Question of the day: How fast do you get soaked when watching High Falls on the Pigeon River in ONE second?? I answered that question yesterday. Given the fast snow and ice melt occuring, High Falls is experiencing record flow. The answer is FAST!
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These two photographs were taken less than two seconds apart (camera burst mode). Notice how the number of water droplets have exploded on the camera lens (Google Maps Link: High Falls). As a teenager I often helped friends with their store right at the Canadian border on busy summer weekends. I would fish in a rowboat right beneath this waterfall, but that was always in August! 
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eMail subscribers make certain you watch my short video I took of the falls yesterday morning (Wednesday, May 11th). All the lakes in off the Gunflint are still socked in with ice, and back in the deep boreal forest there is easily 1+ feet of snow on the ground. I had to turn around twice with my Subaru Outback (all wheel drive) on back roads which were impassable … creeks now rivers flowing over the road, and a combination of deep snow / mud on the dirt roads.
Here are a few more random photographs I took on my drive and three additional videos: (video links for email subscribers: Driving the Backroads | South Brule River Bridge at Sunrise | No Name Lake Socked in with Ice)(river and lake videos have commentary by me … all short)
Approaching civilization … I stayed at the Hungry Hippie Hostel and would recommend it w/o reservation.
A no name lake (smaller and shallower) … still socked in with ice. These smaller lakes normally go ice free before the big, deep lakes. No black ice yet.