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Whew - I check this thing almost every day, but I haven't had the time to update. (Or, more appropriately, when I've had the time to update, I've spent it doing other things that are more interesting/important than updating LJ.)
Anyways, I went on this really great camping trip 2 weekends ago. The photos from it are tagged under my facebook, I would really recommend going there to experience the wonder of the views of Pictured Rocks & Tahquamenon Falls.
I guess I'll rewind and start from the beginning. I've been planning this trip for a while now, and finally Beaver + I set a date to go. I invited quite a few people - lots of people were wusses about it all, but I managed to convince Anton, Dave, and Sally to come up w/Beaver and I. Anyways, it ended up being the perfect size for camping - we had a fucking riot. We had 3 30 packs, a few fifths, some brownies, and McDonald's (if you want the McD's explained, just IM me).
We drove all the way to pictured rocks on Friday and set up camp - it was about a 6 hr. drive, maybe a bit more w/smoke breaks, etc... On Saturday we were alerted by a friendly DNR officer that we were camping illegally (well, to be honest, I already knew that we were camping illegally, but I played none-the-wiser to avoid the $175 fee + whatever else he would write us up for after searching our camp). So, he lead us to some state land that we were allowed to camp on - it was absolutely beautiful. The temperature was in the mid-60s or so throughout the weekend, though we did have a few spots of rain here & there - it mostly cleared up by Saturday morning.
Anyways, we went to a bunch of places. I think my favorite was the log slide, which was basically a 300ft. tall sand dune that was practically straight up & down. (That's a bit of an exaggeration, it was 300ft. of vertical elevation over a distance of 500 ft.) Pictured Rocks was pretty amazing - we stopped at Miner's Cove, which was pretty darn neat. The trees were all in color, which was absolutely breathtaking. I think you could probably see 10 miles down the coast of Lake Superior (though, according to Anton, the distance for everything was 30 miles...)
On our way back on Sunday, we stopped at Tahquamenon Falls, which is always impressive - especially in the fall. I absolutely love the sound of waterfalls - I want wherever I live to be next to one, it's just about the most supremely relaxing noise on the planet.
Oh, I almost forgot that we stopped at a smaller set of waterfalls called Mosquito Falls. The map said that it was a 1 mile hike to the falls, which was a complete and utter lie - it had to be somewhere around 3 miles to the falls by my best estimation. Now that I think of it, we should've used the GPS way, way more than we actually did, which was silly.
Okay, I'm tired of typing into this box.
Until I update again,
-Rico
P.S. Grad school is still hard.
Anyways, I went on this really great camping trip 2 weekends ago. The photos from it are tagged under my facebook, I would really recommend going there to experience the wonder of the views of Pictured Rocks & Tahquamenon Falls.
I guess I'll rewind and start from the beginning. I've been planning this trip for a while now, and finally Beaver + I set a date to go. I invited quite a few people - lots of people were wusses about it all, but I managed to convince Anton, Dave, and Sally to come up w/Beaver and I. Anyways, it ended up being the perfect size for camping - we had a fucking riot. We had 3 30 packs, a few fifths, some brownies, and McDonald's (if you want the McD's explained, just IM me).
We drove all the way to pictured rocks on Friday and set up camp - it was about a 6 hr. drive, maybe a bit more w/smoke breaks, etc... On Saturday we were alerted by a friendly DNR officer that we were camping illegally (well, to be honest, I already knew that we were camping illegally, but I played none-the-wiser to avoid the $175 fee + whatever else he would write us up for after searching our camp). So, he lead us to some state land that we were allowed to camp on - it was absolutely beautiful. The temperature was in the mid-60s or so throughout the weekend, though we did have a few spots of rain here & there - it mostly cleared up by Saturday morning.
Anyways, we went to a bunch of places. I think my favorite was the log slide, which was basically a 300ft. tall sand dune that was practically straight up & down. (That's a bit of an exaggeration, it was 300ft. of vertical elevation over a distance of 500 ft.) Pictured Rocks was pretty amazing - we stopped at Miner's Cove, which was pretty darn neat. The trees were all in color, which was absolutely breathtaking. I think you could probably see 10 miles down the coast of Lake Superior (though, according to Anton, the distance for everything was 30 miles...)
On our way back on Sunday, we stopped at Tahquamenon Falls, which is always impressive - especially in the fall. I absolutely love the sound of waterfalls - I want wherever I live to be next to one, it's just about the most supremely relaxing noise on the planet.
Oh, I almost forgot that we stopped at a smaller set of waterfalls called Mosquito Falls. The map said that it was a 1 mile hike to the falls, which was a complete and utter lie - it had to be somewhere around 3 miles to the falls by my best estimation. Now that I think of it, we should've used the GPS way, way more than we actually did, which was silly.
Okay, I'm tired of typing into this box.
Until I update again,
-Rico
P.S. Grad school is still hard.