Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: porkies

Explored! #54 [July 22, 2007] Thanks! Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This photo looks "the other way" from the Lake of the Clouds overlook in the Porkies. We're looking down at the river from overhead . The drop at this point is only a couple hundred feet or so; along the Escarpment Trail the drop gets higher and the dropoff gets steeper, as the map at the link shows. (What doesn't show is that Joel's deathly afraid of heights.) We hiked along the Escarpment on Wednesday afternoon and I'll doubtless share some other pictures in the near future.

With her binoculars up to identify some bird. Escarpment Trail in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The drop is nearly as dramatic as it looks.

Another view of the Big Carp River from the Escarpment Trail in Michiigan's Porcupine Mountains.

Joan, on the Escarpment Trail above Lake of the Clouds in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park. J.W. Foster and Josiah Whitney, who surveyed the Lake Superior mineral deposits for Congress in the middle of the nineteenth century, included an engraving of this lake, which was then called "Carp Lake" (the river remains the Big Carp-- see msprague's comment , below ). It seems that the Porkies were already a tourist destination at that time. Lake of the Clouds is clearly a preferable denomination....