Ice Caves

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You are standing on Lake Superior. The mighty inland ocean is solid underfoot. Ice to the horizon and back. Your fellow hikers are humbled to complete silence by the ice’s presence. You approach 200 foot tall formations on the side of a sandstone cliff. The hike stretches for miles, with each cave offering a unique frozen sculpture. The ice takes many forms in this landscape: clouded, smooth, splintered, colored by melting land, as clear as glass. It goes forever. And you are dropped in the middle of it to explore, reflect, and have an otherworldly encounter with nature.

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