I am waaay overdue on this but I thought I’d just wrap the trip up for you:
First things first. Itasca was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Not only did I learn a ton without realizing it (my professor has a way of simply exuding information when you’re in his presence [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘itasca’
25 February 2008
wrap-up (I miss Itasca)
27 January 2008
catch-up
sorry it’s been so long. this week was crazy – freezing cold temperatures over the weekend and into the beginning of the week; 2 days of intense auguring to get all 19 lakes re-tested after the cold snap (there was about a 5 cm increase in ice thickness during the weekend’s -40 degree Fahrenheit weekend), [...]
17 January 2008
northern lights
a couple of us decided to try to see the northern lights on monday evening. we went out between 12:30 and 1:30 am, but didn’t get much of a show. hopefully they’ll get better as the nights get colder. i got good pictures of the stars, though, and caught some of the [...]
15 January 2008
more pictures
this weekend was crazy. our group worked all weekend to drill holes in 19 different lakes over 3 days. although we got faster by the end, it still took most of the daylight hours each day. we now have a good base of data to start our paper – just in time [...]
9 January 2008
beavers and ice
Yesterday we continued our search for beaver lodges and had quite the exciting day! The 11 of us students split into 4 groups, each covering a square mile of the park. Out of the 11 of us, 6 put a foot or a leg through the ice. One guy went through twice: [...]
7 January 2008
warm winter
today got up to 41 degrees fahrenheit. a great day for being out so here are some photos i got. we just hiked a little way up a ski trail near our house. the lake in the photos is lake itasca.
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3 January 2008
the palace
so the house us six girls live in here (in the middle of Itasca State Park) is three stories with a garage. four bedrooms. ten beds plus a cot and two pull-out cots. we have a wood stove – and a more than capable thermostat (i roasted last night). we have three bathrooms, two of [...]
1 January 2008
heading north
I apologize for my long silence. Finals and then the holidays simply ran away with me! So I hope you’ll accept my belated wishes of a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
January has dawned frigid as usual. Today at noon the temperature was 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The last few years [...]
