Snow Adventure [Part 3]

As the snow melts and spring comes to the Twin Ports, I must complete my snow adventure series! Below are the first two parts. For the next five days I will be concluding my Winter segments since Spring officially starts on the 20th! I have lined up a quick sledding adventure along with some snow pictures, but come the 20th I will be migrating from Winter related photography and adventures to Spring and Summer.

Snow Adventure Part 1
Snow Adventure Part 2

There's also a good chance that winter may be extended for us, as we have had below freezing weather as late as June 12th before! Given the forcase, however, it appears to me that Spring is just around the corner!

Snow Adventure Part 3

I ended part 2 just before we decided to shake the trees on prupose in order to get the snow falling from the tree effect. This worked like a charm! It was pretty stunning being able to capture this happen. The picture above was taken by @honeybadger-1 with my Nikon as I shook the tree. I adjusted the settings for him and hoped for the best. It was great!

Once the snow was done falling off the tree, @logicluke said that we missed the best shot. While we were busy focusing on capturing the snow falling from the top of the tree, he watched the snow fall on me and said that was something we needed to get on camera. It's good to have more than one set of eyes! I was immediately sold on the idea and we looked for another good tree so we can try again.

The Snow Keeps Falling on My Head

I chose two trees and hit them back to back. It worked out extremely well. I've put together this gif for you so you can see it in action, followed by a few of my favorites! I love how the snow covers me completely, and there's a sweet one that makes for an excellent portrait photo! I got a few of @honeybadger-1 also, but I'll leave that for him to share so I will hold off and give him the pictures and gif!

As the Day Came to an End

Once we were done shaking trees we took off and dropped @honeybadger-1 at his house since it was on the way, but @logicluke and I continued on to the Mouth of the Amnicon River and then Wisconsin Point. (Two of many favorite locations we like to frequent). There really wasn't much to see there since we didn't want to cross the frozen river and it hadn't changed much from the last time I was there, but here's a shadow selfie and some landscape photo's!

The foot prints aren't quite all mine, there were other people that had been out there earlier. Where I stand, there is normally at minimum 4-5 foot deep water, so I'm most certainly standing on the frozen lake superior! The hills of ice and snow that form are incredible and makes it look like a frozen plain instead of a lake!

Our stay here was short and we headed to Wisconsin point for some pictures of the light house, the pier, and some pictures of the sun. This is also the spot where I took the Power Up picture at the end of this post!

The Superior Entry is the only natural opening through the longest fresh water sand bar in the world. Sand deposits from the lake and the rivers created the bar forming the harbor about 3000 years ago.
The Entry, as first charted in 1861, was 1500 feet wide and 4-16 feet deep. The U.S. Corps of Engineers completed the present 1500 to 2000 foot long concrete piers in 1909 and now maintains a channel 500 feet wide and 32 feet deep. Currents in the channel sometimes reach speeds of more than 3 mph.
The first ore shipped from the mighty Mesabi Iron Range passed through the Entry in 1893. Today the Entry serves one of the busiest ports in the United States, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and handles cargoes of iron ore, coal, petroleum and grain destined for ports throughout the world.

Here's a picture of the ski hill, as shown in part 1 from a distance of 29 miles away. Much closer with the City of Superior between me and the hill!

This concludes my Day Long Snow Adventure! It took my a lot longer than expected to get it done due to real life obstacles, but I certainly feel good that I followed through and finished it! I still plan on sharing a day out sledding with the kids followed by my first and second rockhounding days of the year! I hope that winter is over, but I certainly enjoyed it this year! Here's some Golden Hour photography to conclude the day!

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