I hiked from the Harley Nature Center down to the Lake Superior shore on the Superior Hiking Trail. The trail cuts through the city of Duluth, but you mostly feel you're in the wilderness.
Let me just add, for a downhill trail, there sure were a lot of uphills.
The last couple miles follow the creek running down Chester Park. Water drops splashed my camera lens:
I'd had a . . . shall we say "Sicilian" e-mail exchange in the morning––the closer I come to my family, the more I like stuffed animals––
so it was great to walk it off in nature, and comforting to have the benign companionship of Seaway Black Bear.
The sign on the tree says Foot Traffic Only. Paws are feet too.
Black Bear is fearless, bungee jumping over Chester Creek waterfalls:
Let me just add, for a downhill trail, there sure were a lot of uphills.
The last couple miles follow the creek running down Chester Park. Water drops splashed my camera lens:
I'd had a . . . shall we say "Sicilian" e-mail exchange in the morning––the closer I come to my family, the more I like stuffed animals––
so it was great to walk it off in nature, and comforting to have the benign companionship of Seaway Black Bear.
The sign on the tree says Foot Traffic Only. Paws are feet too.
It was cold, but I got hot, hiking, so Bear wore my hat.
Black Bear is fearless, bungee jumping over Chester Creek waterfalls:
We all need a Fearless companion sometimes. Seaway is a beautiful bear.
ReplyDeleteCROW: Yes! To show us how to do it or to be fearless on our behalf. I don't like heights, and it made me nervous to watch Bear dangling, I can tell you!
ReplyDeleteAlways good to have a bear on one's side. Oh, I miss that glacial rock, I can smell the leaves and water, and tinge of iron in the air.
ReplyDeleteZHOEN: Oh, yes, and the smell of crushed pine too.
ReplyDeleteAlong the trail, slabs of flat, rounded stone rises out of the ground like the backs of humpback whales.
Love the bungee jumping picture!
ReplyDeleteI forgot the pine, how did I? So miss the evergreens in deep damp.
ReplyDeleteBINK: It's what you would have done!
ReplyDeleteZHOEN: You don't have deep damp, I know, but do you have evergreens out there?
So interesting- I did not know about this trail.
ReplyDeleteLAURA: We could come up and hike it together!
ReplyDeleteThere are several branches of the SHT here in the city.