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trips - Porcupine Mountains Backpacking Trip

Trip Info

Dates: 6/28 - 7/5/08
Trip Organizer: landnavman
Location: Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Number of Attendees: (view all)
1 yes
0 maybe

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Description


June 28 to July 5, 2008
Michigan Bush Rats' Backpacking Trip
8-day, 32-km, Off-Trail Exploration of the
Eastern Porcupine Mountains Escarpment
Michigan :: Western Upper Peninsula
Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties :: Silver City

>> Trip highlights include:
• Remote riverside bivouacs
• Numerous waterfalls
• Old Silver Mines
• Old Copper Mine
• Underground Trappers Cabin
• Numerous remote overlooks
• Old Growth
• 1944 Wreck Site of B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber

Learn more about this free backpacking trip by pointing your Internet browser to our trip thread on Backpacker Magazine’s Midwest Forum at:
http://www.backpacker.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=613107219;t=9991101182

All the Best,

LandNavMan
Michael Neiger
Marquette, Michigan

 

= Yes, = Maybe

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