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1/5 Ice climbers laugh at danger ... and love the photo ops

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published January 5, 2016 at 1:56 PM CST
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Lucas Kramer climbs at "Casket Quarry"
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Lucas Kramer climbs at "Casket Quarry"
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Lucas Kramer climbs at "Casket Quarry"
©Hansi Johnson

There's a perfectly good, unassuming reason why ice climbers call one of their favorite climbing locations "Casket Quarry," but you still get the sense that they enjoy the sense of foreboding the name conveys.

Will it still be as popular when it's a Duluth city park (and probably has a new name)?

For more information on the Casket Quarry project and details about the 1st Annual Duluth Ice & Mixed Fest in February, click here.
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Environment & Outdoors Northland Morning InterviewsLucas KramerIce ClimbingCasket QuarryDuluth Park
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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