Ride to Freda

We finally got a halfway decent weekend, so I decided to make the most of it. The girlfriend and I took a nice cruise to Freda to check out the smelting ruins.

My Ride to Copper Harbor

So it was finally nice enough to venture out into the wild. Or so I thought. It was sunny and 60 degrees Saturday afternoon, by the time I returned it was 50 degrees an overcast. despite the cold it was nice ride. There's very little traffic this time of year even on a Saturday. I decided to play on the super twisty highway 26 between Eagle River and Copper Harbor. I took the direct route (straight up 41) rather than 203 and/or five mile point rd. (both of which I'll cover later) because it was cool out and I it was getting late. I decided to venture up Brockway Mountain on the way and head down 26 from Copper Harbor.

This is a waterfall in Eagle River

One of the bays on the way to Eagle Harbor

Brockway Mountain: on the way down













Here's Copper Harbor from Brockway Mountain












and another














This is a little roadside park just south of Copper Harbor












It's pretty neat and deserted at this time of year


















I caught a picture of a group of dear crossing the road near Eagle River











This is why this road is so great, the ups and downs and side to sides...











I can't wait to ride so that I can post more!

Where I've been so far

Here's a map of the roads I've traveled so far

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The roads in light green are one's I've ridden on my bike. The dark green roads are roads that I've driven on but not ridden.

(More of) Summer of 2007

For another look at 2007 here's my slide show.

Summary of 2007

Seeing as the weather is still pretty cool out (it always seems to get cold and rainy when I don't work), I figured I'd post some "best of" last summer's photos.


Houghton

Covered Road near Red Ridge

Delaware

Freda

Brockway Mountain near Copper Harbor

Highway 203 near Hancock

Hancock

Twin Lakes

Cliff Road near Pheonix
Highway 26 near Eagle Harbor
Ishpeming
New Bike on Trail 3
Trail 3 near Calumet
Trail 15 near Hubble
Getting stuck on Trail 15
Trail near Chassell
Trail near Freda in the rainy seasonSomewhere near Gay
It's been pretty cold out still but I can't wait for summer 2008 to take off!

An Introduction

I've recently become obsessed with travel. Particularly travel via motorcycle. My thoughts are filled with fantasies of traversing Australia on an enduro or bombing the Alps on a fine European sportsbike. These things aren't likely to happen tomorrow, but you've got to start somewhere. Last summer I began keeping a photo record of my back yard; the fabulous Keweenaw Peninsula located in the north wester portion of Michigan's Upper Penisula. This area is chocked full of amazing scenery and colorful history. It's a blend of nature/wildlife, native American Indians, 19th century copper mines, and college kids. I plan to chronicle my adventures throughout the UP and hopefully beyond in this blog. If you're at all interested in neat places up here this might be interesting. If not I just might take some sweet pictures that are nice enough to look at. So far this summer has gotten off to a slow start. We're getting into May and we are still barely above freezing. But stay tunned I'll have some good stuff up as soon as it happens.