Ah, the snow thermometer by Calumet in the wonderful world of SNOW. I've been there in March (went to buy a compressor) and that's exactly what it looks like. A truck parked in the house driveway can't be seen by the neighbors... Thanks Dennis!
I've been up there numerous times but only onceduring the winter. If you get up that way again you can take a drive to the end of the Keweenaw peninsula well past where Hwy 41 ends (in Copper Harbor). There's an old cold war rocket launch pad, never used. Not a drive for the faint hearted last time we did it. So to keep it wood related, visit the Estevant Pines just outside Copper Harbor, good sized white pines.
It has been years since I've gone past Copper harbor but yes, there is a road and they did plan on launching rockets years ago. I also understand someone has bought the old air force base by Calumet and plan on making a museum or something. I hope to drive in the peninsula yet this summer and maybe take a color tour around Oct 1. I'm not sure where all you have been up there but I have always loved the UP. We lived in the Escanaba-Gladstone area. Now I'm a troll (someone who lives below the bridge), lol.
I've been to most places in the UP which is easy to do since I live just a few miles from it. A stop at the shipwreck museum north of Paradise is an excellent stop. The original bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald is there and they have a ceremony in rememberance every year when the bell is rung, once for each person who perished. There's also a drive from Skanee to Big Bay that's all dirt and not for low slung cars, it goes through the Huron Mountains. I used to have a permanent camper site in Skanee right on Huron Bay, caught a lot of king salmon and lake trout out there. A stop in Alberta at the Ford sawmill museum is enlightening and well worth the time. There's also a steel dam somewhere over by Tri Mountain southwest of Houghton but I've never been there. Hopefully you've been to a few of those. The Open Skies project: Open Skies Project revives Keweenaw Radar Base near Eagle Harbor
Those are about the worst riders, maybe a bulkhead lumber car coming in at a very close second. I ride inside the guns if empty. Hot this time of year pretty much any kind of railcar. I've been an engineer for a while but still work the ground once in a while.
