Two weeks at the lake.

We spent two weeks (June 27th to July 13th) at the lake in July. Jo's sister and family came out to visit a few days.


Ed, Reese and Hayden near the Headwaters of the Mississippi.


Time for a swim.





The boys crossing the Mighty Miss.




Hayden



Me at the Helm on the 4th.




The Hoffarths.






Goof Off!




Halda's Dock



Boat Parade.



I will have to fix the sideways photos later.

Memorial Day Weekend.

Went to the lake for the weekend. Mowed the yard and planted some grass. Managed to get some caching done on Saturday when we made a trip into Bemidji.

Fire Tower at IC Smokey.


A Porcupine on a way to the second stage of don't let your guard down.


A Scarlet Tanager on the way to Don't let your guard down.



Don't let your guard down got taken down by a bear.


Bite marks like the bears left on my humming bird feeders a couple of years ago.


Fargnots card with bite marks.


While I was putting the cache back together and signing the log there was a loud noise coming from behind a nearby hill. I made a bit of noise and decided that it was time to head back to the truck.

We made our way to Bemidji to pick up some grass seed and find a cache.

A cache in Bemidji

Minnesota State Parks History Challenge

Was at Roy Lake opening up the cabin for the season. It was also the kick off of the Minnesota State parks History Challenge. As soon as the challenge cords were posted we headed off to Itasca State Park. What I thought would be a nice short park visit turned into a 3+ hour 5 stage geocache adventure.


Itasca is my favorite park and I never get tired of seeing the sites. This cache brings you to many interesting areas of the park. Notyet did a great job on this cache. I was surprised (and happy) to get the first to find in this popular park.


After this adventure we headed to Bemidji to get some plumbing supplies. Of course we managed to do some caching on the way. We also looked at some docks.


Ended up being a long (but fun) day.


Jo at Stage 1


That's a big loon!! (found it between stage 1 and 2) This would make an interesting cache container.


Jo's looking for something!



Self Portrait at 100 feet!


Benchmark near the fire tower.


My take on those Minnesota Lottery helping wildlife TV commercials.




First to Find!!

May Day Ice Out.

I've received news that the ice is out at Roy Lake. It went out on May 1. The earliest that I've seen is on April 15 and the latest would be the the first couple of weeks in May.

Here are some Minnesota Ice Links:

MN DNR:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html

Minnesota Climatology Working Group (DNR):

http://climate.umn.edu/doc/ice_out/ice_out_status_08.htm

Geocache Logo

I have been working on a geocaching logo to use on my card.

Here are the prototypes

Slacking on the posts!

I've been slacking on posting to my blog the past few months. So today I tried to catch up. It's been a busy few months and I'm getting ready for lake season. Jo and I went over to the lake cabin a while back. Most of the snow was gone. The next day they got 18 inches. A couple of weeks ago they got another 12 inches. So far in April the area around the lake has received about 42-50 inches of snow! A record for April. They have been talking about snow this weekend. I'm ready for summer!!!!!

In front of the Mahnomen County Courthouse after finding a cache in the front bushes.

Roy Lake in Early April.

Down at the dock.

Darn woodpeckers have been at it again!

Down by the old lodge site. The foundations are the original cabins that were there in the 1930's.

Down by the old lodge site. Must be adding a couple of guest cabins.

Down by the old lodge site.

Bismarck Trip

Jo and I went to Bismarck on April 18th to watch Hayden race in the 2008 Swamp Fox Harescramble (http://www.ndracing.com/). This is his first race of the year and he raced against 4 other riders. He rode a good race and finished in first place!!!!


Hayden getting his gear on by his KTM.

Reese had to wear his gear too!

Jo on the sidelines.

The race is about to start!

After the race with Uncle Jeff.

Reese got a ride from Uncle Jeff.

The Winner of His Class!!!!!


Watch Hayden climb the sand hill.

Hayden after the race and all cleaned up.

Reese having a good time.

Hayden's Alien he picked up at Space Aliens after the race.

We also visited with Rick, Lynnette, and family. We Watched Alexis play soccer in Mandan.


We also did some geocaching on the trip and we managed to pick up 25 more caches during the trip.

A nice hide.

A cleaver Container.

Trying to open a Nano Cache.

Did you know that Jo was such a swinger!!!!
(Near a cache site)

Langdon Trip

Jo and I headed up to Langdon for Jakobs 9th birthday.





Age 9 (the number 27 on the cake is his racing number)




Jakob playing a song for us.



Marcus




Reese holding is new cousin




Jakob holding Maggie




Hayden at his tree house




Reese with his hockey stick



Hayden




Reese holding Maggie