our campsite right on the water. The sites are really packed into the campground so if you are looking for solitude, you will not find it here. Get a back country permit and backpack or bike pack in. The first night here the wolves across Marie Louise Lake sang as we ate supper and as soon as the sun set, the northern lights made an appearance. There was a guy from Columbia MO who checked in the same time and picked a site on a point up the road from us. I talked to him the next day and he got to hear wolves for the first time and see the lights. Welcome to Canada!</div>
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The view looking due west. I was really excited for the sunsets and to get hiking the next day to the top of the Sleeping Giant. You have to admit it really does look like a man laying on his back. The legend of how this unique formation got its name is interesting. <a href="http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheSleepingGiant-Ojibwa.html" target="_blank">You can read about it by clicking here.</a></div>
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While we were setting up camp, we quickly realized there was a campground fox. You had to make sure to pick up everything as this bugger chewed up sunglasses, stole coffee cups and water bottles. Pretty much whatever it could get a hold of. It didn't matter it is was day or night either. Although we didn't see or have any bear problems, the fox kept us on our toes to keep a clean and secure campsite. Our campground neighbor from Toronto suffered some minor losses to the fox also including one of his coffee cups. It would be interesting to see all the stuff the fox has stashed over time.<br />
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Once we had camp established, we took a drive through Silver Islet and made the short hike out to see the Sea Lion rock formation. The main trail head in the park is only about 4 km from the campground entrance so you wont waste much time in a vehicle. The observation area around the Sea Lion is well fenced so if you are hiking with kids, its no big worry. Just need to use common sense and pay attention. We climbed out onto some rock outcrops past the observation area to get this view.<br />
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A couple of years ago my daughter made me a bracelet to wear on my trips when she can't go with. I decided to attach it to whichever pack I'm using and get her photos of the bracelet at the places I've hiked to. I would much prefer it if she could go with on every trip, but it just doesn't work out every time.<br />
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The next morning after breakfast and waiting for the clouds and fog to clear, I had Melinda drop me off at the trail head to make the hike and climb to the top of the giant.<br />
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She was coming off a nasty cold and didn't feel up to the hike so she opted to hang out at our campsite for the day and pick me up at dark. The round trip was about 25 kilometers. One the way up, the final 2.7 being pretty challenging plus another 1.25km or so out to The Chimney. Bring plenty or water or a filter (you can filter from Lake Superior). I figured 2 liters was plenty so I didn't bring my filter and that was a mistake. I drink a lot of water while hiking and really had to ration it out. I got back sooner than planned and hiked an additional 5km all the way to our campsite (about 18 miles total for the day). I was plenty thirsty by the time I found the first potable water source in the campground!<br />
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The hike along the Kabeyun trail is pretty uneventful from the trail head to Top of the Giant trail. It has its moments where you can get over to Lake Superior and there are a few small creeks but for the most part is it just old logging road. I would highly suggest using a fat tire or mountain bike to get to where the Top of the Giant trail starts. It's muddy and rocky in places, but not very steep. There is even a rack to secure your bike to at the trail split. Straight up, the trail does not feel very wild but once you get to the split it does.<br />
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That is where the adventure and climb really starts. The climb up the giant starts immediately when you leave the Kabeyun. Be prepared and pace yourself. The first part levels out pretty quick so don't let the first .5 km scare you off. Hiking boots are a must and I would suggest poles for on the way down just to take some the strain off your knees. The image above was taken about 1.25 km up the Top of the Giant trail. The meadow is actually a lake which self drained. The view here is awesome and really gives it a wilderness / mountain feel. See the ridge on the left of the shot? That is what you are going up next.<br />
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In the next 1.5km you will climb about 800 feet to the top of the giant. That clearing below is the meadow in the previous shot. You can also see T harbor in the background. If you are looking to bike camp or backpack camp, that is an awesome spot. Just remember to register for a backcountry site at the office first on your way in. Don't be fooled at this point. You need to keep going the additional kilometer or so to see the view to the west from The Chimney. It's totally worth it. The trail isn't as developed from here on but there was flagging which made it super easy to follow.<br />
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You will pop out of the brush and find yourself about 300 meters or 1000 feet above Lake Superior at The Chimney. Just follow the warn paths (there are several) down to the edge. There are NO safety fences etc here so if you are hiking with kids or your dog, be extremely careful as a fall means certain death.<br />
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It's always kind of surreal when I plan these hikes, look at other people's images, study Google Earth and then I am there. This hike was totally all that. The reward at the end of this one on a clear day is beyond stunning. The view will keep you there for a while.<br />
