Matt N, Kelly, Rick and I took a trip to visit our professor Steve in northern MN and to spend a few days camping on the Pictured Rocks Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of MI. We spent the first night with Matt's parents in Minneapolis before heading up to Steve's cabin for a couple days. From there we traced back around Lake Superior to head up to the UP and the prettiest camp site we've ever been to!
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| Matt, Kelly, Rick and Erin sit on Steve's dock on Loon Lake. |
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| Kelly makes friends with Steve's Newfoundland, Sage. |
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| Kelly and Rick visit with Steve, and newfie's Ned and Sage |
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| Rick and Matt |
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| Rick dropped one of Steve's glasses into the lake and had to jump in to go get it. |
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| Rick abandons pants in favor of drying out. Matt decides if Rick doesn't have to wear pants, he doesn't either. |
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| Matt buttons up his sleeves against a cool breeze off the lake |
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| Matt and Rick help Steve build a deck on his cabin |
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| Sage watches the construction |
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| Clare gives directions to the construction crew |
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| Rick and Matt put up a beam |
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| The deck starts to come together |
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| Sage and Matt have a bonding moment |
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| Rick, Steve, Matt, Erin and Kelly pose for a quick photo (with Canada behind them) before running from the cloud of mosquitos that descended on them. |
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| Rick cuddles with a Rick-sized Sage |
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| This frog hitchhiked on our back window for over an hour before Rick noticed him in the rearview mirror and we pulled over to release him. |
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| Erin, Rick, Kelly and Matt hiking at Pictured Rocks |
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| Kelly and Rick look out over Lake Superior |
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| Matt and Kelly beside Beaver Creek |
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| Rick fills water bottles in Beaver Creek |
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| Matt and Kelly climb up a steep hill |
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| Rick poses on a rock |
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| Erin, Rick, Kelly and Matt take a quick picture above the cove where they ate lunch |
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| Rick, Matt, and Kelly look out over Lake Superior |
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| Rick, Kelly and Matt investigate a tree growing on a rock pillar who's roots have stretched back to the mainland |
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| An eagle surveys the cove where we stopped to rest on the way back to our campsite |
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| Rick on 12 mile beach looking out over Lake Superior |
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| Erin takes a break while hiking |
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| Matt hiking |
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| Kelly and Rick at Trapper Lake |
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| Giant Snapping Turtle in trapper lake |
