The above photo of the Miners River winding along Miners Beach before flowing into Lake Superior is one of many from a fantastic new photo gallery by Lars Jensen. His galleries and reports take you on amazing hikes and this one is no exception!
View Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Fall Photo Gallery & Trip Report from randomSPACE. (there’s a bunch more galleries of outdoor beauty from Michigan and elsewhere from Lars Jensen there too!)
The View, photo by I am Jacques Strappe.
Marjorie has quite a few more photos of Sugarloaf Mountain near Marquette.
The Upper Michigan Informer has good information on how to get to Sugarloaf Mountain (just 5 miles north of Marquette) and the trails you’ll find there.
In addition to some history, Hunt’s UP Guide quotes outdoor writer Jerry Dennis from A Place on the Water: An Angler’s Reflections on Home:
“Like many downstaters who attend Northern Michigan University, I was there for the country. . . . Even those places that were most popular gave access to a wildness that is rarely encountered in the Lower Peninsula. A few miles from campus, at the summit of a little mountain known as Sugar Loaf, you could stand on rock outcroppings and look north over the almost frightening vastness of Lake Superior, then turn south and see unbroken hills of forest tumbling inland toward the horizon like bunched rugs. It was country – and this is what I had come north to find – big enough to get lost in.”
FYI, A Place on the Water is a great book if you love Michigan, the outdoors or simple good writing. If you love fall’s beauty, check out the Michigan Fall Wallpaper series!
fall leaves, photo by Latitude 45.
Am I ready for fall to end? No, I am not ready for fall to end.
You can have fall all the time and up-to-date with our Michigan Fall Wallpaper series!
Snow and sunshine, photo by jhhymas.
This photo is part of an set of photos called Emmett County Autumn.
June also wrote something about the red maple in the snow and her father on her blog.
Upper Tahquamenon Falls, photo by lluusz.
This photo was taken on October 16, 2005. I don’t speak Chinese, but I’m guessing this “上塔库梅珑瀑布” says something about what a glorious sight this is.
lake of the clouds, again, photo by Apparat-chik.
Sometimes I have to search and search and other times it’s just there. This photo is part of a set that wins “Best Title for October 2006” called If this isn’t “Deliverance,” then it must be Michigan UP. According to his bio, Mike is a brilliant yet reclusive volcanologist residing on my private game reserve on the Kamchatka Penninsula .. or something like that.
The DNR has information about hiking & camping in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (aka the Porkies). You can find more about the area at the Porcupine Mountains Ontonagon Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. In its Porcupine Mountains entry, Wikipedia says that they were named by the native Ojibwa people, supposedly because their silhouette had the shape of a porcupine and that “the most striking geological feature of the Porcupine Mountains is the long basalt and conglomerate escarpment parallel to the Lake Superior shore and overlooking Lake of the Clouds, a continuation of the same copper-bearing bedrock found farther northeast on the Keweenaw Peninsula.”
The park was formed in 1945 to protect the last large stand of old-growth forest remaining in Michigan. The park has an excellent network of backcountry trails for hiking, backpacking and cross-country skiing, rustic trailside cabins, campgrounds, swimming and boating areas. The North Country Trail runs through the park.
You have to be happy that this photo is part of the Michigan in Pictures Michigan Fall Wallpaper series!
Fall at Grand Ledge, photo by nomm de photo.
Rein says this photo best viewed large.
You can see more of his work at The Photography of Rein Nomm and learn more about the 300 million-year-old ledges at Grand Ledge, Michigan from Michigan in Pictures.
yummmmmm, photo by vanessamiller.
The next EXPOSURE.Detroit show takes place next Friday (Oct 20, 2006) from 7:00pm – 10:00pm at Karras Bros Tavern, Detroit, MI and features “CAVE CANEM”, radiospike, rckrawczykjr and vanessamiller. As Ms. Miller is the only photographer from whom Michigan in Pictures has not yet featured a photo, the choice of who to pick out of these 4 talented artists was easy!
As this photo from high up in the abandoned David Whitney Building demonstrates, Vanessa seems to gravitate toward abandoned buildings and is not at all afraid of heights. She also free-lances for The Real Detroit Weekly.
Jagged end, photo by mainegal.
Is this photo of leaves like this photo of leaves? If it is, does that bother you?
This photo is from a new group on Flickr called Assignment: Detroit that assigns its members a location or theme to photograph and present their best pictures. The first assignment is Belle Isle. It sounds like a lot of fun and we’ll try and check back in at the end of the month!
Be sure and view this photo large because it’s amazing!
Herman Road Ranch by Keith Burnham
In June of 2001, photographer Keith Burnham started a web site called The Leland Report. Over the years it has provided a look and the Leland and Leelanau County area through photos and the comments of a community of over 5000 members.
Keith also uses the site to call attention to community causes. The latest is an effort to purchase Leland’s Fishtown for historic preservation (Fishtown Preservation Society). They are currently holding an online auction of Fishtown related artwork on Absolute Michigan – check it out!
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