Some of you probably weren't even born when the sports show that said something like, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, all the pictures were of Falls. Skiers falling, skaters falling. Best I can add for now.
Spent the afternoon digging in Como, up to my KNEES in snow! The only person we saw that we know was AW driving the opposite way between McMurray and the construction zone. We drove around the whole park before we left and it seemed there were people scattered throughout.
As glaciers advanced and retreated through Minnesota, some of the ice that stagnated was more difficult to melt than other areas. The glaciers continued to deposit sediments around and sometimes on top of these isolated ice blocks. As the ice blocks melted, they left behind depressions in the landscape. The depressions filled with snowmelt and rainwater producing kettle lakes.
Kettle lakes may be formed within the ground moraine region behind the terminal moraines. They can be of any size and their shorelines can be composed of anything from clay to sand to boulders. In a terminal moraine region, the kettles are fairly small but deep, to fit between the moraine's steep and hilly ridges. If the ice had advanced outward and then retreated leaving behind an outwash, kettles may have formed. Outwash kettle lakes are usually shallow and their numbers are much smaller than in other glaciated regions. The abundant sand quickly can fill in the depressions and composes most of the beaches of these lakes.
Because Minnesota has had glacial movements into the state from both the northeast and northwest, the landscape has been modified by overlapping glacial regions. An outwash plain of Cary age may have a newer cover of ground moraine of Mankato age. A Cary ground moraine may have been subsequently covered over by Mankato outwash.
The majority of lakes in the world are kettle lakes produced by glacial activity. In Minnesota, the majority of kettles lakes reside in ground moraine and terminal moraine areas.
Kettles formed on the front side of a terminal moraine. The Terminal Moraine that goes through the twin cities is the Anoka sand plains (so through the northern suburbs) So many of the lakes south of that are glacier kettles. That's still telling me Como.
I feel like I have egg on my face now for posting the tidbit about BC at the other board yesterday. oh well. They were still all over the place all day, from the looks of it.
a nip is either something you grab onto or a small bottle of liquor. I'm guessing up one of the wooded hills along lower battle creek. Or one of the coolers has it. Don't they all usually have a small bottle of liquor on them?
You know I'm starting to think Prime Spot is in refrence to 3M. 3M could also be the math (3 * M), with McKnight being that Path. 3M is closing up shop and moving alot of their operations.
Some of you probably weren't even born when the sports show that said something like, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, all the pictures were of Falls. Skiers falling, skaters falling. Best I can add for now.
Edited because I was going to post something stupid. :pbpt:
(Ty Timmers)
Out in the frigid cold.
With a nip to brace and a bit of grace,
You will have the item to hold.
There are a number of these near where I grew up in Sheboygan. They are usually around 1/2 mile or so big.
Thanks Tim!!!
Kettle lakes may be formed within the ground moraine region behind the terminal moraines. They can be of any size and their shorelines can be composed of anything from clay to sand to boulders. In a terminal moraine region, the kettles are fairly small but deep, to fit between the moraine's steep and hilly ridges. If the ice had advanced outward and then retreated leaving behind an outwash, kettles may have formed. Outwash kettle lakes are usually shallow and their numbers are much smaller than in other glaciated regions. The abundant sand quickly can fill in the depressions and composes most of the beaches of these lakes.
Because Minnesota has had glacial movements into the state from both the northeast and northwest, the landscape has been modified by overlapping glacial regions. An outwash plain of Cary age may have a newer cover of ground moraine of Mankato age. A Cary ground moraine may have been subsequently covered over by Mankato outwash.
The majority of lakes in the world are kettle lakes produced by glacial activity. In Minnesota, the majority of kettles lakes reside in ground moraine and terminal moraine areas.
http://www.parkbugle.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1267:many-projects-underway-at-como-regional-park&catid=13:articles
uh oh!
"A nip to brace" = A trip beacon
fallen log?
http://forums.twincities.com/n/mb/listsf.asp?webtag=kr-tcitiesother&gfc=1&sts=1%2F29%2F2011+12%3A51%3A14+AM
Or at least keep a stiff upper lip
upper afton at BC
I don't want it to be in a big park and I still can't believe this year of all years, it was put in one.