1236 miles, 4 days - The Michigan U.P. Safari
By Chad Berger

Day 2

We cruise up to the tourist town of Copper Harbor for breakfast but make a little side trip first up the Brockway Mtn parkway, a pretty fun little ride.
Here is a cool old bridge in Eagle River

Here is what you see from the bridge.

Here is Bryan checking out the view of Lake Superior from Brockway

Here is a shot of the lake from a ways down of Brockway. Notice the freighter out in the lake. The shipping channels are fairly close to shore and there are tons of shipwrecks all along the coast.

Our goal after breakfast was to take a side trip out to the very tip of Keweenaw point, to visit an old NASA rocket range. This was one rough as hell section of trail, but very fun. Lots of rocks, ledges, mud, etc.

Lifes a beach.

Bryan showing some nice form through one of the many mud holes.

Once we got done goofing off out there it was already getting close to noon, and we hadn't made any progress in the direction we were heading for the day. The route calls for back tracking the same stuff we rode yesterday for quite a while. Well, those trails were nothing to brag about, and they run right next to the highway anyways so we put in some road miles. We had to stop in Hancock to find a Motorcycle dealer to see if they had a couple mirrors and a speedo cable for the DRZ. We each neaded one mirror from low speed dump yesterday. Well, no luck on the bike parts but we did find a camping store that had a patch kit for my thermarest.

More day 2
The ride from Twin Lakes to L'Anse and on to republic was the best part of the ride I think. Pretty remote feel to the area.
Lots of little side trips today. Here is the Victoria Spillway

Not sure what Bryan is up to here but it looks like no good.

We tried to find the exact spot of the top of Mt. Arvon ( The highest point in Michigan ), but exteme logging in the area made it quite difficult. We actually rode through an area with some loggers working, I'm sure they were wondering what we were doing.
Here is me riding down Mt Arvon Then we had to put the hammer down to get some miles in. Awesome Forest roads that make 50-60 mph pretty easy to do

Sometimes you have to stop and take a look at the scenery though

11hrs28min and 280 miles later arrive in at Little Lake campground.

We actually did go southeast out of Twin Lakes to Alston then about half way to Sidnaw we went east on FR2276 to the Sturgeon River Gorge. We didn't hike all the way in to the falls though, It was frikin' hot and at that point we just wanted to keep moving. We also stopped at silver mtn and talked to a guy but decided to skip the 300 step hike up to where there used to be a lookout tower. This is about the only things we skipped on becuase we felt we had been doing too much goofing of and not enough riding.

If we woulda known it was going to be so nice I coulda left alot of crap at home...but at least I didn't bring the laptop this time
Actually a little rain woulda been nice, It was dustier than hell.

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