Boundary Waters Adventure

The blog has been inactive for far too long... Steve is long dead and buried... so today I'm giving you two updates!

Since my last post I've started my final quarter here in Minnesota. During my one week break in-between quarters I decided I needed a break from the work as well as school. So I got together some of the good ol' boys (Jesse, Elroy and Brendan) and we set out to have an adventure in one of Minnesota's most famous natural features, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

It wasn't a relaxing weekend in the way I thought it would be, with three days of traveling from Sawbill Lake up into Cherokee and then looping back down to where we started. Our second day we crossed eight or nine portages the old fashioned way canoes, two guys carrying canoes on their shoulders while the other two double packed it. As a testament to how much this can wear you out we almost slept twelve hours after our first day of traveling. However by the time we reached our last lake we were all sore, stinky and happy with our adventure. The best part was somewhere between day one and day three I forget about work, deadlines, graduation and I no longer visualized 3D models and FX shots in my sleep.

One of the main reasons I wanted to head out to the Boundary waters was for the chance to capture some great fall photos. On our first and second day's we only got rain, but towards evening on the second day the sun broke through just enough to splash the clouds with red as it set. The next morning the lakes were like glass, covered in fog and the skies were clear with perfect photography conditions.

The pictures are all pretty self-explanitory... we had an awesome time.