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After seeing a lot of images taken from this spot, I was happy to add one of me to my collection. I cannot say enough good things about how stunning this place is.<br />
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The view coming back down looking over T Harbor. Again, I would suggest hiking poles as some spots are really steep and it makes it a little easier on the knees. If it is warm out, bring a water filter. There is one decent stream and of course the lake you can use as water sources. <br />
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This isn't cool. As I got back to the trail head lot, I saw this family hand feeding a red fox. Habituating the animal does no good. Hope the fox doesn't end up as road kill pizza or worse yet if someone gets nipped while it tries to grab a piece of sandwich.<br />
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Since I made much better time getting back than I planned on, I decided to walk the extra 4.25 km back to camp since Melinda wasn't going to pick me up until sunset. I was very thirsty but getting to enjoy the sunset with her was worth it. View looking west from our campsite.<br />
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One our third day in the park Melinda and I did 2 short hikes. These are the falls on Joe Creek. Short hike as about 1.5 km return if you go all the way out to Lake Superior. Honestly after the falls there isn't much to see. The view of the lake isn't that great and the shore is lined with twisted up cedars.<br />
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The second short hike was the Piney Wood Hills Trail. It's 1.4 km return and ends at this rocky ledge overlooking Joeboy Lake. This is a nice walk up and down through the pines.<br />
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A trip to Sleeping Giant isn't complete without a stop at the Thunder Bay Lookout. It's pretty cool as the platform extends out away from the cliff. While not as high as the top of the giant, it gives you a pretty good idea how impressive the cliffs are in the area. Easy drive into this spot. We stopped for lunch at Rita Lake before heading back to our campsite for our final evening in the park.<br />
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Our final sunset looking at the head of the giant. The last night was interesting as we had a visit from the campground skunk while eating dinner. It couldn't have cared less about us as it checked out our campsite and at one point pretty much walked right over Melinda's feet at it went about it's business. Best part was when it went to the campsite next to us and we watched as a half dozen or so girls from the University of Minnesota climbed on top of their Suburban.<br />
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I was disappointed with the noise in the campground. Some other campers on the hill above us pretty much drank for almost 24 hours straight. Again, this is a campground and not edge of the wilderness campsites. Be prepared for stuff like this if you choose to stay at Marie Louise Lake.</div>
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We packed up pretty early on the 4th morning and started the trip home. No issues at the border this time getting back into the US. If you read some of my other blog entries, I highlighted what dicks border agents have been while coming back into the US. I get they have a job to do, but come on. Just be personable and polite. On thing I always enjoy about our Canadian trips are the people. Americans (even most Minnesotans) have forgotten how far common courtesy goes in getting along with everyone. Sad.</div>
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The inland colors and up high on the ridges really lit up over the 5 days we were out. Enough so that we ended our trip home by a couple of hours to take in the views around another area we have frequented for camping over the years. This is Ninemile Lake north of Finland MN.<br />
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Overall it was a good trip with some great scenery and some unique wildlife interactions. The wolves across the lake the first evening at Sleeping Giant was really cool. We saw no bear sign around the campground but the park staff did warn of activity in the back country. If you have a fat tire or mountain bike, I would strongly suggest using it where possible to cover more ground to see more. Especially if you are heading south down the Kabeyun towards Cape Thunder from Silver Islet. I'll likely go back again with the same plan and stay at the campground and day hike some of the other trails which go to the head and the knees of the giant. There are some sites which are somewhat more remote on the west side of Marie Louise Lake. They were closed for the season at the time we visited but I would consider them on our next visit depending on the time of the year. As always, if you have any questions about the areas I visit, feel free to drop me an email at <a href="mailto:bill@mnwxchaser.com" target="_blank">bill@mnwxchaser.com </a></div>
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Messy messy messy. Devyn Drufke and I just missed the brief Appleton MN tornado and from that point on this thing was a wind and hail machine as it never recovered from going outflow dominant on the cycle immediately after.<br />
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Darted in and out of the "notch" area for a couple of hours. It looked cool but never looked like a tornado was imminent. Bailed on it near Lake Lillian MN.<br />
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These storms looked like CRAP. Cold and outflowish from the get go.<br />
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The highlight of the day for me was on the drive home from the Little Falls area, the constant rain of small tree branches from Foley, MN to Becker, MN on MN25.<br />
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We had some storm damage to some trees a couple of nights ago of which one damaged a couple of our fences.<br />
