Thursday, February 28, 2013

Ice Fishing and Snowmobiling

Wait a minute.  Ice fishing and snowmobiling?  Those are not my usual activities!  Maybe this is someone else's blog!

Nope.  It's mine.

Tuesday was gorgeous.  Aaron and I got up early to celebrate his birthday with some ice fishing.  I have never gone ice fishing to ice fish before, so I thought it would be Aaron's gift.  (What?  We are cheap!)  Here are the pictures from the day.

Sunshine!!!

Aaron checking the ice... how does it look to you???

Setting up the whip-ups

A Coho Salmon: first catch of the morning

Shadows of love

We caught one more salmon before the day was through.  I tell you, if the weather wasn't 30 degrees, sunny and calm, I don't think I could do that very often.  I mean, I know I can go in the shanty, but it's warm in there, and I fall asleep!  Bartending and ice fishing are not on the same schedule.  But we had lovely time!

Aaron is in charge of panking a part of the trail for the CopperDog this weekend, so yesterday I went with him for an adventure.  Here is a video of the highlights in less than two minutes.


Today the winds have really picked up.  Now it's cold again.  Today I finally psyched myself up for a run (you know how I love to run), but when I opened the door, the wind nearly blew it back in my face!  Heck no!  I'll stay home and write a blog!  There's so much going on this week that I figured I'd better stay ahead of the game.

Here are a few notes about optimizing your time on this blog:
- You can click anywhere on the pictures to see them bigger
- You can click on the videos to see them bigger (bottom right corner)
- You can click on the youtube icon on the videos to watch them on Youtube
- You can click on any words that are brown and underlined  -- it's a link.  

You might be computer savvy and know all this, but I just figured some of it out myself!  Happy clicking!

10 comments:

  1. I just wanted to leave a comment to tell you how much I enjoy your blog. I love Copper Harbor and don't get up there enough, so I use your blog to stay connected up there. Keep up the good work.

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  2. Hey Richard! Thanks for the compliment. Your feeling is exactly the reason why I keep on writing and capturing moments in da Harbor!

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  3. I just wanted to start by saying I dont blog or facebook but thought I could communicate through your awesome site.Your book sounds great and hopefully could get a signed copy in Summer when I come biking I was just up there staying at the pines looking for that epic ride at Mt. Bohemia and just missed it by a day or two but was fortunate to meet Aaron at Copper Harbors only grocery store and talk biking and trail building.Since reaching Chicago rally-ed over 50 friends and still climbing to support Bell build.
    Shane

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  4. Shane, glad you got to meet Aaron. He is something, all right! And thanks for rallying support for our club! I'll have s signed copy of the book for you, just find me at the Harbor Haus bar tending.

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    1. Which one is Harbor Haus bar? I might just have to get it sooner! Aaron said less busy time to come up for some biking would be September?

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  5. September should be great for biking... especially since we still have all this snow! The Harbor Haus is down on the water at First Street. See you this summer!

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  6. Hopefully you got my gift in the mail!
    Me and my son cant wait to check out your book he has to read 20 minutes every night for school and thought he would enjoy hearing about copper harbor.Weather will be breaking for you guys soon we start breaking ground on are new trails in a couple weeks and hopefully you guys get the votes you need and start soon as well.Harbor Haus looks nice defently gonna have to check it out when we come forsure.
    Shane

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  7. I thought that was you, Shane. I'm mailing it out today!

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    1. Sweeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!
      Sounds good we will be waiting.

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  8. Congrats on the big win super pumped for you guys now you have to get the 100 inches of snow out of there! Chicago weather isn't so great here either has been raining like crazy!
    Good luck on next book i will purchase that one also! Tell flying man to take it easy he has trails to build and snow to shovel.
    Hope to see you guys when we come to ride
    Shane

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