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Bruce MacDonald @[email protected] · 2026-07-19 · 12:36 UTC

Good morning from Minneapolis where, quite early Sunday, it's 71℉/22℃; smoke; light south-southeast winds; visibility 6 miles at the airport.

Today
Patchy smoke between 8am and 11am. Sunny, with a high near 91.

- Turning cooler with near or slightly below normal temperatures Tuesday with the hot temperatures returning by next weekend.
— Area Forecast Discussion, NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

With a large majority of prospective tourists and outers, "camping out" is a leading factor in the summer vacation. And during the long winter months they are prone to collect in little knots and talk much of camps, fishing, hunting, and "roughing it." The last phrase is very popular and always cropping out in the talks on matters pertaining to a vacation in the woods. I dislike the phrase. We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks—anywhere that we may be placed—with the necessity always present of being on time and up to our work; of providing for the dependent ones; of keeping up, catching up, or getting left. "Alas for the life-long battle, whose bravest slogan is bread."
— George W. Sears as "Nessmuk" in Woodcraft and Camping, 1920
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34607/34607-h/34607-h.htm

#mnwx #SilentSunday #outdoors #NorthWoods #camping #canoeing

#mnwx #silentsunday #outdoors #northwoods #camping #canoeing

Bruce MacDonald @[email protected] · 2026-07-19 · 12:36 UTC

Good morning from Minneapolis where, quite early Sunday, it's 71℉/22℃; smoke; light south-southeast winds; visibility 6 miles at the airport.

Today
Patchy smoke between 8am and 11am. Sunny, with a high near 91.

- Turning cooler with near or slightly below normal temperatures Tuesday with the hot temperatures returning by next weekend.
— Area Forecast Discussion, NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

With a large majority of prospective tourists and outers, "camping out" is a leading factor in the summer vacation. And during the long winter months they are prone to collect in little knots and talk much of camps, fishing, hunting, and "roughing it." The last phrase is very popular and always cropping out in the talks on matters pertaining to a vacation in the woods. I dislike the phrase. We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks—anywhere that we may be placed—with the necessity always present of being on time and up to our work; of providing for the dependent ones; of keeping up, catching up, or getting left. "Alas for the life-long battle, whose bravest slogan is bread."
— George W. Sears as "Nessmuk" in Woodcraft and Camping, 1920
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34607/34607-h/34607-h.htm

#mnwx #SilentSunday #outdoors #NorthWoods #camping #canoeing

#mnwx #silentsunday #outdoors #northwoods #camping #canoeing

dose @[email protected] · 2026-07-10 · 05:51 UTC

First coffee at the river. The ACA swift water rescue course starts today. ☺️ #canoeing #paddling #ACA

#canoeing #paddling #aca