Inclement weather has hindered a search for two men who went over a waterfall in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota.
Bad weather Tuesday was hampering the search for two men who went over a waterfall while fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota over the weekend. St. Louis County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Nate Skelton told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the cloud cover was too low for aerial surveillance and up to 2 inches of rain was anticipated, so the next two days were not promising.
Superior National Forest officials closed trails, campsites, portages and bodies of water in the area, to assist in the search. Authorities have identified the missing men as Jesse Melvin Haugen, 41, of Cambridge, and Reis Melvin Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes. They went over Curtain Falls, between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake on the Minnesota-Ontario border while fishing in the area Saturday. The missing men were part of a group of five in two canoes.
Four of them were basically anchored at the top of the falls, fishing, which they’ve done in the past, and it sounds like one of them may have had an issue and the other one went to try to give some assistance and both canoes and four people went over the falls,' the sheriff told MPR
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