Mistletoe Creek

And, we're back!

Friday was pretty lame. Steve and I did a Phase I along a stretch of road northwest of Lutsen. The leaves are changing colors, and our drive through nowhere was very pretty early in the morning. But as we started to walk along the road looking for places to shovel test the sky got dark. Then we heard thunder. That means we get to sit in the van. It thundered for probably a half hour, then we have to wait 20 minutes before we can go back to work, according to our "safety handbook" which I have never seen and doubt it even exists. By the time we were going to start working again it began to rain. And since neither of us felt like working in the rain we sat in the van some more.

Finally we were able to do something. It turns out that something was walk along the road. The whole area had a low probability for a site. So we walked to say that we did something. About 5 miles later had made it back to the van. Well, that was an easy day's work.

On our way back to Duluth we stopped at a couple waterfalls along the highway. One was on the Cross River, and I can't remember the other, but it was further north. We also stopped in Beaver Bay at a rock store to see if they had any raw material for knapping. Turns out they only had obsidian, and I wanted something more in the chert or flint type of rock.

Turns out we may end up driving all the way up to Rapid River, by Baudette, on Tuesday, to meet with a MNDoT engineer to discuss the site area and where they are going to disturbing the soil. SO, depending on that meeting, we may or may not be conducting a Phase II up there. Which means digging in clay..... very slow hard work!