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

Day 4

By Sunday, we were getting pretty good at breaking camp and getting the bikes loaded. I think we were on the road by 7:30 and head into St. ignace for breakfast and to check out the big bridge.

Thats the Mackinac bridge, pretty impressive. 5 miles long, the tops of the towers are 522 feet tall and the roadway is 199 feet above the water.

Headed out on the trail and rode some pretty fun sections. At one point we took a wrong turn and rode about 5 miles of great trail that led to this.

Then we got to the Highwater truck trail

Bryan goofing off

After this area, the trail gained elevation and got real sandy. Remember what I said before about sand..yeah, I hated it. If I did this again I'd skip this whole section.

It got to the point where I was just basicly pushing the bike, lugging it in first gear just barely moving. I really didn't want to dump it on this section. It was quite hot and I was getting pissed.
I ended up surviving that section of trail and we pressed on.

But the sand wasn't completely gone...

This was a hard drop. We were stopped trying to figure out where to go and found it was the other day than where we were pointing. I turned the bars, gave it some gas and tire washes out..BAM, down she goes. We got the bike back up and I hopped back on it but something was wrong. The bars were bent..Shit. I hopped off of it to take a better look and noticed that the fender wasn't pointing the same direction as the tire either. What the hell..We reefed on the bars a bit and got them a little better but its still messed up.

portrait time.

Time for some rest and a snack

And here we are, back at the start.

We head out of Iron River and stop in Laona and pick up some beer at the bar and head to the cabins near Wabeno, to celebrate our ride.
Day four ended up being 399 miles and we got to the cabin 15 hours and 15 min after leaving the campground in the morning!

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