Hike to the Top of Mt. Arvon

Over the last weekend, our friends Bob and Marian stopped in to see us on their way back to North Carolina from northern Minnesota. It had been eight years since they had been in the Keweenaw last and on that trip we gone out to Isle Royale with them. On this visit they would come along with us and our hiking group for a hiking adventure to the top of Michigan’s highest natural point, Mt. Arvon. This trailhead can be found a short distance off of the Ravine River Road where the climb begins to the summit.

The trail to the top is just over a mile and a half and climbs over 450 feet. The first portion of the trail follows a stream through a beautiful forest.

A waterfall can found at the first significant upward climb.

This lower tier can also be seen at this link to a video short on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at: https://youtube.com/shorts/pj7_PX3WbgI?si=gVYoTZjGVn_PUWmc

There are a couple of stream crossing on the hike where you need to watch your step, but overall the trail is easy to hike.

Once at the top we checked out the benchmark and took in the view to the northwest over Point Abbaye.

I hiked back on the road with Bob and Marian. The distance on the road is a bit longer and, if you take it, be sure to watch for vehicles as road it not particularly wide.

You can see my GoPro video from the hike on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at this link:

After the hike, we then drove to nearby Upper Letherby Falls on the West Branch of the Huron River. This waterfall is easily accessed from the Ravine River Road down a two-track.

We then bushwhacked downstream to Letherby Falls.

Monday night, Bob and I would get out to do some fishing on Portage Lake with Eero. It was rather breezy which was great for keeping down the mosquitoes. The small northern were hitting and we picked up four keeper walleyes.

You can see a short video from our evening of fishing on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at this link:

After Bob and Marian headed out on Tuesday morning, I would follow up by email with Dan Dowdy with the MDNR about the priorities for the rail-trail based upon the public input we had received on Facebook and at our last planning commission meeting. I then headed over to Maasto Hiihto where Mark Roberts, John Diebel, and I would meet with Cassie Abrams from the EGLE for our pre-application meeting on the permitting required for our planned culvert, boardwalk, and bridge construction projects for Trail 17.

We had an excellent meeting and received a very clear picture from Cassie about our next steps. I will start working on our application once she follows up with us in writing.

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