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Hiking You Say??

 

As we wrap up hiking this gorgeous trail called the Superior Hiking Trail (SHT) we had two very interesting “hikes”.  One was along the Kadunce River gorge. We have rarely walked a formal trail under these conditions.  Actually, the gorge walk was parallel to the spur trail that led us up to our hike on the SHT.

Laurie is thinking to herself…..Should we really do this…..Heck yeah!
Roy found a nice dry spot to admire the photographer.
We couldn’t imagine what would happen when all that cliff side rock comes tumbling down.
Such a beautiful trail to walk up.

 

Our first attempt at using the “panorama” feature on our camera. The water must have been flowing hard to erode that cave Laurie is standing in.
Roy had finally had enough of the beautiful gorge but to get out, we had to scale this almost vertical wall of rock fragment.

The other strange hike recently was along the actual shore of Lake Superior.  Lots of really coarse sand (stones really) and many rocky outcrops.  One and a half miles of really tough but absolutely gorgeous hiking.

We found a group of hiking Boy Scouts to take our picture in front of Lake Superior.
No….this island is not actually on the trail but we are and it was only a short swim if the water was not in the 50s
Those pebbles are really hard to walk on. It was futile to try to take the pebbles out of our boots until the end of the lake walk.
The hiking poles do not help when hiking on REALLY coarse sand.
Always liked the challenge of skipping a stone into a lake.
The rock piles called “cairns” usually show a hiker the trail in poor visibility or high altitude where no trees grow for blazing. Not sure why they were needed when the trail goes along the lakeshore?
The solid rock at points along the shore of Lake Superior was much easier to walk on. Still had to be careful not to slip though.

 

 

That wrapped up our 1.5 mile lake walk on a beautiful and sunny day.

One Reply to “Hiking You Say??”

  1. I can’t make out what the rock says on the west end lake walk sign. Was it left there by you?

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