Horseshoe Harbor Hike

Last Sunday our hiking group ventured up to Copper Harbor. After meeting at the visitor center in town, we drove out past the end of US 41 to take a little over 4-mile roundtrip hike to Horseshoe Harbor. Along the way we made a slight detour off the road we were hiking on to examine petroglyphs in a rocky outcrop. There is plenty of speculation about their age, but consider me a skeptic regarding those asserting them to be old.

Horseshoe Harbor is protected from Lake Superior by a huge conglomerate reef and a few rocky islands extending off of the reef’s eastern end. The harbor itself is true to its name as it presents a horseshoe shape. A scramble to the top of the reef provides excellent views of the harbor, the rocky islands extending eastward from the reef, and Lake Superior.

Looking westward from the easternmost part of the conglomerate reef.

Hiking westward over the top of the reef, you will find a few pine that have somehow found a way to gain a foothold in the rock. I am guessing some of these must be very old.

A small, narrow harbor located on the western end of the reef is a great place to find examples of stromatolites which are ancient fossilized bacteria.

Hiking back out we took in the awesome view back toward Copper Harbor and Brockway Mountain to the west.

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

Monday was spent knocking out my annual physical at the Aspirus Clinic in Laurium and having Keranen Well Service out to update parts on our wellhead.

Tuesday I focused on township and Remote Workforce Keweenaw related correspondence before getting out for a 5.25-mile solo run on the MTU Tolkien Trails. Afterwards, Julie and I grabbed some awesome sushi to go from Sky Sushi in Houghton.

Wednesday I engaged in correspondence related to Centennial Park and the Historic Trail signage, had SEMCO out to sniff out a gas leak in our garage, stopped by the Chassell Farmers Market at Centennial Park, and, since the Township Board meeting was moved to Monday, cut the grass.

Thursday morning we had Aire Care out to determine the needed repair to address the gas leak and to do some electrical work that was still in process from our garage construction project. Julie and I then headed down to the North Country Trail to knock out four more miles toward our #hike100NCT with an out-and-back hike from the Humpback Bridge out to the south of L’Anse.

There are a lot of cedar in this area along the Sturgeon River, but one of the coolest ones is this one that grows right over the top of a large boulder along the trail.

Even with the recent rain, the river was as low as we have recalled seeing it in awhile.

The elevation on this part of the trail is over 1,500 feet, so the recent colder nights in this area are bringing on the fall colors.

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

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