McCormick Wilderness Exploration 2022
Join Jay & Liz for a trip into the McCormick Wilderness, scouting locations for a possible future Fortune Bay Expedition Team group excursion.
Join Jay & Liz for a trip into the McCormick Wilderness, scouting locations for a possible future Fortune Bay Expedition Team group excursion.
We had a spectacularly warm and sunny autumn day for practicing our land navigation skills in the Lowell Regional Greenspace, as the yellow maples glowed all around us.
Northern Ontario has hundreds of waterfalls, many of which are little-known and seldom-visited because access to them is challenging. This expedition explored some of these remote hidden gems via overland travel on primitive roads, and hiking through untamed woods.
For this excursion we spent four days exploring four different areas near Gaylord MI, and challenged ourselves to practice our outdoor skills and learn something new. It was a chance to get our bodies and gear warmed up and field tested for upcoming 2022 adventures.
For this excursion we explored the area around the Two Hearted River in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula. Some of us floated the river in kayaks while others explored overland on primitive roads and trails.
In this outdoor cook-off we challenged ourselves to cook something amazing using only a wood fire as the heat source. No fossil fuels, no alcohol stoves, no electric appliances.
I heard of the long winds that build in the Rockies, racing down and spending their force on the Great Plains. Winds that move stone,… Read More »Pirates of the Beaver Archipelago
We rode the mighty Zodiac Thor across a narrow strip of Lake Superior to Grand Island, one of the newest assets in the National Forest Service inventory. It was added in the early 1990s and was formerly a private game preserve and privately owned. Once settled in at camp, we set out to explore the many miles of roads, trails and beaches.
“It’s medicine.” Said the white haired, swarthy first mate as he handed over an unmarked spray bottle. This same bottle he had been visiting since… Read More »St. Helena Island Service Excursion
A place rich in history, we read the pamphlet eagerly…. ….”Three generations of McCormick’s, the descendants of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaping machine, held… Read More »McCormick Wilderness Excursion 2018