Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_857" align="alignnone" width="230" caption="Northern Shrike"][/caption] Only someone who spent his childhood purusing bird books could on a quick glimpse identify this bird as a Northern Shrike. I had never heard of this bird before but Troy spotted it dive bombing out bird feeders after lunch. It is a bird of prey and eats other small brids. It was diving... Read more

Excerpt: <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> I added a couple of openings this morning Eagles Nest June 20 - 27th and August 14 - 21st Summer 2009 Openings May – May 22nd Lots open at our lowest rates of the season. Memorial Day Weekend 3 night minimum Shamrock 3bdr Restawhile 2bdr... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_845" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Point in fresh snow"][/caption] We had about 4 - 5 inches of fresh snow come down in the last 24 hours. The extreme cold left and the snow moved in. It is perfect winter days to play outside, plenty of snow and not so cold [caption id="attachment_846" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="View Looking at Hilltop"][/caption] I had... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_838" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="What are those orbs in the snow outside of Kaubashine"][/caption] Walking past Kaubashine these beautiful orbs caught my attention. I had to stop in and see how they were made [caption id="attachment_842" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Closer View"][/caption] I realized someone had taken the idea of ice candles we made in buckets to a new level. What would... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_829" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Winter is here"][/caption] Take the beach steps at your own risk! [caption id="attachment_834" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Poe negotiating the steps"][/caption] Poe and his claws managing to make it up the stairs. Little does he know he is headed in the wrong direction we are heading down to the collllld lake for some pics. He is headed in... Read more

Excerpt: What to do in the cold? Get the axe out, put the wool mittens and warm yourself twice. [caption id="attachment_825" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Pile growing"][/caption] After depleting the woodshed the last month, the guys thought it was time to add to the pile [caption id="attachment_826" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The boss stopping in to give his 2 sense"][/caption] Craig stopped in with... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_805" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="New Trail Groomer"][/caption] Cross County Cruisers just purchased a new groomer for the snowmobile trails. I figured there were a few nonsnowmobilers out there that just might wonder what a trail groomer looks like [caption id="attachment_801" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="John the Groomer Guy, aka Steve's neighbor John the hardware guy"][/caption] With a hot coffee from Steve, John... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_810" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Very Frozen Lake Superior"][/caption] We headed up to Washburn this weekend along Lake Superior, where some coach decided it was a good idea to sign up for a basketball tournament in January. Grumble Grumble..... The sights along the way made up for a early morning drive. I took this picture just outside of Ashland, Washburn is... Read more

Excerpt: Poe and I had a few minutes to kill and a camera so off we went to see what we could see around the resort. Started out by Shamrock where the squirrels have several winter burrows. Deserted resort and light snow falling, eerily quiet. We started to keep an eye on the tracks in the snow. My guess is... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_783" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Cold Morning"][/caption] Temps went subzero last night and it was hard to head out the door this morning. All the smoke stacks were chugging out smoke this morning. [caption id="attachment_784" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="View at the Elementary School"][/caption] How do you know it is winter and the trails are in good shape? Check out the parking lot... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_778" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Front Slope"][/caption] We took some time this weekend to head over to Camp 10 downhill ski area about 40 minutes from the resort between Rhinelander and Tomahawk. I had heard of this for years but never done it. Most folks head up to Ironwood and Hurley for down hill a little over and hour away. Camp... Read more

Excerpt: Looks like we have some white stuff coming in. Figures when the plow truck is acting up Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 0. Calm wind becoming east around 6 mph. Saturday: Snow likely, mainly after 9am. Cloudy, with a high near 23. East southeast wind between 6 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_773" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The mighty fishermen arrived and who caught the fish... Austin"][/caption] Rumor has it the nice big walleye seen in the picture was caught by Austin who will be guiding on Lower Kaubashine soon [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Nice Catch!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_772" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The rest of the catch"][/caption] One of the smaller northerns they kept had... Read more

Excerpt: Why no blog entries lately.... would you believe me if I said we had been fending off a Republican Guard take over by Storm Troopers. Called in the Jedi and Obiwan and they have been driven off I drive past his tree eveyday and with the fresh snow looks like it is saying something or something out of the... Read more

Excerpt: Steve took this picture at New Years of fight super moon through the trees Happy New Year! Around the resort we had Troy's ice candles burning creating a small amount of warmth in the cold temps We spent the weekend getting 200 spring, summer and fall confirmation letters ready to send out. They are headed out in Tuesdays mail... Read more

Excerpt: Grant put this bird house on our deck yesterday so it had no snow on it before we got this nice fluffy fresh 2 inches of snow yesterday and last night. It was more than enough snow to make hwy 51 hard to drive on at 9:30 after a basketball game last night I think this picture of my... Read more

Excerpt: Sometimes I wonder if anyone is out there reading the blog or if they really need one more picture of trees and snow and then I get a nice card like this from someone that does not even stay at the resort but just checks in to see what is going on at the lake and the Northwoods Hi Jenny... Read more

Excerpt: Finally made it to Radio Shack to get a new camera cord. Christmas seems to have eaten up my old one... Finally getting to upload a few pics from the storm on Friday [caption id="attachment_738" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Favorite Pic"][/caption] I like the perspective of this picture. I looked through the juncture of a tree at a huge Red Pine on... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_718" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Merry Christmas"][/caption] It feels a lot like Christmas in the Northwoods. Families have started to arrive to enjoy the holidays. [caption id="attachment_721" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Dunton Family and Bandit too"][/caption] John and Maureen and their girls have decked out Norway complete with a beautiful Christmas tree. Maureen's family has long ties to the Cliff. Her dad... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_708" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Following the snowplow down the road"][/caption] The snow plow was making the snow fly down Lower Kaubashine. The last few days have led to enough snow to stop Grandpa Gibson from leaving. He finally made it off this morning. The snow has given us plenty to play in [caption id="attachment_705" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Snow hill at MHLT... Read more