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Published June 29, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Chester Bowl pond is gone


Anna Arntsen (left), 10, and her friend, Makenzie Horrocks, 9, both of Duluth, explore a large gravel bed where the pond at Chester Bowl once was. Chester Creek flows by in the foreground. Recent flooding washed out part of a dam, allowing the pond to empty. In its place is the narrow channel of the creek and the gravel flat. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)

  • Anna Arntsen (left), 10, and her friend, Makenzie Horrocks, 9, both of Duluth, explore a large gravel bed where the pond at Chester Bowl once was. Chester Creek flows by in the foreground. Recent flooding washed out part of a dam, allowing the pond to empty. In its place is the narrow channel of the creek and the gravel flat. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • Wyatt Barber of Duluth pauses after making a snowboard run at Chester Bowl. In past years, downhill skiers and snowboarders at Chester Bowl used the frozen surface of a pond as a run-out area at the base of the ski hill. After recent flooding damaged a dam, the pond is no longer there. Photo courtesy Chester Bowl Improvement Club)
  • Thom Storm, executive director of the Chester Bowl Improvement Club, stands below the upper dam at Chester Bowl, part of which was carried away by recent flooding. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • This area at Chester Bowl, at the base of the ski lift, was once a wide pond, but after recent flooding that destroyed part of a dam, the pond is gone, replaced by a large gravel flat. The wide area of water in the foreground is there only because a temporary rock walkway was put in place across Chester Creek. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • Chester Creek now flows through the area of Chester Bowl where a pond existed before recent flooding. Now a large gravel flat up to 4 feet deep has replaced the area once occupied by the pond. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • The top 30 inches of this stone dam, dating to the 1930s, was destroyed by recent flooding after heavy rains, When the dam was compromised, it allowed the pond at Chester Bowl to wash out. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)