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    Midwest Spring Break Ideas (by an outdoor guide!)

    February 1, 2025

    Looking for midwest spring break ideas? Read this article for the best spring break destination for Midwest Adventurers!

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Maddy ✨ Midwest Adventure

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AD/ a magical midwest winter✨☃️ In order of AD/ a magical midwest winter✨☃️ In order of appearance… 1- cross country skiing at Swedetown in Calumet 2- HIKES & WATERFALLS: Canyon Falls, Eagle River Falls, O Kun-De-Kun Falls (pictured) 3- @takkasaunas on the Portage Canal 4- @mtu_winter_carnival 5- pizza at @theambassadorhoughton 6- historic bed and breakfast @lauriummanorinn 7- @nisubakerycafe @visit_keweenaw #visitkeweenaw #michigan #lakesuperior
craving a minnesota spring❄️🏕️🌈🌅🥾 It’s that time of the year when the sun is back and the snow is on the ground and I’m so very ready for the rivers to open up and to feel the crust of late winter snow under my boots and the feel of waterfall spray on my face and the taste of spring, right around the corner 🫶 📍Traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe Nation #minnesota #northshoremn #lakesuperior
This was out of my comfort zone!!!☀️ Last su This was out of my comfort zone!!!☀️ Last summer, I started hosting/guiding group trips for the first time! I’m a long time (since 2018) sea kayaking guide and throughout the years I’ve had a lot of people ask if I’d ever consider running trips through social media and I was suppppppper hesitant for a long time— I sort of thought it would be best to keep my real life and online life separate, always. I feel like I’m really different in person from online. But last winter people kept asking if I ran custom trips like that and I decided that I guide for strangers, there’s no real reason I can’t guide for people who found me online and… They were honestly the best trips I’ve ever run and been a part of. In June, I hosted a women’s guided climb (I don’t climb lol!) with @climbforged , a small and local Minnesota outfitter and it was a BLAST. The vibes were incredible and it was such a cool experience to see all of these women who wanted to try something in new in the outdoors come together and cheer for each other (and for me, bc I am terrible at climbing!) After that, I guided two overnight sea kayaking trips in the Apostles, my home turf with @chicas_abroad , though the two trips couldn’t have been more different— one with the wildest weather ever and one with the calmest I’ve seen the lake and a tailwind the whole way— both of the trips where incredible in their own way. I thought I would really struggle to guide and host trips like this but I didn’t. They just turned out to be a really cool way to guide and hang out with a bunch of women who I have a lot in common with, and who have a lot in common with each other. This summer, I’ll be hosting/guiding… JUNE 22: Rock Climbing @ Interstate State ParkJUNE 24-29: Apostles Sea Kayaking AUGUST 6-10: San Juan Islands Kayak, Hike, Whale Watch AUGUST 22-25: BWCA Canoe, Hike, Sauna Check out the current trips for this summer at my profile link // guided trips and events! Email me at hello@madelinemarquardt.com with questions, I’m more than happy to help— email is pretty much always better than DMs where questions tend to get lost!
this trend but you’ve always been self-critical🫠🤷🏼‍♀️ when this trend started coming across my feed I had to laugh, because my younger self and I are pretty different, and I can’t be the only one who feels this way, who feels more than a few complicated feelings about her younger self.
February blues on Lake Superior🫶🏻❄️🥾🌊 some detail shots pulled from an SD card I’d forgotten about, some old rejects I decided I didn’t hate, some shots of snow piles in the parking lot in pretty light. 📍Ancestral homelands of the Anishinaabe Nation
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