Knowlton Creek - Spirit
Mountain
Spirit Mountain, Duluth, Minnesota
The FIM Trial Championships were rolling
through this location last weekend, and the creek got
seriously degraded from that event. There are massive
erosion tracks that have been created where the cycles
went where they should never have gone. As much as I enjoyed
the Moto Trials,
there are areas of this creek that are permanently damaged
and it is rather severe in several places. Actual runoff
feeder streams changed courses and are digging deep holes
all along Knowlton Creek. Kind of a bummer, because this
is a beautiful creek bed. I started at the top of the
creek at exactly 7:00 PM, and finished this photo series
at 9:45 PM and hiked back up. It took me 35 minutes at
a steady pace to get back to my vehicle. It was much easier
going down than going back up, I kid you not!
All of these photos were shot it RAW format,
converted to .TIF with zero compression, and then converted
with Photoshop to web files seen here. They start as 3072
pixels x 2048 pixels, and are about 7 MB in file size.
I try to keep them under 200k in file size when I make
them web-ready.
June
10, 2005
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