Stand Up Paddle Boards are on display in the store and the staff has been out in the East Bay trying them out. Yes, the water is cold but once you get the hang of the boards, all that gets wet are your feet so it is not as bad as it sounds. I was...
Read moreSpring has sprung, and the fishing boats and canoes are starting to fill up our parking lot again. But perhaps the surest sign of all that summer is on its way is our kayak tours. They’ll be starting up again on the big lake (Lake Superior)this...
Read moreWondering what’s going on at Stone Harbor Wilderness Supply right now? Well, the skis and snowshoes are gone, and in are the canoes, kayaks and (new for this year!) stand up paddle boards. Also new this year are Big Agnes sleeping bags and...
Read moreHere at Stone Harbor, we’ve been planning for summer for the last few weeks. But last weekend, Mother Nature showed that she still has other plans. Another 8-10 inches of snow fell onto the 2-4 foot base we already had on the trails. The...
Read moreEach spring on the North Shore, steelhead trout run up the rivers to spawn. A few weeks later, they return to Lake Superior, where they remain until the following year. With such a short window to pursue these silver bullets, it’s no wonder why...
Read moreIt’s almost Spring — a season of transition here in Grand Marais. You would think that as visitor traffic slows due to it being between seasons and we see fewer people through the store on a daily basis, everyone would have lots of...
Read more“You know this is your race to lose.” “Don’t say that.” I replied to Odin, my friend and competitor. We were at the vet check for the Wolf Track Sled Dog Classic in Ely, Minnesota. Sure we had a fast team, but eight of the ten dogs had just raced...
Read moreSled dogs are remarkable creatures. Just two days after returning home from the Beargrease the dogs were all bouncing back. The season was not even half over and we had been through so much. After the Beargrease the team needed to convalesce...
Read moreIt has been another busy week at Stone Harbor. Tuesday was a big day — as you’ll see in the pictures below (click on each photo to view a larger version). In the afternoon Frank and Sherri brought out six of their sled dogs, and we...
Read moreTheir look is burned in my memory, a combination of fear and trust. The dogs were all sick. Their magnificent sleek bodies were shutting down. Almost two in the morning and the temperature had dropped to 25 below. What was normally a comfortable...
Read moreHere’s a mid-winter update from store owner Jack Stone… The past few weeks have been exciting for those of us at Stone Harbor Wilderness Supply. Some of us have been living vicariously through others — through friends of ours. We watched...
Read moreFrank Moe our resident musher gave us an overview of his last sled dog race: Thanks to Stone Harbor for the great gear that we used for our 2nd place finish in last weekend’s White Oak Sled Dog Classic. The Princeton Tec Extreme headlamp...
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