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    August 4, 2017
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    Pup tent: On the trail with the yellow dog
    Dusk is coming on. The camp dishes are long since done. I've taken one last swim off the point to cool down. We know what comes next: The mosquito...
    sports/outdoorsAugust 4, 2017 - 9:02am
    July 31, 2017
    Alpine Factory owner Jessica Parcheta helps Henry Schwartz, 12, with his form on the fast moving slope on July 6, 2017 at Alpine Factory in Arden Hills, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)
    Minnesota skiers defy summer heat on giant indoor treadmill — complete with fake snow
    ARDEN HILLS, Minn. — On a recent balmy midsummer day, Shawn Ryan spent his lunch break downhill skiing in a warehouse in Arden Hills. "You...
    newsJuly 31, 2017 - 12:53pm
    July 30, 2017
    A fast-moving thunderstorm forced the pilots of two floatplanes to land and return to the dock shortly after 6 a.m. Monday, July 17 at Shining Falls Lodge in eastern Manitoba. The planes were back in the air less than an hour later. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service
    Dokken: Another floatplane adventure
    Floatplanes are the workhorses of the North, providing convenient transportation to remote fishing spots and supplies to areas not accessible...
    sports/outdoorsJuly 30, 2017 - 3:32pm
    Eric Tofte of Grand Marais moves along the shore of a North Shore stream as he plays a brook trout on a July morning. Tofte uses a Tenkara fly rod with no reel, which he finds perfectly suited for fishing small northern Minnesota streams. Sam Cook / Forum News Service
    Grand Marais angler uses unconventional rods to fish North Shore streams
    ON THE NORTH SHORE — The place where Eric Tofte is fishing is improbably beautiful. He's a half-mile or so up a North Shore stream, well...
    sports/outdoorsJuly 30, 2017 - 12:26pm
    Dorothy Molter at her cabin in the Boundary Waters at age 77, in 1984. Ely-based musician Barb Cary Hall has spent the past six years writing a musical about Molter, who spent more than 50 years living alone and tending to tourists on Knife Lake. (Sam Cook / Forum News Service)
    Into the woods: An Ely musician has turned ‘Root Beer Lady’ Dorothy Molter’s story into a musical
    ELY, Minn. — A long-ish time ago, on an island in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, there lived a nurse who made root beer for...
    newsJuly 30, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 28, 2017
    Program director Scott Roemhildt (left) and local technician Nick Peterson of Brewster are shown posting private lands that will soon be open to public hunting through the Walk in Access program. (submitted photo)
    Scott Rall: Extreme heat cannot keep Roemhildt from his appointed rounds
    BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist Whenever I see a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources truck or other vehicle in the neighborhood,...
    sports/outdoorsJuly 28, 2017 - 1:46pm
    Riders in the 2,745-mile Tour Divide backcountry bicycle race from Alberta to New Mexico follow a gravel path in the mountains near Banff, Alberta. Duluth's Jeremy Kershaw, who took this photo, was one of seven Duluth riders who took part in the race and one of five who finished. (Jeremy Kershaw photo)
    Back from the high country: Cyclists describe trials of 2,745-mile race
    DULUTH — They are home now, their saddle sores healed, their energy reserves rebuilding. They are eating meals of actual food again. For...
    newsJuly 28, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 23, 2017
    Jake Boyce gathers up Mike and Katelynn Buchanan over a spot near a tall cliff on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, so they can get a look at the remains of the shipwreck Madeira, a schooner-barge that sank near the shore just north of Split Rock Lighthouse in 1905. Bob King / Forum News Service
    North Shore tour offers kayakers a glimpse of Split Rock shoreline
    Mike Buchanan had spent 22 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, including a stint at the Coast Guard's Duluth station in the 1990s. But he was about...
    newsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    Elizabeth Vaughn, center, leads a sunset kayak tour past the aerial lift bridge on Saturday, July 8, 2017, on Superior Bay in Duluth, Minn. Vaughn works for The Duluth Experience. The Duluth Experience leads a variety of Kayak tours. Mike Krebs / Forum News Service
    A night on the town -- and on the water
    It was a warm July evening, and the Duluth-Superior harbor was a happening place. Pleasure boats buzzed about. Cars hummed across the Aerial...
    newsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    Jake Boyce (foreground), one of Day Tripper's founders, paddles on Lake Superior with Mike and Katelynn Buchanan of North Vernon, Ind., beneath the rock cliff dominated by Split Rock Lighthouse on the morning of July 19, 2017. Bob King / Forum News Service
    Sharing Duluth's outdoor adventures: Tour companies offer visitors guided experiences on trails and on the water
    On Wednesday morning, Mike Buchanan and his daughter, Katelynn, 15, found themselves in a situation they'd never experienced before. The pair...
    newsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 21, 2017
    Round Lake Sportsman’s Club gives kids an important opportunity
    The third Sunday of July has for 38 years been the pinpoint on the calendar for the renowned Horned Trout Tournament sponsored by the Round Lake...
    sports/outdoorsJuly 21, 2017 - 8:03pm
    A Minnesota angler holds a walleye before releasing it. Walleye fishing on Lake Mille Lacs will remain closed longer than originally planned because the state has killed too many fish this year, officials said Friday, July 21. File photo / Forum News Service
    Walleye fishing on Minnesota's Mille Lacs to remain closed longer
    ST. PAUL — Walleye fishing on Lake Mille Lacs will remain closed longer than originally planned because the state has killed too many...
    newsJuly 21, 2017 - 3:28pm
    There are several spots along the Knife River Hiking Trail where hikers can go down to the Knife River and take pictures, fish or just sit and listen to the sounds of the river. Adelle Whitefoot / Forum News Service
    Minnesota's 'gem of a trail' hiking through landowner issues
    KNIFE RIVER, Minn.—Steve Betzler made his way down to the rocky shore of the Knife River and stood looking at the pools and falls created...
    newsJuly 21, 2017 - 8:00am
    July 15, 2017
    Scott Rall: Making hunting easier isn't an answer
    I have always thought of summer as June, July and August. Once you get past these three months, we are well on your way to fall — even if the specific date on the calendar is a more than a few weeks off.
    sports/outdoorsJuly 15, 2017 - 9:55am
    July 14, 2017
    A leopard cub nurses from a lioness known as Nosikitok in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Courtesy of Panthera.
    Awww. A wild lioness is photographed nursing a baby leopard.
    Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organization Panthera, received an email this week from one of his...
    newsJuly 14, 2017 - 8:53am
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