Here’s what’s going on. As I explained last week, Trestle Pine Knives will be a new tang stamp that will be a line of knives that I’ve found to be practical patterns that are made to use, not sit in a display box. Some will be existing patterns that will be slightly tweaked (with useful ‘tweaks’).
Having lived the majority of my adult life in Minnesota, the northern forests and lakes country have become a part of and shaped who I am. One of the lakes in the Arrowhead of Minnesota that has filled my life with some incredible memories of fishing and the outdoors is a lake called Trestle Pine.
I first started visiting this lake about 40 years ago when the primary access was a crude single lane trail following an old railroad grade. The grade ended at a narrow channel in the lake where the remnants of an old train trestle still stands in the water. It’s a gorgeous lake surrounded by miles and miles of forest. We’ve shared this lake with family and friends creating countless memories for all of us. I can’t begin to guess how many miles I’ve paddled on that lake or how many trout were caught over the years.
The trestle and railroad grade is one of many that were built to haul logs out of the old growth forests that were being harvested in the late 1800’s. Nearly all of these short spur lines were abandoned by the early 1900’s when the forests had finally been harvested. Some of the abandoned grades became hiking trails, fire roads and provided access to remote lakes.
The logs were hauled to local sawmills for processing by rail, pulled by horses in the winter or floated on the rivers or lakes in warm weather.
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