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Ojibwa Forest Rally 2008 August 23


Bemidji - The Starting Point

Travis Pastrana



With the boys.

Travis with the big kid.

Cowboy Kenny

Hayden getting a new shirt!!!

Ken Block #43

Jeff getting Ken's autograph.

Jody and Jan Zedril

Racers from Winnipeg.

Driver Jan with the Hoffarths.

Co-Driver Jody


Park Rapids Pit Stop

Lots of support for the Subaru/DC Team

Zedrils Car. Notice the back window. It was broken

by the antenna whipping off a tree.

Got to check the fluids.

Strawberry Mountain Road

Reese has a great seat!


No stopping at this sign.


Lots of dust.

Bad Bird!

All summer something(s) has been leaving nasty
stuff on my dock and deck. I finally caught sight of it.

Roy Lake Bass

Caught this Bass off of the Dock on August 20th.

July 25 Langdon Trip

We took a trip to Langdon on July 25th.

Geocaching at Rock Lake

Hayden and Ed at Rock Lake after finding a geocach

Playing in a nearby park.

Langdon Pool

Fun in the sun.

Joe Cool

Hayden on a bike that he won.

The Horns

Itasca State Park

The Horn's came out to the lake for a visit

and we made a trip to Itasca State Park to

check out the Headwaters.

The Headwaters of the Mississippi.

Walking towards the Gulf of Mexico.

Smile.


Jo watching our progress.

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.