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I raced to finish the fence repair as towers rapidly formed just to my west with one north of Cokato MN being of extra interest.<br />
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No sooner I got into the Nox and started heading towards it the severe warning went on it for hail. As I came up on the southwest flank south of Waverly, MN, it became a full-fledged supercell. Quite a few law enforcement and public funnel reports on it but I never saw anything remotely tornadic. Kept the updraft area in view until it entered the west metro. And I did get that fence finished.<br />
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It wasn't supposed to be that hard this day. Boundary+moisture+shear+trigger = easy as pie. Or not.<br />
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Tornado warned cells to the south of us but this tornado warned cell near Paynesville MN would be the saving grace for the day...maybe.<br />
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Ah, the good old fakenado south of Roscoe MN.<br />
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Started out in Wheaton MN<br />
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All kinds of crazy storm interactions and mergers as the main line took form.<br />
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This momma snapping turtle doesn't need a hail guard!<br />
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A few cells would go up in front of the line. Cool KH waves on the front huh?<br />
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End the day less than an hour from home. Nice<br />
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Actually more like Quest for the Needle missed by 20. Another low instability high shear day. Had 2 storms to choose from. Always pick the southern one because the inflow will be cleaner. Right? <br />
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BZZZZT! Nope, Spring Hill in Stearns county a mere 20 odd miles north of my storm produces and mine? Rain. Yup. Rain.<br />
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Best lighting deflector ever invented: the lightning trigger. Every time I get it out, the lightning disappears. Like magic.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-37191311699720429992016-09-03T20:56:00.003-05:002016-09-03T20:56:30.884-05:00May 28 2016 North Central Iowa - Quest for the Needle 2016 BeginsThis day was the start of many this season where the basic set up was weak instability but good directional shear.<br />
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I became a believer in the SPC's Non Supercell Tornado (NST) parameter this day as I missed the tornado further west closed to the low.<br />
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The participation award this day was a half way decent shelf cloud near Forest City, IA<br />
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Ahh, nothing like a good local hailer to make my day. Shot taken from south of Howard Lake, MN<br />
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On the south side of Buffalo, MN we found a lot of small hail drifted along MN25<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-37143899838310068262016-05-01T18:54:00.001-05:002016-05-01T18:54:05.053-05:00April 26 2016 North Central Kansas ChaseWell, that sucked. A veer, back, veer wind profile, a residual outflow boundary from the night before, CAPE gobbling splitting supercells on the OFB which all moved north, and about 1400 miles later on a down and back longest one day chase trip of my life....not much to show for it. I do regret not stopping in Waterville, KS to photograph the 4" hailstones driven into the ground. That was the highlight of the trip looking back but I never took the camera out. Bummer.<br />
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The weather pattern is going to be tough for chasing going into mid May with the only exception being a cold front around the 7th or 8th but the dynamics will not be in place for severe weather up here. I feel bad for the tour operators as they will be working hard to keep their supercell hungry guests entertained.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-21747030095936945612016-01-03T21:43:00.001-06:002016-01-03T21:43:48.716-06:00In To 2016!! First day hike of the new year and some catch up imagesMelinda and I decided to start off the new year with a day hike in Tettegouche State Park north of Silver Bay Minnesota to do something a little different. After purchasing a new house (one of our horses has already lived here for a year and half), getting settled, hosting the family Christmas, plus just the normal day to day chaos, it was time for a break again. <br />
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Our horses having a pre-dinner snack. I was trying to bribe one of them out further into the pasture for a silhouette shot but ended up with all 4 in group.<br />
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A fresh supply of lead-free raccoon and deer carcasses keep the bald eagle and other smaller birds well fed on the pond behind our house. I get tired of getting calls from TRC and the DNR to pick up eagles which got hit by a car while feeding on road kill. Back here the only threat is me taking a blurry photo from our deck.<br />
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The winter song birds have not been as plentiful as I had hoped. We added a couple of suet feeders and a black oil sunflower feeder in hopes of attracting more. We'll see.<br />
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Charlie, our main outside cat. He is actually yawning in this photo. He loves people. Hates dogs and other cats. Our dog is actually scared of him.<br />
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Crow landing fail on our pond by the carcass feeder.<br />
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Eagle butt print.<br />
