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    I have some good friends from Rochester hills (Detroit area) that want me to come up to their summer cabin. It's wayyy up north. The pictures are absolutely stunning. I was impressed. It's a several hour drive from any airport and I just don't have the time. They said the bugs were pretty bad though
    We like to take 2 weeks up there like last summer. Very few mosquitoes and sometimes in the 95deg range. It's the biting flies that appear to be houseflies but bite through steel that can be troublesome. Very remote when above Houghton. The scenery out on the northern most point is beautiful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pentecali View Post
    I have some good friends from Rochester hills (Detroit area) that want me to come up to their summer cabin. It's wayyy up north. The pictures are absolutely stunning. I was impressed. It's a several hour drive from any airport and I just don't have the time. They said the bugs were pretty bad though
    That depends on when you go, and when and where you go outside. My mother is in the western U.P. Black fly season is bad - however, at the Lake Superior beach with a nice breeze off that giant lake, not so bad. The beaches of the western U.P. from Ontanongan up to the tip of the Keewanaw Peninsula are a rock hounds dream come true! Fittingly, the beach a mile down the road from my mom's is called Agate Beach and I've spent happy hours combing through rock there. Horseshoe Beach (Falls?) is another icon place up there.

    But the lower peninsula has scenic beauty, too. The AuSable River is (was) a great canoe/kayak river with no white water. There are several dams to portage around. I haven't been up there in years - but I do remember the last time we put in at Alcona Dam, the staging area below the dam was full of zebra mussels.

    Lake Michigan beaches are just gorgeous - around Grand Haven the sand is incredibly soft. Up north from there you'll find the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, and Traverse Bay. Just beautiful!

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    Winter in the U.P. Actual picture - when the snow slides off the steel roof onto the deck (at my mom's)

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    This is from 2 years ago - near my mom's. I forget whose picture this is:

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    A winter like that (above) is where your full time job is managing snow removal.

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    Too cold. A two season state-summer and long winters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    Too cold. A two season state-summer and long winters.
    Only in the upper peninsula. They have a good way of dealing with it: the sauna. And if you've never experienced a sauna in winter you are missing out.

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    Horseshoe Beach (Falls?) is another icon place up there.
    Yes, just up the shore out of Copper Harbor. I hiked in the rugged 1/2mi and found the sheltered little harbor. There is a rocky ridge outcropping that is an exciting rock climb if you are adventurous...here is a pic of me at the top of the 40' climb looking down at the beach.

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    That depends on when you go, and when and where you go outside. My mother is in the western U.P. Black fly season is bad - however, at the Lake Superior beach with a nice breeze off that giant lake, not so bad. The beaches of the western U.P. from Ontanongan up to the tip of the Keewanaw Peninsula are a rock hounds dream come true! Fittingly, the beach a mile down the road from my mom's is called Agate Beach and I've spent happy hours combing through rock there. Horseshoe Beach (Falls?) is another icon place up there.

    But the lower peninsula has scenic beauty, too. The AuSable River is (was) a great canoe/kayak river with no white water. There are several dams to portage around. I haven't been up there in years - but I do remember the last time we put in at Alcona Dam, the staging area below the dam was full of zebra mussels.

    Lake Michigan beaches are just gorgeous - around Grand Haven the sand is incredibly soft. Up north from there you'll find the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, and Traverse Bay. Just beautiful!
    I'm very curious to see it. The water was so turquoise it looked like the Caribbean. They went up there to hunt in the fall and fall foliage was awesome. I think they did mention the black flies.

    For some reason, we don't have a big problem with bugs in CA. Not sure why. Maybe because of the dry climate?

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