Superior Hiking Trail

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:08 pm

Greetings fellow sawdust makers,

I put together a video of some hiking pictures I've taken over the years on the Superior Hiking Trail in northern Minnesota. I hope you have a few minutes to sit back and enjoy the scenery and music.

Best,
Tom

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:25 pm

Nicely done!

Interesting bridge repairs.

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:57 pm

Very nice pictures, Tom! Thank you!

sawmill · Post by **sawmill** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:17 pm

Very nice. The one bridge looked kinda of shakey:)

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:45 am

Thank you all! Yes the bridges can definitely give you pause before you step across some of them. They are a big issue on the trail. Floods occasionally wash them downstream (if we're lucky) or turn them into kindling when combined with ice during the spring melt. The trail association has a full time paid maintenance supervisor but most of the work is done with an army of volunteer weekend warriors.

berry · Post by **berry** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:04 am

Great pictures and I liked you selection of music. Very cool. Thanks for sharing. How much of it have you walked?

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:05 pm

Thanks berry, glad you enjoyed it. I learned a lot about music and youtube on this video. At one time youtube would delete a video with commercial music. They have software that automatically identifies the song you're playing. These days if they find commercial music on your video they place an ad on the front of your video and send the ad revenue to the artists. That seems fair to me. The viewer can delete the ad with a mouse click.

I have hiked all of the trail from Duluth to Grand Marais over the years, on weekends mostly. There are a few miles on the very northern sections I have yet to do. I do some sections over and over again just because I enjoy them and I don't have to drive so far. Some people attempt a through-hike. They start in Duluth and end up at the Canadian border a few weeks later. They mail food packages to themselves before they leave home in care of post offices and stores they pass near on the trail. I'm not sure I have a through-hike left in me but it would be fun to give it a try.

danr · Post by **danr** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:03 pm

Great scenery. Mostly flat, unlike Colorado which is all uphill...

Dan

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:54 pm

[quote="danr"]Great scenery. Mostly flat, unlike Colorado which is all uphill...]

Turn around and look east!:D

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:29 am

Very nice pictures, most of them would be nice subjects for a painter.
Nice montage and nice music as well. I must say that I do not always appreciate movements while seeing a picture. I find that for me it distracts the eye and I missed something, some detail, so what I do is pause the video in order to look more closely, of course that pauses the music as well, but one must choose, is it the music I am listening to or is it the pictures that I want to enjoy. So I end up watching twice and when it is intended to be paused I close the volume of the music to enjoy more fully the pictures.
Beautiful scenery particularly in the fall with the colours and in the spring with the flowers.