Here is a collection of images that I took during the 2nd annual Upper Peninsula Overland trip. Feel free to post your favorite pictures too if you atteneded. This year's trip took us from the Keweenaw Peninsula to Sault St Marie. All said and done we travelled over 500 miles on the route and saw some of the most remote places on the south shore of Lake Superior.


All packed and pretty, ready to go, didn't quite look this clean at the end....


Mike on his way up the trail to the Cliff Drive overlook, Brett in the background.


The view from the top looking out over Cliff Drive


Teddi near the edge of the cliff


View looking to the South


Brett coming down from the Cliff overlook


At the top of Brockway Mountain prior to meeting the group at Copper Harbor


Driving along Brockway Mountain Drive

High Rock camp setup


Sunrise on the rocks at High Rock Pt.


Sunrise over the point


Wednesday morning sunrise over camp at High Rock


Mark and Jaeme at the top of Mt. Houghton... this place could have worked for a proposal too you know... :elkgrin:


Pad and Beth taking in the view at the top of Mt. Houghton


Some of the crew at the top of Mt. Houghton

On Gay Beach




The crew working their way across the sands


Angie driving the Tacoma and Ben in the X Terra just prior to alot of hot running trannies and engines


The group lined up for a break


Brenton in his 80 followed by Jason in his JK


Mike and Teddi


Mark and Mike discussing the merits of 37's vs 31's in the soft sands



Jason and Blythe in their Colorado and Brandon and Ann in their TJ


Brett in his Taco, Pad in the background with his Range Rover

Pad and Beth in the Rangie


View of Wenesday night's camp from about a mile offshore


View to the east from the kayak of the west side of the Huron Mountains. Huron Mountain is the distinct peak to the left.


Wednesday night's camp at the mouth of the Huron River


Jason, Angie and Ian enjoying some post dinner R&R at camp


Ben's Xterra on Gobbler's Nob during a damp Thursday


Ian piloting his Taco around on the slippery rocks

After some heavy rains Wednesday night, Thursday's trails were a bit sloppy. Jason working his way up a slippery and steep climb that we were worried vehicles may have trouble on. It was great to see all of them make it up and through with no real issues.


Ben near the top


Mike and Teddi getting it done


Ian after we reminded him to try using 4wd..


Pad's Range Rover making it look easy.

Well, here are some more pictures from the second leg of the trip. Friday morning came early, very early! We met at 7am at the Lower Harbor park in Marquette to organize, have a quick meeting, and to get filmed by the local news. We were greeted to the day by a thick, steel grey cloud cover and light rain. This was an omen of the weather to come...


I picked up a co driver from the airport Thursday evening. Now with a navigator/cinematographer onboard, we were rolling! Jenn managed to capture alot of footage whether it be turned around shooting out the back of the truck in the monsoon conditions Friday or through the sunroof on Saturday and Sunday. Good stuff.



Lined up at the bridge for our second stop on Friday. This was a needed break after a long stretch of whoop de doos. I was laughing constantly the whole time watching the Eagle bobbing across them, with the front tires leaving the ground frequently. Those struts got a workout.


I figured out the reason for Frank's erratic driving, faulty clothing design..


The Eagle in action. This car definately got more attention from the attendees and the random public our caravan encountered as we meandered across the UP.

I failed to take many pictures from Friday night's camp. The rain was coming down so hard and steady that I didn't feel like exposing my camera to it. After a brief foray into Munising to grab a bite and dry out a bit, a group of us went to Miner's Castle and Miner's beach in the Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore. The waves were large and still building as winds were blowing straight in out of the north with gale force. After getting back to our camp and setting up I cursed the weather some as the strong gusts broke one of the legs right off of my awning, leaving me with no protection from the elements other then the sleeping quarters of the Cruiser. My single greatest mistake of the weekend was taking my rain jacket out of the Cruiser and forgetting to put it back in Friday morning, leaving my with only a fleece jacket in the great typhoon of '09. I was soaked to the bone after dealing with the awning issue and Jenn and I decided it best to just kick back in the truck and watch a movie. It was just what I needed and was dry and cozy in the truck while the wind lashed with such fury that the whole truck would shake. We only left the truck long enough to sample some of Hod's incredible lamb/beef burgers and check in with everyone briefly. Saturday morning, though still grey, proved to be dry and was a big spirit lifter for the group.


Saturday's team building excercise. After encountering a washout that was around 5 feet deep we got to work doing some road "improvements". Pretty much the whole team worked together to source logs to fill the large voids with as those with shovels regraded the high side and filled over the logs. Ended up working great. We even had an audience of Tom's uncle who was running his bear dogs and we just happened to randomly encounter..... right after we randomly passed about 10 of his cousins on a dirt road an hour earlier. That guy is related to that whole county I swear.....


The view from the top of Devil's Log slide looking to Grand Sable pt and lighthouse


Jenn with the breaking surf 300 feet below.

Can you spot Joash? He was probably setting up to take more awesome photos. Grand Sable Dunes




Lunch time and a refueling stop in Grand Marais. The sun finally broke through and the day was getting better and better!


We could resist the urge to stop no longer, the blueberries were everywhere and with fear of mutiny afoot, we decide to pull over and feast/pick. Jason searches for wifi amongst the blueberries..


The spoils!


Tom roasting up his dinner at Camp Eagle, mouth of the Two Hearted


The group watching Frank surf


Elripster having lived up to his name, talking to Brandon, post-shred


Tom and Flex

My collection of sunset shots
















Brandon framing the perfect shot

Brandon and Anna at the mouth of the Two Hearted


Sunday morning, the morning grouch still slumbering.. hahahaa


After having the raffle Sunday morning (what a great raffle it was too with very nice prizes, thanks for everyone who contributed) we rolled out to Crisp Point. In this shot, Brendan consolidating fuel at Crisp Point.


Brian's sweet diesel 40


Climbing the Crisp Point lighthouse


Flex at the hatch in the top of the lighthouse


At the top of the lighthouse


The next stop after Crisp Point was the old life saving station of Vermillion. This shot is from one of the old outbuildings.


The crew in route to Whitefish Point from Vermillion