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The Gunflint Trail in far northeastern Minnesota is a 57-mile national scenic byway through the Boundary Waters between Canada and the U.S., with more than a million acres of woods and water untouched and unaffected since the glaciers melted and created over a thousand crystal-clear lakes. Local lore suggests the Ojibwe people had developed a footpath--the forerunner of the trail--beginning at Biiwaanag Zaaga'igan (Gunflint Lake) and extending at least to Gichi Biitoobig (Grand Marais), on the shore of Lake Superior (Gichi Gami), by 1800. Around this time, the area got its name from the flint, or chips of chert, that French traders would gather for their flintlock firearms at the lakeshore where the path began. On our last evening exploring here we drove out nearly to the end of the trail, at least to where the pavement turned to gravel, to capture this sunset image of Sea Gull Creek meandering west to Sea Gull Lake, one of the largest "small" lakes in the region. 6