Camp property found, now updates.

[dodge man]

That third picture is a keeper!

 

[civilian]

Arly, just found this thread and have read since you looked at this cabin and property. A few questions. Do you no longer volunteer on trail rolling, etc back at home? (Seeing you are now retired) Do you leave roller and groomer at the camp? What is the reason for pushing/clearing snows away from buildings? Just for better winter access and for less melt off in the spring? I know you two enjoy the winter season so much more than people can understand. Myself, I would much rather have snow in the winter than have to deal freezing rain and ice build up on trees and everything else. We left Cleveland, OH back in '71 because of their crappy winters and came to northern lower Michigan and would not go back. I enjoy reading your threads about your life style and location. Keep up the good work and I will keep following you along.

As a side note, I have a friend that has a cabin off grid in northern lower MI, 80 acres, surrounded by state land. A mile access trail that they can drive theirs car and truck in there. So I can imagine you wanting to get to that point also. Jon

 

[ArlyA]

Arly, just found this thread and have read since you looked at this cabin and property. A few questions. Do you no longer volunteer on trail rolling, etc back at home? (Seeing you are now retired) Do you leave roller and groomer at the camp? What is the reason for pushing/clearing snows away from buildings? Just for better winter access and for less melt off in the spring? I know you two enjoy the winter season so much more than people can understand. Myself, I would much rather have snow in the winter than have to deal freezing rain and ice build up on trees and everything else. We left Cleveland, OH back in '71 because of their crappy winters and came to northern lower Michigan and would not go back. I enjoy reading your threads about your life style and location. Keep up the good work and I will keep following you along.

As a side note, I have a friend that has a cabin off grid in northern lower MI, 80 acres, surrounded by state land. A mile access trail that they can drive theirs car and truck in there. So I can imagine you wanting to get to that point also. Jon

Jon, we are still keeping up the locale trails near Houghton, but we are trying to give them away for someone else to do.

The Boundary Road trails club did buy some implements so we have ours at Camp C.

We have to doz the snow back at camp or we won't be able to open doors etc, etc. The snow coming off the roof takes up much space.

The road in needs drainage dug and corduroy added but we can get in and out today. When a tractor is purchased, the drainage will get added asap.

 

[ArlyA]

Yesterday I was chatting with our JD dealership about there late model 4066r demo they have there. Tractor sales must have slowed down since they have it discounted and they have more than one in stock. This would of course be located at camp, along with backhoe and root grapple, plus back blade of sorts

 

[dodge man]

Yesterday I was chatting with our JD dealership about there late model 4066r demo they have there. Tractor sales must have slowed down since they have it discounted and they have more than one in stock.

There you go, snap that baby up.

 

[ArlyA]

Weekend forecast looks 1/2 dry for a camp adventure.

 

[civilian]

Arly, thanks for the update. A couple of pictures ago was of a small hut like with what looked like a chunk of siding out of it. Is that a deer blind? I know you showed a deer blind picture in the fall up on a stand. Is my assumption correct? If so that is a lot of snow in the back country. Jon

 

[ArlyA]

Arly, thanks for the update. A couple of pictures ago was of a small hut like with what looked like a chunk of siding out of it. Is that a deer blind? I know you showed a deer blind picture in the fall up on a stand. Is my assumption correct? If so that is a lot of snow in the back country. Jon

There is one tower blind and three on the ground. Here is the three ground ones

 

[civilian]

Last picture was the one I was thinking of. Thanks, Jon

 

[Rockbadchild]

holy Arly your snow is already melting.... ours hasn't even started yet

 

[ArlyA]

NOAA changed our weekends forecast and at this point, we are looking at heading back to camp on Friday. Must get pods off the 850 4x4 to leave there, then bring the 6x6 back!

 

[civilian]

Looking forward to pictures. Jon

 

[ArlyA]

Dearest says she'll have a short day, so we are heading to camp Covington this afternoon. We have no idea what the condition of the road in will be there so I hope to get the pods off the 4x4 and leave it there, then bring the 6x6 back with us.

 

[ArlyA]

Well folks, it was an adventure getting out! Not knowing what the road condition would be getting in, I traded out the pods for wheels today on the 4x4 so we could use it if snow was low. Driving out, it looked pretty shallow near here but when we got here and looked down the path we groom, looked solid. Heading down the road with the wheeled 4x4, was stuck in 200 ft. Unhooked the otter sled and headed back to grab the 6x6 with its pods still on! Drove through multiple creeks going down the road in as it rained. We were quite wet when we got here.

 

[ArlyA]

Well, the snow has really gone down here, maybe 30 percent remaining. Water is high flowing over the road near our cabin and I got photos. Not sure we can ski but we do have knee high mud boots here. On reason we wanted to get out here was to see the water levels crossing all the roads. When we see 40 degrees in town, NOAA says it's 55 or 60 here. Same variations with cool temps but cooler here. It being at a higher elevation and far from the big lake.

 

[ArlyA]

Good morning Camp fans! I am getting photos processed but it is a slow process for me. Here is the parking lot and ride out. It had been warm there so the tracks with a cargo sled parked, shows just how poor the 4x4 did. I do have folks tell us "my 4x4 does fine in snow". Good thing the 6x6 with its pods still on, was parked in the utility trailer or we'd have not got out.. The lowest photo shows the fog created my warm air and cool snow. With the snow as times being 2 or 1.5 ft tall and dropping into the water, it was a challenging trip. The water was never very deep.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like an adventure!!!!! Any idea how long mud season will last?

 

[ArlyA]

More pics from camp.

 

[ArlyA]

A few more, top is moose tracks. Middle is trail blazing we put up a 2 or 3 weeks ago. Then snow or fog, taken by the trail cam.

 

[ArlyA]

Looks like an adventure!!!!! Any idea how long mud season will last?

Our "mud season" is usually rather short. You see the sun is getting high by the time the snow is getting low, so we have light until 9 now. With the intense sun, the plants get kicked on and suck up that moisture. We do need rain despite all the snow moisture. Without that rain the high, dry locations will catch on fire before the leaves are out. Our forests do not naturally burn here.