Last weeks storm had the power to change the landscape along the entire North Shore. This week it was hard to pick a “Photo of the Week”. From Duluth to Grand Marais ice is piled up in every imaginable shape. We have miles of blue ice shards, huge mountains of crushed ice and arches formed where those mounds of crushed ice got washed out.

Some of those aches like the one attached aren’t as accessible so not as many people get a chance to see them. I was skiing this week with my niece Lisa Jordan and her husband Pat. We found this arch on the shore of Cascade River State Park. It is one of the more beautiful ice arches that I have encountered.

With the warm temperatures it might have already collapsed. Many of the piles of crushed ice at Gooseberry collapsed in the last two days. It was like a miniature Glacial Bay, Alaska. Ice was calving off forming little icebergs that were floating in the bay all weekend.