Making it Memorable!
Having family in town gave us another great opportunity to play tour guides! While there was not near enough time to get everywhere we wanted to go, the objective was to create a memorable experience. Fortunately, the Keweenaw’s beauty makes creating indelible experiences easy!
You cannot go wrong heading up toward Copper Harbor. Our first stop on this day would be Eagle River where we took in the view of Eagle River Falls.
A couple of miles farther up M-26 we stopped at Jacobs Creek Falls and visited the nearby Jam Pot to procure some of their awesome muffins! We snarfed them down as we made our way along dunes skirting Lake Superior’s Great Sand Bay. We hiked down the staircase through the dunes to the lakeshore to engage in the requisite rock skipping!
A spur from M-26 would lead us up and over Brockway Mountain where we enjoyed spectacular panoramic views of Lake Superior as well as the Keweenaw’s interior.
After dropping down into Copper Harbor from Brockway Mountain, we ventured southward from town and into the woods in search of the 300 to 500 year old eastern white pine at Estivant Pines. The loop hikes through these giant pine trees exceeding 100 feet in height bring you a whole new perspective about your place in nature!
Back down in Copper Harbor we motored out past US 41’s northern terminus to the east to hike out to Horseshoe Harbor. This aptly named harbor, given its shape, is protected by a huge conglomerate reef. The scramble to the top is made worthwhile by the views it affords of both Lake Superior and the harbor’s rocky beach!
Check out my GoPro video of this Keweenaw adventure on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at this link:
A crazy thing that happened last week was getting stung between my nose and eye while on our Keweenaw Running Group trail run on Time Trial at MTU. I didn’t get a license plate, but it had to be either a yellow jacket or some type of ground nesting bee. As it turned out, I was probably lucky as three runners following us were stung multiple times. This hasn’t been a common experience, but, when it does, it always seems to be in July.
After attending the Township Board meeting on Wednesday evening to give the planning commission report, Thursday was spent weedwhacking the Historic Trail, clearing an access point to the trail for kayakers to access the trail from the mill’s hot pond, and pulling weeds from the boardwalk.
On Friday morning Brian Waters, the Chassell Township Planning Commission Chair, and I installed the topper for the Historic Trail trailhead sign as well as four key directional signs along the trail.
Friday afternoon I headed out with my friends Mark and Steve for a waterfall adventure that was cut short due to a vehicle issue. We did make it as far as the huge glacial erratic south of L’Anse, but we turned back there.
Julie and I ended up having a very nice dinner that evening with our friends Mark and Lynette who were up from downstate.
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