Over the past 17 days, I’ve canoed about 250 or so miles from Crane Lake to Lake Superior via the Border Route in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. I joined Amy and Dave Freeman of Wilderness Classroom. They been…
The Minnesota northern lights were out tonight, so we drove up the Gunflint looking for a good location to view them. It turned out that Northern Lights Lake provided the best view. We watched them dance above our heads for…
This small creek near Cutface Creek rarely runs in the summer, so if you want to photograph it, you must get there in the spring. This is the biggest waterfall on the creek. It’s about 8 feet high. The USGS…
The supermoon of March 19, 2011 appeared large in the night sky behind the Grand Marais lighthouse on Lake Superior. The moon was in lunar perigee and appeared larger than it had in over 30 years. It was sweet!
Northern Lights over Northern Lights Lake, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. On March 10, 2011, a coronal mass ejection hit Earth and sparked northern lights that reached as far south as Madison, Wis. Here’s the northern lights dance over Northern…
Calm, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. Compass and Navigation Skill Workshop Min: 4 Max: 20 Price: $10 Date: Monday, November 8th Time: 6:30 – 8:00 Location: Cook County Community Education Don’t get lost in the woods. When you learn navigation,…
Nusfjord Norway Pano, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. Stitched Panorama of 17 images shot from a hand-held Canon G9. I used Autopano Pro with just a little tweaking the control points to fix a broken waterline on the fjord’s inlet.…
Learn to photograph at night. Join photographer Bryan Hansel, www.bryanhansel.com, for a night of shooting in the dark. After a 45 minute slideshow/discussion, we’ll head to the Coast Guard parking lot and photograph Grand Marais as and after the sun…
With Lake Superior solid, it’s been so-so to walk along the shore on the ice. Taking advantage of the frozen lake, I wandered down to the Lutsen sea caves and crawled back into one of the ice caves just at…
Johnson Falls flow into Pine Lake. This is a short trip into the BWCA, but could be accomplished during a longer day trip. Very worthwhile! And I thought the falls at the Stairway Portage were the best in the BWCA.…