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Published December 18, 2008, 12:00 AM

Winter 2008-2009


Photo by Paul Sundberg

an Agate Bay December morning at 20 below with lots of frsot. But the gulls were still flying. Temperatures fell as low as minus 35 this past week in the Isabella area of Lake County.

  • Photo by Paul Sundberg<br /><br />an Agate Bay December morning at 20 below with lots of frsot. But the gulls were still flying. Temperatures fell as low as minus 35 this past week in the Isabella area of Lake County.
  • Photo by Monica Isley<br /><br />The frosted nose of the Presque Isle points toward the ore dock in Agate Bay on Dec. 14.
  • Photo by Monica Isley<br /><br />It’s questionable how far the light from the Two Harbors beacon can reach into the steam off Agate Bay. At 15 below zero Tuesday morning (12/14/08), with wind chills of 33 below zero, the steam formed rime when it arrived on shore, changing the landscape into something almost other-worldly.
  • Photo by Monica Isley<br /><br />At 9:30 am. Tuesday (12/14/08), it was 15 below zero at the Two Harbors waterfront, with a wind chill of 33 below zero. Lake steam, when it reached shore, froze into the rime that looks like store-bought flocking and turned the waterfront into a wonderland. Just visible through the steam is the stern end of the Presque Isle alongside No. 2 ore dock.
  • Photo by Monica Isley <br /><br />Those who get out of their vehicles and trudge through the snow on below-zero days at Agate Bay find a magical world transformed by ice, snow, fog and rime. Although no one was out and about on Monday morning, a few tracks in the snow proved someone had ventured out—perhaps on a warmer day.
  • Photo by Monica Isley<br /><br />The fog signal building at the end of the breakwater in Two Harbors seems to exist in a world of its own thanks to the fog created when air temperatures are far below that of unfrozen water. This scene on Monday morning found few at the below-zero waterfront to enjoy it.
  • Photo by Paul Sundberg<br /><br />The snowy winter woods are in great shape for skiers to enjoy. The trails at Gooseberry Falls State Park are all groomed and tracked and in excellent condition. Reports from other trails systems from Korkki Nordic to the Erkki Harju in Two Harbors and the Northwoods in Silver Bay are all stellar. We’re finally having a normal, snowy winter in Lake County.
  • Photo by Matt Mecklin--Ice fishing at dawn on a frigid Agate Bay means lake steam and pastel colors that will fade as the day ages.