Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

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: 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: 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

Excerpt: I had all of the calendars from my 1st order spoken for and have had a few more requests. I am going to make a 2nd order tonight. Anyone want any? They are 18 each for one calendar and if I am shipping more than one 15. Send me an email at info@blackscliff.com by tonight... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_679" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="-10 below looking out the window through the frost"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Sunrise in the pines"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_681" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="View from between the lakes"][/caption] I had to stop in at a neighbor's plowing and snuck down to take this picture. I was right between the big part of the lake and the smaller side... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_694" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="What is this?"][/caption] Cutting edge fishing technology in a bucket. What is in this bucket could change fish cleaning forever.... The inside of this wonder machine. I thought it looked like an ice cream maker. Grandpa Gibson saw this in action last winter on a lake to the south and took all the dimmensions and spent... Read more

Excerpt: When there is snow on the walkway on Monday morning it is time to go back inside and light a fire We still have openings for both this weekend and Thanksgiving. Save More does a wonderful job on a pick it up Thanksgiving dinner if anyone wants to make their life very easy and escape the relatives... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_660" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Lower Kaubashine with fresh snow"][/caption] Heading back from coffee and plowing out Steve Sunday morning Lower Kaubashine was a picture post card with the pines loaded with wet sticky snow [caption id="attachment_661" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="2 figures spotted in the snow"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_658" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Grandpa Gibsona nd Troy drilling the 1st holes of the season"][/caption] Setting... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_631" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Take a trip back in time with Maynard and Millie "]/[/caption] Do to the fact that I can't think of anything to take a picture of or write about it is time to pull out the old pics. So enjoy the pics from Black's Cliff from the 50's and 60's. John the Groomer guy tells me... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_614" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Poe's winter weather report.... IT IS COLD!"][/caption] Poe would like to report the first sub zero temps last night. [caption id="attachment_615" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Is the lake safe?"][/caption] I probably could have done this test last week but it has been a little busy so Poe and I went down to see if his far back (way... Read more

Excerpt: The Calendar order has been made. Took some fanageling (is that a word?) with Walgreens over 63 dollars in postage. I got them to reduce the postage in half and I can keep the price of 15 for the calendars. I ordered 30 of them and have orders for 21. If anyone else wants one let me know. They should... Read more

Excerpt: Sorry for the delay in the announcement of a winner I was supposed to have it up by 9am on Saturday. We ended up on a hair raising trip down Hwy 70 in snow Saturday morning to get to a Swim Tournament in Phillips by 8:15 am. Roads were terrible and no internet connection. Tournament lasted til 5pm 92 events... Read more

Excerpt: Last call for Calendars. I have them at 25% off at Walgreens. I am making the order email info@blackscliff.com to get on the list. So far I have orders for 20 of them and they should get to you by Christmas. I hope to have them in envelopes and out my door by Friday... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_602" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="How many pounds are on the truck?"][/caption] Ok this is half of the aluminum cans crushed from the last year at the resort. We took them up to sell. Should have done this in August when the price was up today it was 20 cents a lb. Usually it is in the 30's or low 40's... Read more