Outdoors Posts

Time Inc. looking for ATV riders

Sep 18, 2015 2 Comments

Time is looking for local ATV riders for a video they are shooting soon.

A production team will be in Minnesota to film a short 2-3 minute video for a series that we produce quarterly. This particular shoot will feature an SUV and up to 6 subjects on an off-road trail in Gilbert. Shoot days are October 1st and 2nd.

The subjects we’re looking for are ATV enthusiasts, with their own ATVs, who are rugged, athletic, between 35 and 50, and local to the Gilbert area.

Participants will be expected to ride their ATV on a closed off-road course and then enjoy a ride in our Expedition on the same or similar course on video.

Time Inc. will compensate each applicable participant featured in the video $150 for their time during the two day shoot.

If interested, please email me at [email protected] for more details.

Please include a recent photo of yourself, and one of your ATV, full name, height and address.

This offer is on a first-come basis so please reply soon and feel free to share this offer.


Outdoors, Sports

Puppy Love: East End Dog Park folks need fence help

Sep 16, 2015 No Comments

Dog Park at Riley RoadMy dog Nero pleads with you! The Duluth City Council approved the East End Dog Park for Riley Road, and the buyers of Morgan Park Middle School have offered up the chain-link fencing. We just need muscles and some tools to help get that fencing down.

Info can be found at duluthdogparks.com. If you have a few hours and a love of puppies, show up Friday, Sept. 18, and/or Saturday, Sept. 19, both days starting at 9 a.m. Come when you can and stay as long as you are able.

Items needed: People, ladders, socket sets/ratchets, work gloves, people, bolt cutters, crescent wrenches and people!


News and Current Affairs, Outdoors

Duluth Bombardier Hat

Sep 15, 2015 2 Comments

Does anyone know where I can purchase a local bombardier-style winter hat, perhaps leather exterior but not a fur interior? I have not been able to find one myself. Thanks in advance.


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Something for a rainy day

Sep 13, 2015 No Comments

I’d heard about Rainworks quite a while ago and filed it away in my mind as something awesome that I’d never be lucky enough to see. And then they had a Kickstarter. I’ve already made my pledge, in the hopes that they reach their goal and I can put up some rain activated artwork in my neighborhood but I think the Twin Ports would be a great candidate for lots of this … something to make us look forward to rainy days instead of dread them. However, there are only seven days left in their Kickstarter and there is a ways for them to go!

Teachers and parents, think of the potential for you! Anyone really. If enough of us got this set up, you could have rainy day scavenger hunts all over Duluth or Superior.

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.”


Art, Outdoors

New 360° Video – Minnesota in 360

Sep 11, 2015 2 Comments

First 30 seconds is from the North Shore. Click and drag to pan the video line-of-sight.


Outdoors, Videos

Lutsen New Gondola

Sep 09, 2015 No Comments

Lutsen Gondoloa

Lutsen Ski Resort began erecting a new $7-million gondola on June 23. It should be operational by the 2015-16 ski season. Above you can see they are sticking with the iconic red for the new eight-passenger gondola, which will speed up the gondola lines.


News and Current Affairs, Outdoors

Video Archive: Paul Hlina on the Superior Hiking Trail in 1995

Sep 06, 2015 2 Comments

With a fused spine and partially paralyzed legs, Paul Hlina hiked the entire Superior Hiking Trail on crutches in 1995. He is credited as the first person to through-hike the trail, which at the time spanned almost 200 miles. It’s about a 300-mile trail today.


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Woods by College of St. Scholastica

Sep 03, 2015 4 Comments
Woods by CSS with xylophone bridge

Woods by CSS with xylophone bridge

Does anyone know of a map to these woods — the one with the chimney from an old cabin, an empty grotto and a super-sized Jesus statue?

Does the place even have a name? My tickling of the Google has not been fruitful.


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More Underwater Dog Footage

Aug 31, 2015 1 Comment

Mocha the dog and her owner Chris of Duluth.


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2016 Minnesota DNR Trout and Salmon Stamp

Aug 31, 2015 No Comments

2016 Trout and Salmon Stamp Competition. First Place: Dean Kegler

Duluth artist Dean Kegler won the 2016 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources trout and salmon stamp contest with this painting of a brown trout. His artwork was previously featured on the 2009 pheasant stamp.

The trout and salmon stamp validation is sold for $10 along with fishing licenses and is required for Minnesota residents age 18 to 64 and non-residents older than age 18 and under age 65 to fish designated trout streams, trout lakes and Lake Superior, and when in possession of trout or salmon.


Art, Outdoors

Cute Lil’ Cave

Aug 30, 2015 4 Comments

Just a cute lil’ cave.


Outdoors, Videos

Freediving the Harbor Buoy (Slomo version)

Aug 30, 2015 No Comments

This slomo version is a composite of already released raw footage. I made three 30-second dives at the buoy. I am bad at estimating depth and I don’t have a depth gauge. I just wanted to reach a confirmed 30 feet, and diving the buoy was a way to do that since its depth is known. Maybe next year I will hang out down there a little longer since I can stay under a minute. But I was freaked out; although small potatoes in proper freediving circles, it represented a personal best and I wasn’t sure how difficult it would be. I also wasn’t sure what I’d find down there or what the visibility would be, so I approached it with trepidation. Visibility was decent but not great, so I remained wary of a small fear of being startled by fish emerging from the gloom. There had also recently been a prominent death in the freediving world. So to get psyched, that morning I read the comic-book version of H.P. Lovecraft’s horror story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” about a man who (spoiler alert) discovers he is part of a lineage of half-human, half-fish monsters (found in “The Lovecraft Anthology vol. 1” edited by Dan Lockwood, published 2012 by SelfMadeHero.) As usual if I die, my brother is instructed to recover the camera and post the footage to PDD immediately.


Outdoors, Videos

Where to have a bonfire in the Duluth area

Aug 27, 2015 6 Comments

If a family wanted to have an outdoor memorial service that included a bonfire somewhere in the Cloquet-Duluth-North Shore region, where might they go?


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Underwater Dog Footage

Aug 27, 2015 No Comments

Jasmine the dog, walked by lifetime Duluthian Jerry.


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Duluth Sunset from Park Point

Aug 26, 2015 No Comments

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