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The deer are doing well. We have a doe with triplets and another doe with twins which frequent our place. Kind of a weird shot here with one deer facing me with the other looking away but the illusion of there only being 4 legs messes with your head.<br />
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My daughter shovels off a skating rink behind our home.<br />
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Back to the New Years Day hike. The Silver Creek Cliff tunnel has always been our "gateway". Once we hit this point, the fun starts. After a later than planned start, the blue ice covering the cliff was a very welcome sight.<br />
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July 31st 2015. Melinda and I decided to go a short summer hike just to see if we could spot any deer in a known hot spot. The vegetation was thick and bugs were even thicker.<br />
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Not many couples would consider "date night" wading around in near chest high burning weed just to get a shot of this. But "why be normal?"</div>
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I knew this buck was going to be a monster come November.</div>
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Fast forward to November 8 2015. Found him!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-23001356538815472472015-11-18T20:10:00.001-06:002015-11-18T20:55:41.054-06:00September 5 2015 Hiking at Mink Mountain, Kakabecca Falls & Finger Point Ontario Canada<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUKhyZJJZJc" width="853"></iframe><br />
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My brother and sister in law offered for us to join them in Grand Marais, MN for the Labor Day weekend. The catch was they wouldn't be able to drive over from Deer River until late Saturday so Melinda and I would have to head up on Friday night to secure the cabin they had rented. That meant we would have pretty much all day Saturday to do whatever we wanted. Being not much for hanging out in Grand Marais (too many $300 pairs of boots walking aroud which will never see a dirt path), we scrambled to throw together a series of relatively short day hikes on the Canadian side of the Pigeon River. A quick YouTube search and a message from Travis Novitsky and out plans fell into place. We would hit the Mink Mountain trail system Saturday morning and Finger Point on the way back to Minnesota in the afternoon to meet up with Addie and Jeff. Note I made no mention of Kekebecca Falls yet.<br />
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Waiting in line to clear customs into Canada. I'm not going to lie. The Canadian border agents are very friendly. The US border agents are jerks. Coming back into to the US and feeling anything but welcomed back your own country is really sad.<br />
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Finally at the Mink Mountain trail head. It was hot this day (by my standards for hiking) as it as in the middle to upper 70's.</div>
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We decided since the Mink hike didn't take as much time as we thought it would (only about 3 miles round trip) we would run up to Thunder Bay then west to Kakabeca Falls Provincial Park. This place is beautiful but very well developed with easy trails but too much development for me.<br />
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Probably the best view of the falls from the south side. Supposedly the falls are 131ft tall.<br />
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After heading back south towards the states, we stopped to hike Finger Point at sunset. On the left side of the image you can see where the Pigeon River enters Lake Superior.<br />
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At the end of the trail is a very cool bench in the shape of Lake Superior with iron work art around it.<br />
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The views are spectacular. Be forewarned this trail has a steep climb at the end with a lot of loose rocks. Good hiking boots and poles are a good idea.<br />
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The land in the distance is the far eastern tip of Minnesota.<br />
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We hung around to watch the sun start to set but knowing we had about 1.75 miles back to our car on the rough trail, we thought it would be a good idea not cut it too close. Besides, we were hot and food was a priority so off we went. A simply spectacular day filled with many memory inspiring sights! If you are thinking about doing any of these hike and would like some tips or more info, feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:bill@mnwxchaser.com">bill@mnwxchaser.com</a></div>
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Look at all the mosquitoes on the side of his face! Unreal.<br />
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This buck is in a semi-safe area and I doubt he would be hunted unless he moves out of the area. I hope he is around during the rut as there will be some awesome photo ops I'm sure come November!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-90470964189521818642015-07-19T14:36:00.000-05:002015-07-19T14:36:02.570-05:00July 17 2015 Northeast South Dakota Chase4 hours late out the door on Friday and still had a fun chase day. Just a reminder to the noobs and some of the self-proclaimed veteran chasers, please be courteous on the roads. If you are going to deck out your vehicle so everyone knows you are a professional chaser or chase team, don't drive like a douche. Please.<br />
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Seems tornado ops have outnumbered good night time lightning ops about oh, 21 to ZERO over the past year so my family gave me a lightning trigger for Father's Day this year. It's nothing fancy and not the top of the line, but it works. Kind of. This thing is like hyper light sensitive. In one instance with the sensitivity turned all the way down, I could drape my t-shirt over the sensor and it would still trigger the shutter. I dunno. Maybe the one I have is flawed or maybe it is mean to use at night or at least post-sunset dusk. If you have run into this problem, please email me at bill@mnwxchaser.com with any ideas or tell me what I am doing wrong. Below is the only successful capture I have from this thing out of probably 50 opportunities where it failed to capture the strike or I couldn't get it to not trigger as soon as I armed it. It's an Opteka LTX-80. The photo below is an image from the manufacturer.<br />
