Blog-o-rama 2016, General

Bean and Bear Lake

With our weekend plans changing to a Saturday race, we had all day Friday to do something new and fun. Our friend Wendi invited us to go along with her on a hike around the Bean and Bear Lake loop of the Superior Hiking Trail. We arrived around 1pm on Friday, and the sunny morning […]

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Blog-o-rama 2016, General

Hiking Ely’s Peak

After our day of volunteering at Voyageur’s 50 mile we picked up our new day packs and hit some trails with the goal of eating some camp dinner on top of Ely’s Peak. We started out from a parking lot near Becks Road and eventually merged with the DWP trail. Right before the tunnel under […]

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Blog-o-rama 2016, General

Gear Review: Osprey Stratos 24 pack

The wife and I are planning on doing a bit more hiking in the future, starting with a couple days of small hikes on the Superior Hiking Trail (SHT) at the end of July. Since neither of us has any decent hiking gear (beyond what we can dual purpose from running), we set out to REI […]

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