Family outting off the homestead! We road the alpine coaster at Spirit Mountain and it was super fun
Family outting off the homestead! We road the alpine coaster at Spirit Mountain and it was super fun! It goes up to 26mph (you control the speed with hand breaks) and zips through the trees and overlooks Lake Superior. This is the ski hill that in recent years have expanded to summer activities with their “Adenture Park”, including adding really sweet downhill bike trails. We had dinner at Clyde Iron Works. It was out first time there and REALLY good. A number of local places we once enjoyed have been overpriced letdowns in recent years, but we’ll defnitely go back there. Finally a stop at Lester Park. We went to the old swimming hole I used to bike two miles to all summer as a kid. It’s been called “Keep Smiling” since before I was born and attempts to cover it’s namesake grafitti always prove futile. We’ve had a lot of rain this summer so the falls looked like they do during spring melt. Some summers this section slows to a trickle. The basin warms up and makes it nicer to swim in then Lake Superior (which stays cold all summer and is where it empties into) but the water flows through enough that it doesn’t get gross, either. Watch out for snapping turtles downstream. July 23, 2017 -- source link
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