11/4/13 – The most common question that we get during the summer season is “What do you do in the winter?” The answer is that we have to shut everything down, count everything, put everything away and then say goodbye to our wonderful seasonal crew members.
Once it is down to just the two of us, we have more than enough work to do taking care of the business and preparing for the next season. However, we do have a little more time for hiking, skiing and relaxation.
Here are a few pictures of activity in the early off-season. – Bill

Meg brushes snow and leaves off a Kevlar canoe before we put it indoors for the winter.

A parade of canoes in the snow.

Cindy and I standing up the canoes.

Canoes always look much bigger when the are inside.
Here are three angles of the same golden tamarack tree on our daily hike with the dogs:

Tamarack tree are conifers that lose their needles every year.

Cindy, commenting on high the water is for this late in the season.

Tamarack tree silhouetted against the November sky.

Roy cools off after chasing a rabbit around the campground. (The rabbit was not harmed.)
Here is this week’s edition of the Cook County West End News from WTIP, North Shore Community Radio.