Last of the Keweenaw pics

Well, so here's the rest of the story. Since we weren't able to make it to Isle Royale as we planned due to our wheelbearing issue on the way up, holding us up overnight. So, after we fished away the rest of the day on Friday, on Saturday we went exploring the very northern end of the Keweenaw on the 2 tracks. Copper Harbor isn't the farthest point on the Keweenaw, just the end of civilized roads and the last village. It's about 8 or 9 miles out of Copper Harbor on 2 tracks to High Rock Bay, the the farthest north and east you can go on the Keweenaw. Very remote there, I can only imagine how it would be during a storm. We fished in every river and every lake in the northern half on our 2 track excursion. We got back to the campground around 2 pm and hitched to the boat and dumped it in Lake Superior at the Copper Harbor state harbor. What an experience!! It makes you feel so small!! We only had 4' waves, one could only imagine the storm swells that occur out there. So we took our little 19' boat out and around the Keweenaw and looked at the stuff we saw from the 2 tracks from the water's perspective. I unfortunately forgot my phone on the boat so I couldn't get any pics of that. We finished out the day on Lake Superior in our boat, and then came back just before dark to the campground where we enjoyed a nice campfire. The next morning we packed up all of our stuff and hit the road for home around 10 AM. After a 10ish hour drive, we arrived home. Can't wait to try again next year!!

Ross

PS: all of these pictures are of and on the way to High Rock Bay. I found the triangle shaped rock along Lake Superior at High Rock Bay. Anyone think it may be a tomahawk or axe head that was smoothed out by the lake? It immediately caught my eye as all of the other rocks are round and smooth as shown in the pictures

Great pics... beautiful country there. Sounds like a great adventure regardless of the troubles on the way up.

You must of missed this sign.

The rock looks too perfect to be natural.

Thanks for the pics, Ross...It's beautiful country...

Beautiful place. Been up there a few times on a snowmobile, never in the summer. The trail was always very bumpy on the snowmobile. Glad the bugs weren't to bad, they can be a real treat. My dad used to say about that area: "9 months of winter and 3 months of poor sledding".

Great pictures of a senic area of the state. Look at it this way about the wheel bearing it may have been a warning from a higher power to keep you safe. I really hope you do reconsider taking a 19 foot oat that far out into one of the great lakes. I have fished Lake Mich all my life and Huron many times. When a storm comes in it gets rough fast. I had a 25 foot boats and have been 10 miles out on a good day several times but a few times I have been 3 miles out and a storm came in where when I got to the pier heads the swells around us and the boat at the bottom all you could see was a wall of water on each side. I for one just want you to be around to keep posting your great pictures

That's what my dad said about N MN!

Was up there last weekend, watched the Ranger pullback into dock Saturday. I once walked out to High Rock Bay from where the 1/2 ton truck could no longer hurdle the wash gullies in the road, about the last 4 miles. That was how I discovered my fallen arches.

I love it up there in 2 of the 4 seasons - spring and fall. You know, in between winter and blackfly seasons?

We actually had absolutely no problem with black flies or mosquitoes, never even saw one, and I remember commenting to my buddy about that exact thing

Thanks Ivan! Well, we had watched the weather and wave reports leading up to the trip, and they all said 1-2' and clear and calm. Well, when we were out on Saturday, there was 4'+ and we had a severe thunderstorm that night. On the way home Sunday morning, we guessed the waves were 6-7', which we would have been coming through if we had went to the island. I've been on the lakes a lot, but get seasick terrible, so I can usually only go for a little while before I lay down and try to sleep. Nothing works to stop it either, I guess I'm just real sensitive to motion sickness.

Haha, like everyone else says, what road sign?