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February 8, 2018February 8, 2018

four-year minneversary walk

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December 6, 2017December 6, 2017

ennui-rdness

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June 2, 2015June 2, 2015

dangerous commutes

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April 6, 2015April 14, 2015

expanding my home range

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February 3, 2015February 5, 2018

one year walk

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October 29, 2014October 29, 2014

Thai food and also rodents (pretty unrelated)

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October 13, 2014October 13, 2014

an autumnal update

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September 14, 2014September 17, 2014

moving house

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my six-month minnesota-versary

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Summer’s not gone yet. #onlyinmn #minnehahacreek #watershed

Twentieth night out! Can I get to 28 by December 31st?! Pressure. Is. On. #onemonthoutside #onlyinmn #adventurebang #sointents #wildriverstatepark #stcroixriver

What a FAIRly wonderful day!! ❤️ (Niko was there too, he just didn’t make any photos. :-/) #greatmngettogether #mnstatefair #onlyinmn

I spent 21 of August’s 31 days in Michigan, a state where life (in the form of caterpillars) conquers death (in the form of small carnivore skulls) and sandy forests thrive, nurtured I imagine by the presence of people who I love the crap out of. #puremichigan #adventurebang #greatlakes #michigangirl

We don’t update our beach towels that often, but our love gets stronger and our stories get better every year. Mom, I love you to the moon and back and all the way around the Lake. (Swipe to see us 17 years ago.) (PS also the lake levels are REALLY high.) #puremichigan #dengateshow #nordhousedunes @dengate436

Fine white sand on the rough boardwalk, and that smell of hot dune grass. A dive into a turbulent wave. Leaping frogs in Porter Creek, shadowy and mosquitoed and bearing up under waterfalls of sand and dried leaves. There’s a sandbar. There’s a tuck in the dune. There’s a place for jumping, a trail for running, a smell of white pine needles in the sun. I’m giggling and dashing and leaping and floating to sea on a pink flamingo, both 31 and 10 years old, with these people I love and know and need. We’re singing around the campfire and toasting our love and the sun is setting the lake on fire and she’s family too. #puremichigan #ilove #adventurebang #nordhousedunes

I’m posting retroactively about Moosewatch, and just a week later, at home in Minneapolis, it feels far away and otherworldly - pushing through thick stands of spruce, falling asleep to the ethereal sounds of loon calls, waking up to scoop bags of water to filter from inland lakes - but those lakes and loons and spruce are there right now, doing their thing. Anyway, this is the 6th day of Moosewatch - a rainy day hike loop from Lake Harvey and back again, to check out two places where collared wolves were spending a lot of time. We didn’t find any killed moose, but did see lots of sign of beavers. #fieldresearch #isleroyale #puremichigan #adventurebang @wolvesandmooseofisleroyale @isleroyalenps

Can you find all five of my #Moosewatch team members in this photo? | On day 5 of Moosewatch, we said goodbye to Otter Lake and scaled the Minong Ridge, stumbled across Velma (a very old moose with a lot of arthritis) and some tiny beaver bones, and set up camp by Harvey Lake. All of the bones that we found will help tell the story of their individual moose, but also of the island moose generally, moose on the mainland, and even how diseases like arthritis and periodontal issues progress in people too. #puremichigan #adventurebang #hikingofftrail #isleroyale #fieldresearch @wolvesandmooseofisleroyale @isleroyalenps

On Day 4 of Moosewatch, we collected the bones of Una, a moose yearling; hiked from McDonald to Otter Lakes; ate thimbleberries and observed many frogs; and swam with loons. #puremichigan #adventurebang #fieldresearch #isleroyale @wolvesandmooseofisleroyale @isleroyalenps

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