(technically Day 6)Three Mile Campground to Rock Harbor Campground (and the Island’s only open Store to buy a propane/butane stove canister)Rock Harbor Campground back to Three Mile Campground 5.7 miles hiked
Michael:
At about 2:00 a.m. I was startled awake by a moving rock.
From 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. I tossed and turned in fits of anxiety [...]
Archive for May, 2004
Isle Royale National Park: Day Five
Posted in National Parks on May 31, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Isle Royale National Park: Day Four
Posted in National Parks on May 30, 2004 | 2 Comments »
West Chickenbone Lake to Three Mile 12.1 miles hiked
Gab:
“My name is Gabrielle and I am invincible.”
Someone named Brian Tomasetti taught me this mantra when I was still in treatment. Nearly twenty years later, I still carry it with me and when I remember to say it, it charges my entire day. We decided this morning [...]
Isle Royale National Park: Day Three
Posted in National Parks on May 29, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Hatchet Lake Campground to West Chickenbone Campground 7.9 miles hiked
Michael:
At 7:00 p.m. today, two hikers walked past our idyllic campsite along West Chickenbone Lake and said hello.
They were the first people we had seen in a day and a half. In that same time period we had seen six moose up close and personal. We [...]
Isle Royale National Park: Day Two
Posted in National Parks on May 28, 2004 | 3 Comments »
South Lake Desor Campground to Hatchet Lake Campground
8.1 miles hiked
Gab:
This morning I realized how long it has been since I last hiked with a pack on my back. Three years? Four years? It has been a very long time.
I woke up with aching hips and shoulders because I had been wearing the waist belt [...]
Isle Royale National Park: Day One
Posted in National Parks on May 27, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Grand Portage to Isle Royale (via Voyageur II)
25 miles
Windigo to South Lake Desor Campground
11.3 miles hiked
Michael:
Look at a map of Michigan, the Great Lakes or even the United States as a whole. Now look closer, focus in on Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Look in the northwest corner. There [...]
Isle Royale National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Backcountry, Canoeing, great campsites, Hiking, Isle Royale, Isolation, Lake Superior, Michigan, Moose, National Park on May 26, 2004 | 2 Comments »
in Lake Superior
Visited: May 26, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 49 of 353
Local Website
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WHAT IS IT?
The largest Island in the world’s largest freshwater lake. Isle Royale NP is a World Heritage Biosphere. Isle Royale is an incredible 99% wilderness. The 1% includes only the Rangers’ living quarters, a [...]
Picture Rocks National Lakeshore
Posted in National Lakeshore, tagged Bald Eagle, Lake Superior, Michigan, Sandstone, Waterfalls, Wildflowers on May 21, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Munising, Mich.
Visited: May 21, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 46 of 353
NPS Website
Want More? Read about both Gab’s and Michael’s terrific day on the Upper Peninsula
WHAT IS IT?
Area hugging Lake Superior’s southern shoreline for 40 miles resplendent with multi-hued sandstone cliffs, waterfalls, lighthouses, dunes and forests.
BEAUTY (8/10)
The Pictured Rocks are stunning 200-foot high sandstone cliffs, molded [...]
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
Posted in National Historical Park on May 19, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Vincennes, Ind.
Visited: May 14, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 44 of 353
Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A classical Greek-style memorial that commemorates both the defeat of the British at Fort Sackville (Vincennes) in February 1779 and the life of Indian fighter and American pioneer, George Rogers Clark.
Please do not be confused. George Rogers Clark did not forge the Lewis [...]
A Night At Mammoth Cave
Posted in National Parks, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, Louisville, Mammoth Cave on May 12, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
We woke up at the Fairfield Inn in East Louisville yesterday morning. Our plan was to head south to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site then head back north to Louisville. Maybe even catch a minor league baseball game. Everyone says such nice things about Louisville.
We went downstairs to take advantage of our free [...]
Mammoth Cave National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Caves, Geology, Kentucky on May 11, 2004 | 5 Comments »
in south-central Kentucky
Visited: May 11, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 42 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
To date, 365 miles of mapped passageways, the largest cave system in the World.
BEAUTY (9/10)
Every room and every passageway has a unique and striking beauty ranging from overwhelming awe to subtle grace and including everything in between. Each turn brings [...]
