Mid Summer

Summer is clicking along nicely. With schools ending later and starting earlier, it seems like there is only 6 solid weeks. This holds true for us at the resort with spring wedding season running farther into June and than starting back up again in August. Concordia Language camps in between to fill the gap. Hard to believe we are on the last days of June. 

Jonell getting flowers arranged for a wedding this June. Jonell does an absolutely amazing job multi tasking and nailing it like no one else I know. 

Jack ready to head for a Euro trip. Jack at the tail end of a ten day trip with a group from school.  

Ready to take flight! Having a blast, look forward to the stories upon return. 
The summer hockey as far as hockey tourneys is the lightest it has ever been as mentioned in a previous post. Jon did the Sioux Falls Stampede main camp mid June. The Stampede is part of the USHL.

Jon had a great camp putting himself where he wants to be going into the fall for JR hockey. He is spending the rest of the summer staying at the cousins working out with the MAP program.

With the grass growing slowing down, trail work has picked up and the tweaking of mountain bike trail and what not. I didn't get around to building new trail like I wanted but hopefully this fall can resume work on a new loop on the Maplelag property east of Bullhead lake.

Overall June has been an awesome month and some beautiful nights for riding.

Last week hit up the first Enduro race in the Duluth Enduro series. Had a blast pedaling as fast as possible on a short course and kept the rubber side down. Cross country racing isn't as technical like it used to be and Enduro is a nice alternative. Finished up a nice ride with Jake and Ethan after the racing.

Stayed over that night and hooked up with Jake for a beautiful ride the next morning before heading home on the ever expanding Duluth mountain bike trails.

Overlooking Duluth port from the new Enger trail. Jake took me on some new trail that was probably the most technical I've ridden and what he called "The hardest trail in Duluth". Not so much the rocks but the crazy drops. Was all good until the end of the ride. Went down hard on a 6 foot drop, and bruised up the other side of my ribs. Just as the other side was healing up from a crash in May.  No photos on the gnarly stuff. Just keeping the wheels moving as much as possible. Overall some intense riding in a 24 hour period.

Picked up an old used fishing boat from a widow south of Perham earlier this summer. She was so happy to see the boat go to a kid that was into fishing. Jens has been getting out quite a bit with some luck.

Has just enough horse to ski. Jens getting up on one for the first time this year and getting a run in here and there when conditions and time allow.

Wood fired cooking as much as possible on warm summer nights.

Jonell had a rare 6 day stretch she didn't have to go to town. Kept plenty busy with resort happenings but enjoyed every minute of down time available.