Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvriusFDW4

OK Brian the Slackline Master won but I risked more.

Here’s how I did it.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcGyTA2nJw

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8tQMdTSy8

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQiTelYDcUA

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwahk1r2xsw

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxKX3PPK_M

Pushing my camera through the ice at Stoney Point a few days ago.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWbO6j6_FDQ

Final, scored version of something I’ve released excerpts of over time.

Four harrowing stories from one of Lake Superior’s perilous inlets, as told through the magic of toys.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQCnmJnBG-8

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VY6X1C1-E

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjSoedTq-X4

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNo5Vne07o

People’s Free Duluth Skate Rink now closed for the season, obliterated by snowpacalypse. Here we see it in its heyday, as well as its ignominious conclusion.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBEqTKyCac

I wasn’t going to let a few inches of snow stop me from skating. I knew there was nothing but smooth ice under there. If you’ve got skates and feel like you missed your chance to skate the Big lake this year, here’s the only skate-able ice right now, expanded more since this video was taken. Bring your shovel and add an addition. I’ll keep the rink maintained as long as these conditions last. (Although it’s 20 inches thick, high winds are predicted for Thursday-Friday so we’ll see, use at own risk haha.) Location is off the Lakewalk just shy of the Vietnam Memorial.

UPDATE: Closed for the season, obliterated by snowpacalypse.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4zxoMMrF8

Skated to the Duluth Polar Bear Plunge. Asked a nice gentleman from the Fire Department if the ice of the outer harbor was safe to skate and he said, “It’s 20 inches thick, that’s strong enough to hold a train. Have fun.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5iP6lDD8U

Although they don’t exhibit the profusion of life of ocean reefs, Lake Superior’s basaltic rock formations naturally evoke a sense of sunken, megalithic cities. That is why I wear the raiment of the King of Atlantis.