Lutsen

Last weekend we made a trip up the north shore to Lutsen. It's been way too long since we have been past Duluth. We have so many wonderful friends in Duluth/Superior that we tend to get stuck there...in a good way. Jon's sister, Gretchen, and her boyfriend, Dylan, decided to join us. We stayed at a tiny log cabin right on the shore. I could have spit in the lake from the deck. I forgot how peaceful it is to listen to the waves crash against the rocks. I knew I had been in the city too long when it took me awhile to figure out what I was hearing. We did LOTS of skiing, including the Picnic Loop with our buddy Jere. We added a trip up to Moose Fence in order to make it 40km. Jere rightly predicted that we would be complaining the last 10km. Why do we torture ourselves in this way? Oh yeah, because we signed up for the BIrkie. Idiots!