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Snowfall on Ice and Open Water at Copper Falls State Park, Ashland County, Wisconsin

                                                                                                                                                                         From a Ryan Brady Photo

 

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Winter Expedition Skills, 2009

 

From this: Northland College Outdoor Education students are shown building Trail Toboggans.   To this: One of the finished toboggans is shown loaded, in the snow.
From this . . .   To this.

 

Loading the toboggan: there are Worker Bees, and there are Drone Bees--one student loads a Trail Toboggan as others watch.   On the trail: they look like they stepped right out of a Francis Lee Jaques pen-and-ink print.
Loading the toboggan: there are Worker Bees, and there
are Drone Bees, and you know which ones you are.		   On the trail: they look like they stepped right out of a
Francis Lee Jaques pen-and-ink print.

 

Here, the Trail Toboggan is rigged with a pole to help negotiate hills.   A Quinzee Hut, the morning after: the ten inch thick snow walls support the weight of ten Northland College Outdoor Education students--approximately 1,500 pounds.
Here, the Trail Toboggan is rigged with a pole to help
negotiate hills.		   A Quinzee Hut, the morning after: the ten inch thick snow
walls support the weight of ten Northland College Outdoor
Education students--approximately 1,500 pounds.