Grand Marais Harbor

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The week ended with a beautiful sunrise caused by rising sea smoke and below zero temperatures over Lake Superior.

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Ice Bridge 001

This week Travis Novitsky, a friend and local photographer from Grand Portage, e-mailed to tell me that the onshore winds were piling the ice up east of Grand Marais. The waves were eroding the piles of ice and turning them into beautiful arches.

IceBridge

Ice Bridge Collapse 001

The next morning I headed up there and happened to meet Travis at the mouth of the Kadunce River close to where most of the ice arches were located. We started to photograph one of the largest arches just as the sun rose on the horizon. It didn’t take long for the sun’s warm rays to affect the arch. We heard a loud cracking sound and the ice arch collapsed right in front of us sending fairly large waves into the ice on which we were standing.

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Travis Photographing the Sawtooth Mountains

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