Isle Royale Pictures - Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 08:29 PM

first week in august a group of friends, my brother, and i went to isle royale for a week of backpacking. for those who dont know, isle royale is in lake superior about 50 miles north west of copper harbor in the UP.

i promised pictures, so here they are...

1) snowmobile parking sign at Michigan Tech. Univ. in the keweenaw
2) Sign
3) Snow Scale..try and find the arrow from last years snowfall comparison
4) Moose - literally 10' from us on the trail
5) we decided to camp along the lake one night

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 08:33 PM

more...

1) trail on the island - wood plank to protect undergroth
2) yours truely w/ his sf.com shirt

3) trail pic
4) trail pic
5) early morning pic

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 08:39 PM

more...

1) pic was taken about 10:30pm
2) lake superior
3) island off the coast
4) night picture
5) trail pic

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 08:58 PM

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1) trail pic
2) on isle royale jumping into 56 degree lake superior water

3) honker
4) honkers at sun down
5) light house in copper harbor

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 09:12 PM

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1) clif jumping - 30' to water
2) duckies
3) isle royal queen ferry. one of three ferries. the queen leaves from copper harbor. the other leaves from MN, and the third leaves from houghton/hancock in the keweeneaw
4) group photo

PolarisINDY500 · 08-29-2007, 09:33 PM

here's a map of the island and where we hiked...

the first is an overall map of the island. from copper harbor we arrived in rock harbor.

the second is a blown up map of the rock harbor area

Monday we hiked from rock harbor along the lake to three mile, then along the lake to daisy farm

Tuesday we kiked from daisy farm to Mt Ojibway, along the ridge to Mt Franklin, and then to three mile.

Wednesday we did a day hike from three mile to suzys cave and around.

Thursday we hiked from three mile back to rock harbor, then hiked from rock harbor all the way to scovlle point and back.

Friday we rented a boat and drove to rasberry island, hiked rasberry island. then drove the boat to three mile then back to rock harbor.

**smallengineguy** · 08-30-2007, 06:32 AM

Sounds like an absolutely awesome time! Thanks for sharing!

PolarisINDY500 · 08-30-2007, 10:15 AM

thanks, and yes it was. i already want to go back.

tamacat · 08-30-2007, 10:17 AM

Nice pics. The pics of the lake make me want to go fishing.

PolarisINDY500 · 08-30-2007, 12:07 PM

^ the ranger III, the other ferry which leaves from houghton/hancock has the ability to take 19' or less pleasure boats piggy back.

there were a few pleasure boaters and fisherman on the island. one fisherman had a few lakers in his box. good size too.

SnowRida · 09-03-2007, 07:22 PM

Sounds lke a great time! Thanks for sharing the pics. Did you have any problems with animals trying to get your food?

Rider X · 09-03-2007, 10:41 PM

Those were great pics, the sun setting in the second group was awesome!!

PolarisINDY500 · 09-04-2007, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by SnowRida

Sounds lke a great time! Thanks for sharing the pics. Did you have any problems with animals trying to get your food?

since we had to carry our garbage with us, because there are no trash cans, no we didnt have a problem....untill the last night. we accidently left a weeks worth of trash outside our "cabin" and at like 1:00am we hear rustling. we all thought it was one of us messing with our sleeping bags so we started pointing the finger at eachother. then we hear it again. well, i was by the door and i opened it up and shined my flashlight out the door. well there goes a red fox with our garbage bag in this mouth. he went off in the trail and ripped it open. needless to say a 30' long garbage trail was strewn about and we had to pick it up. at the time it wasnt verry funny, but looking back it was hilarious!!!

I_R_Josh · 09-04-2007, 04:16 PM

awesome pictures.

PolarisINDY500 · 09-04-2007, 04:57 PM

^ thanks...

there was some 400 pictures taken, and unfortunately, i cant share them all. i had to pick out some of the good ones that highlighted our trip.

rider x - my bro took that picture on his 7.1 cannon. makes for an awesome background on your desktop.

SnowRida · 09-05-2007, 03:26 AM

That pic would be nice to frame and hang in my game room.

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PolarisINDY500 · 09-05-2007, 09:23 AM

do you want a full size pic? i can email you one.

SnowRida · 09-06-2007, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by PolarisINDY500

do you want a full size pic? i can email you one.

That would be great PI!