Comments on: Walking around the lakes https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/ Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:30:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521223 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:30:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521223 Actually I don’t. I learned my glacial geomorphology by a combination of working with geologists and digging in the features. with shovels and backhoes.

]]> By: Mal Adapted https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521222 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:46:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521222

Mal, that is a nice reference, but it does have one element that ends up being misleading (but still is seen in most similar sources).

I confess I just did a quick ‘oogle for a convenient reference. I’m from Wisconsin, and I’m somewhat familiar with the influence of glaciation on surface hydrology, but it’s been awhile. Do you have a reference you like?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521221 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:25:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521221 my wife takes a bike ride most evenings and comes back with the report on how fast she made it around Lake Nokomis.

Inverse to the number of walkers and joggers on the trail, I’m sure!

Mal, that is a nice reference, but it does have one element that ends up being misleading (but still is seen in most similar sources).

The “mature” drainage really does not look like that depicted. The “mature” drainage shown in that reference is a drainage with a former high water flow followed by a shift to a smaller flow and infilling.

A mature drainage would be … well, like Minnesota without the glaciers. Badlands, or a very wide and low plain, or a canyon like the Grand Canyon.

]]> By: Mal Adapted https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521220 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:12:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521220 Minnesota’s pre-glacial drainage patterns were mature, but the icesheets left them deranged. That explains a lot, heh.

]]> By: EricFromMinneapolis https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521219 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:16:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521219 The lakes here sure are nice! I’ve walked, run, canoed and kayaked around many (Calhoun, Harriet, Nokomis, Isles) in Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall.

A new way of seeing the lakes that I’ve discovered is stand-up paddle boarding. You can rent a paddle board (surf board and extended length paddle) from the stand at Lake Calhoun for $15 an hour. The boards are very sturdy and even a beginner could figure it out in a matter of minutes. Sure, I fell a number of times… but I just couldn’t get enough of that fish tasting water!

After you’re done stop at the Tin Fish for a variety of different fish dinners and treats.

Heck, maybe even Julio (the bike ninja!) will be hanging out and fixing bikes for free!

]]> By: scidog https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521218 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:14:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521218 this is too much,a real major,responsible blog that talks about my South Minneapolis.not a local,free,neighborhood “newspaper” but a big time science blog.anyway we walk the lakes with and without the dogs.my wife takes a bike ride most evenings and comes back with the report on how fast she made it around Lake Nokomis.
on the subject of lakes,shorelining by canoe the lakes in the Boundary Waters is an experience that few will ever have the chance to have but take it from me that is the way to really get a feeling for the lakes and land.on your open water side the view may go off until the far shore is a faint greenish line while on the land side only a few feet away you could be paddling thru a Zen garden of moss and twisted pines or along a smooth shore of Graywhacky billions of years old.
i could run this on and on but i’ll stop at what i recall on a book about chaos theory and how all the irregularities where water meets every rock,driftwood,pebble,log and its odd bits and shapes and on and on would add up to the distance to the stars.

]]> By: Silver Fox https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521217 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:30:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521217 I’ve walked around at least three lakes, maybe one or two others. Nice thoughts on imagining the contours beneath the water. I like to do that when boating, easiest to do in a canoe.

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521216 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:46:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521216 Minnesota doesn’t have a lot of lakes, any more than Michigan does. We just have a whole lot of very large and occasionally very deep mud puddles, left behind by glaciers.

Glaciers were a lot like your average corporation. They just steamrolled through and to hell with the mess they left behind.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521215 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:24:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521215 The identity of Lake Woebegon is a mystery, but yes. However, you will hen have to endure being the seed for a plethora of low level gossip as to why you are walking around the lake.

]]> By: Cromercrox https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521214 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:21:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/31/walking-around-the-lakes/#comment-521214 Can you walk round Lake Woebegone?

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