Over a week ago, we took off for Cook County in far Northeastern Minnesota. Eventually heading for the Gunflint Trail, but we first spent two nights at Judge Magney State Park (15 miles north of Grand Marais)...
It's a park we've been to before, so we didn't spend a lot of time at the park. After setting up camp on the first night, it was rest time (apparently, the naps during the drive weren't enough) in the hammocks...you might see Lex off in the distance...
After the rest, it was time to geocached...and this cache was quite a hike to find...
The card they got was a river otter...
Before dark, we took a short walk down to the bridge over the Brule river...we'd repeat this the next day and go much farther...
Then Lex got down to busy roasting marshmallows...
When she had her fill, she went into the tent to read...she had already finished the Harry Potter series once this summer, but she started it again on this trip (she's read ~5,000 pages this summer alone)...
No reading for Lukie...just sleep in the hammock...
After a busy day outside the park on day two, we took the hiking club trail up to Devil's Kettle and it passes a series of water falls along the way...
Half of the Brule river plunges into the pothole on the left and for a long time, it was unsure where the water went.
Some people hypothesized that there was a lava tube connecting this portion of the river valley with Lake Superior. But lava tubes don't form in rhyolitic lava flows, they form in basaltic lava flows (like those found in Hawaii). It's been determined that fractures in the rock allow the water to emerge somewhere in the downstream river valley or out in the lake directly...
After the hike to Devil's Kettle, it was back to reading for Lex...
I'll follow with another post or two of what we did outside this park before we left for the Gunflint Trail...
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