Trillium in Bloom
If you know where to go, late May is an excellent time to get out to see the trillium in bloom here in the Keweenaw!
Last Sunday (May 22nd) our hiking group checked out one such location to the north of Hancock on the High Point and Trillium Trails at Churning Rapids. We covered these two trails as part of a better than 5-mile loop starting and ending on High Point Road. The blooms were particularly dense this year along the High Point Trail to the north of Brooks Road.
After seeing these abundant blooms we hiked into the beautiful Brooks Gorge where the trees were just starting to bud out in their luminous green color.
See more from the Brooks Gorge and the rest of this hike (which was absent mosquitoes and had only a few black flies present) by checking out my GoPro video on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at this link:
On the Friday previous to the hike we were invited to a dinner party hosted by Jeff Ratcliffe and Denise Hansen for a visiting Finnish delegation that was here in the Keweenaw to advance economic and trade relations and to explore partnership opportunities. I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting Olli Möttönen with Huliswood from my great-grandmother's ancestral village of Kiminki, where he lived 300m away from my grandmother's first cousin Jalo Pölkki whose family I met while traveling in Finland in 1973.
We had a great time getting acquainted with the entire delegation and we look forward to the opportunity to build on these connections!
On Tuesday morning after establishing a relationship with a new medical provider (my primary care physician retired in December), we stopped to explore the ruins of the Quincy Stamp Mill near Mason.
Since the weather was incredibly pleasant, we headed on down to the Nisula area to hike into a few of the waterfalls on the West Branch of the Sturgeon River. The gnats were out, but there mosquitoes were still no where to be seen! We started with a bushwhack into Hogger Falls where the river had a decent flow.
You can catch a video short of it on the Remote Workforce Keweenaw YouTube channel at this link: https://youtube.com/shorts/kyZ8obZHmmg?feature=share
We hiked down to West Branch Falls where I captured this long exposure:
We worked our way upstream to catch a couple more waterfalls before bushwhacking back out.
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