Boundary Waters

Spent four days in the Boundary Waters with the Broady's. Drove up Thursday night and stayed at the Super 8 in Grand Marias, then after eating the world's best donuts canoed in on Ram Lake a few miles up the Gunflint Trail. More pictures.

Tubing pictures

Yay, Chris posted the rest of the pictures from boating last month: gallery.shadoweyes.com

Superior Hiking Trail

Went on a four day backpack trip on the Superior Hiking Trail with Maria and another couple. We hiked from Oberg Mountain past Temperance River State Park to Cook County Road 1.

Big Woods

Went camping with some friends at Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, near Faribault, over the weekend. Went for a nice hike in the woods and ate lots of delicious food, yum yum.

Again with the Boating + Chris = sweet pictures

Maria logging some airtime on the St. Croix

Devil's Lake Climbing

Maria and I spent the three day weekend climbing and camping at Devil's Lake State Park, the most popular climbing area in the midwest.
Queen's Throne, an easy 5.5 route on the West bluff.
Brinton's Crack, a nice 5.6 on the East Bluff. From the same anchor we were also able to climb a fun 5.9+ just to the right of the crack that both of us completed. At ~70 feet our tallest climb yet. Not the easiest to set up.
Orgasm, a 5.8 on the East Bluff. Easy to set up, we both completed it. A fun move coming out from under the overhang.
More pictures here

tube-o-licious

I hauled the boat up to Leech Lake for the weekend for some boating with the Mitchells. It was very windy out on the lake, but we found a protected bay that was great for tubing and wakeboarding. As usual Chris took some amazing pictures, which he'll post after processing them.