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This was the only successful capture using the lightning trigger during "daylight". It was pretty dark as this storm approached our home from the north. <br />
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On to the storms!<br />
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Hard to compete with the June 27th chase day up in Canada, but there aren't many storms I won't at least try to find something which looks cool or at least the light gives me something to work with.<br />
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June 29th over by Hinckley, MN in the trees. Another south moving trough coming out of Canada. Big dew point depressions meant little to no tornado chances this day but a little cell just southwest of town did condense a brief and non-rotating wall cloud. The big story of the day would be all the hailers which moved across the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area during the late afternoon and evening hours with some isolated spots getting nailed with egg sized stones.<br />
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This past Sunday, July 5th had a cold front crashing into western Minnesota during peak heating. Well, OK, it didn't exactly crash. In fact it stalled out. I had to drop my daughter off at camp north of Brainerd in the early afternoon but all the CAMS broke out isolated storms bring the mid to late afternoon so I brought my gear along with the idea of making an intercept on the way home. Bad idea. Reason #1: Holiday weekend traffic. I knew it was going to be bad heading back south but to see it back up for 18 miles from Royalton to the north of Little Falls to the 10/371 split was ridiculous. So the wife and I drove a back roads arc home again. Reason #2: The CAMS were wrong. They were ALL wrong. No storms went up in central MN. It was pretty evident the CF would fire late but I was still questioning on how good the storms would be with the weak forcing and anemic flow aloft. Once the storms did go, there were some supercell structures early on but everything struggled to maintain intensity. I opted for dinner at home and a nap until the weather radio woke me up for a blue box. Another try for the lightning trigger at least? I took it with but it never made it out of the gear bag.<br />
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I wandered over by Spicer, MN and tried to set up between a cell to my southwest and another to my northwest. I usually have pretty good luck with CG's and some nice CC's going back and forth.<br />
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This ended up being pretty lame for the most part. I really enjoy being outside of the vehicle to shoot lightning but the mosquitoes chased me back in pretty quick as the intervalometer did the work.<br />
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Weird twisty CG. Heavily cropped. I think I was shooting 10s exposures at f5.6 ISO 200 for these.<br />
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Got bored as the stratoform rain shield filled in out in front of the cells pretty much killing my desire to get wet and bug bitten so called it a night. I should have set up the cam at home as there were some cool CG's but not enough to make me stand out there. Oh yeah, the lightning trigger...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-74785674848372123042015-07-03T20:24:00.002-05:002015-07-03T20:27:29.531-05:00June 27th 2015 North Dakota Tornado Outbreak19 confirmed tornadoes. Hell of a chase day which started at Walhalla, ND on the Canadian border waiting for the first storm to drop south to the US side and ending up in the RFD blast of the final tornado of the day in the far southeastern corner of the state near Fairmount, ND. I saw 7 of them ranging from landspout-ish to start with to a large, but weak, stove pipe. Pretty much 8 hours of action! The Adams, ND was by far the most photogenic of the bunch. The strongest was the low visibility Holmes / Hatton EF2.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-4077839134901639782015-06-20T07:10:00.001-05:002015-06-20T07:13:46.613-05:00June 17 2015 Chase in South DakotaThis was not a planned chase per se. My Daughter and I we on our way back from the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming and made a side trek so she could see Mt Rushmore. So why not?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-6291675436422921492015-06-08T21:39:00.004-05:002015-06-08T21:39:49.693-05:00June 7th Central Minnesota Backyard LightningGot a nice little surprise as not all the cells died off at sunset in the northwest flow. A pretty little storm with a lot of CC and an occasion CG passed over the lake behind our house. <a href="http://www.mnwxchaser.com/2015images/150607/15june07.html" target="_blank">All the images can be seen HERE!</a><br />
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We all know how this ends. The curse continues! <a href="http://www.mnwxchaser.com/2015images/160606/15june06.html" target="_blank">See the full set of images HERE!</a><br />
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Yup, this show was over before it even started!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211130542755896513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605305127027386451.post-50640230730312231582015-05-31T19:13:00.001-05:002015-05-31T19:13:33.759-05:00May 17 2015 Central Minnesota StormsWhat was supposed to be THE DAY off this system ended up being crap. No directional shear and weak capping lead to some pretty pathetic storms. You can see all the <a href="http://www.mnwxchaser.com/2015images/150517/15may17.html">images from this day HERE</a>.<br />
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