Hello! From Minnesota's north shore so we
are up here at the Judge C.R. Magney State Park today and we are hiking
Devil's Kettle whew we haven't done this one for
a long time so we're excited because it's a
nice challenging one there's like 200 plus steps
2.5 ish miles round trip so it's gonna be a good hike today to start
off our morning and i don't know if you can hear it but there's a river behind
me you might be able to hear it so yeah
it's gonna be awesome it's a beautiful day it's like
70s today so it's like sweatshirt weather so
not sweatshirt yeah look at him no such a problem
but i got mine and that's how we roll so but anyways so let's take on devil's
kettle all right so we are currently parked
right there and then we're just going to take
this trail up to the falls so that's the map of this park
not too huge but it has devil's pedal the trail to
devil's kettle is part of the superior hiking trail
and it is about one mile ish one way so um i've read it's about 2.5
miles is what most people track on their phones so
let's go
so today is july 24th beautiful beautiful day
middle of summer here but when you're on the north shore it's cool so it's
comfortable up here so thankful for the nice weather today
so our plan for today after
we get through devil's kettle we are going to be going
to hike Mount Josephine so we're excited we've never done that that's a brand new
one for us and then after the Mount Josephine
hike we are going to be going up to Grand Portage
and see the tallest waterfall in minnesota
so we're excited we have been a Grand Portage i just
don't remember if we ever went inside the waterfall which
I can't imagine we would do something like that but i just don't remember
so we will see but yeah so lots of hiking today
here on the north shore and we have a beautiful day to do it so
follow along as we explore this beautiful
area of Minnesota
so far this trail is really nice i don't know if you can hear the river but
we're walking right along the river here so
yeah good we got a little stairs coming up
but these aren't the serious stairs when we get to the serious stairs
i'm not sure
so i just posted a video about how we just got our Minnesota State Park
passports so we're officially part of the passport
club here at the Minnesota state park system
and this will be our very first day park that we will getting
our first stamp for so stay tuned for that because once we're done hiking here
we're gonna go get our passport stamp i'm so excited about it
all right you guys we're coming up on the stairs
that are crazy here it is all right hon going down is
gonna be easy but coming back up that's the fun part are you ready ready
all right let's do it all right
all right we just made it down the stairs now there's this nice little
boardwalk goes downhill but it's not stairs
i hope i'm not scaring you because it's you can totally do it if you're
okay with stairs but oh it's getting louder
the water is getting really loud
oh yeah
so this is not devil's kettle this is just one of the falls
um from the river i hope you can hear me but it's really going and it's misting
so i'm getting wet right now wow i didn't expect it to be this much
water wow it's beautiful
my hair is like wet and we saw a snake oh gross yeah it was like right behind
me i didn't see it
thank lord i didn't see that little guy
wow very cool
all right almost to devil's kettle 700 more feet
here's the fun stuff now we need to go up the stairs
to devil's
all kettle
so i don't know if you see this uh waterfall here
it's like going into a hole well i guess researchers did
some looking into where that water is really going and there's like an
underground river somehow that it's kind of
disappearing into and then it must like come back out somewhere
so yeah that's pretty cool but this is devil's kettle we made it
all right we are making our way down to devil's kettle for another view
here's the top of the waterfall and if you see right
here that waterfall goes right into a hole
that's pretty cool so there's where the waterfall starts
we're just walking past the falls right now
just a little bit we're not gonna go too
far
ah that's pretty
so if you watch my Temperance River vlog i said how
some of the river areas really reminded me of Alaska well
this does too wow
so
we're making our way back just came back down those stairs and now
the other set of stairs is coming up that's going to be fun ready to do the
stairs hun i think so let's do it
i'm starting to feel it working on those glutes
that's what it's all about all right hun how was the stairs it wasn't bad
no we did it many years ago and we thought it was so awful
yeah we we're just lazy i think it's so true i'm pretty sure we go we're
like funny yeah pretty sure kids we just were saki
hikers back then it wasn't bad at all we psyched
ourselves up for nothing good job honey
we started the hike at 9:34am and it is exactly
11 o'clock so yeah hour and a half for a round trip to the devil's kettle
and back so honey what do you think should we
have lunch or should we let's do it take on mount josephine lunch lunch okay
he's always ready to eat we got up at 3:30. i know
that's how we roll with these day trips we get up at 3:30 out of the house by 4:30
the day we get back about 9-10pm at night
it's perfect do it it's worth it it is oh my gosh look at what the waterfall
did in my hair i apologize i'm sorry everyone i look
like a mess now all right let's go find a spot by the
water to eat you guys we almost forgot to get our
very first park stamp and our passport gotta go do that oh my god how did i
almost forget that all right let's do this are you close
all right there it is stamp number one honey how do you feel we just stamped
our passport so cool and this is lunch spot
we are down at grand portage and the entire bay is cloudy it's so
weird
cool all right all right so i'm thinking a little
change of plans for today just because there's so much fog here in
the harbor of grand portage i think we might just go to our state
park um first and then do mountain justine but it's
clearing as we're sitting here so i'm just going to see how this looks or
we might do it they had two mountains just hang first i don't know
we'll see but right now i'm hungry so i'm gonna eat
there's a glue sprayed in front of us they just keep hanging out right in
front of us all right so vince chose the ship's ahoy
so let's see are these better than oreo so good let's see
i haven't had him since i was a kid
they're good but what does that mean but oreos
can't go wrong with oreos i mean come on what did you say
i don't know maybe the oreos i win oreo's all the way
all right lunch was awesome we're just hanging with the geese now they're all
they're all back there they're preening but anyways so i think what we're gonna
do i think we're gonna go to grand portage state park right now
and see if any of the fog clears out here because it's still
pretty foggy and i want to make sure once we get up to
the top of Mount Josephine it will be clear
so with that said thank you guys so much for watching our devil's
kettle and judge magney state park adventure today the memory of when we
hiked that so many years ago was worse than it really was it wasn't
bad at all so go on yeah so be sure go do the hike go see
devil's kettle it's awesome beautiful beautiful trail even though
there's quite a bit of stairs you will love it
if you have any questions comment below and stay tuned for the rest of our vlogs
because i'll be splitting this video up and then you can go watch those
so we will see you guys in the next vlog bye guys
you