Erik and I left Monday morning for our vacation. We were ready to go. We said we were going to leave by 10am and were out the door not long after 9am. We had a few stops to make on our way. The first was to get another card for my camera (glad I did too). The second stop was the half-way stop at Tobies. We picked up some wildrice, onion, cheese bread and caramel rolls - both delicious!
Then we headed up to Jay Cooke State Park, a little bit south of Duluth. We brought snowshoes and 'shoed one of the trails before checking in for the camper cabin we reserved for the night. The first trail we took was right along (sometimes on) the St. Louis River, named for the nearby town, Carlton.
The river is beneath the snow, we could hear it, but could only see it in small sections.
We headed over to our cabin after the Carlton trail and got ourselves settled. The cabin was very nice. It had bunks, one full and three twin beds, a table with benches, and a lovely thing... heat.
We headed out again to snowshoe the Ogantz Trail, which had a beautiful overlook.
Below is the camper cabin we stayed in. We checked out other cabins that we'd like the location better. This one was sort of out in the open and there was another one that was tucked back in the woods. Of course you can't tell this on a map when you are looking at which one to stay in.
Erik made us dinner - a cache lake meal - chicken stew and the bread from Tobies. Most of the cache lake meals we've had are pretty good. The one we had this time was a bit salty, but we added curry powder and that helped.
We were both worn out and fell asleep quickly after reading a bit, but the heat was a little hard to regulate, or our sleeping bags were so good that I woke up very warm in the night and had to turn down the heat.
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