THE PORKIES IN THE U.P. (aka Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan)

Since we arrived back in the U.S. just over a week ago, the weather has been very hot and humid, temperatures around 25 - 30oC, with sunshine most day and clammy nights! (For Terry and Sally - I will keep putting the temperatures on).
 

Union Bay Campground in the Porkies

Roy almost paddling in Lake Superior in the Porkies

 Moved east around Superior into the Upper Peninsula in Michigan where we stopped a couple of nights in the Porkies - the last extensive tract of old-growth hardwood and hemlock forest remaining in the Midwest. At nearly 60,000 acres, it is Michigan's largest state park and among the Midwest's largest wilderness areas.
To the native Ojibwa people, this chain of mountains rising from Lake Superior reminded them of kag, the porcupine.
They called the mountain range Kag-wadjiw (the Porcupine Mountains).
We did a 5 mile hike along the escarpment and saw the Lake of the Clouds, it sure was a wilderness, forest as far as you could see.
Not so good for hiking so we chose the high path. Got back just in time, we had an afternoon of warm rain!
Panic at teatime - laptop would not work! It finally decided to work again but it may be that we buy one here as it seems every time I turn it off it will not start up again properly, only works if I leave it on sleep but battery is so poor it wont last when we are travelling. See John - I knew I should have bought one before I left! Soo



Lake of the Clouds in the Porkies



lunch in the Porkies



Lake of the Clouds



Forest forever