On our hike, today, looking towards Lutsen and Lake Superior.
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Fair-Weather Hiking
Today we were fair-weather hikers. When there was a pause in the rain, we took to the trail.
Blue Daubs
Blue daubs guided us, as they do every year around this time. Superior Hiking Trail near Lutsen.
Superior Hiking Trail 2019
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Loading the Garmin
Loaded maps into my Garmin. We’ve planned a bunch of hikes in the coming weeks.
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
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Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Visited the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, across the river from our home. It specializes in fluid dynamics of air, water, etc. Its lower levels are carved out of rock, allowing experiments to take advantage of the difference in height of the Mississippi.
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. Across the Mississippi from our home, we can see the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. This week we got a chance to peek inside. The building, pictured at the top of this post, was funded by the WPA (Works Progress Administration), a Federal New Deal program to put people…… Continue reading St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
A Quiet Place
Cycled past this modest building. It houses one of the quietest places on Earth, an anechoic chamber. Notable recordings when it was a studio include: the first digitally mastered album (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on 3M equipment) and parts of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks.
Traces of Ox Cart Trail
Met a friend at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis. Tried to trace the route of the Red River Ox Cart Trail ending, here, at Lambert’s Landing in St. Paul. Until the railroads took over in the 1870’s, this was one of the busiest steamboat landings in the country.