Porcupine Mountains in the UP - anything to climb there?
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Planning a backpacking trip over the 4th- and just wondering if there's anything at all inside the actual park. Even that "bouldering" type of climbing people do? Nothing on MP closer than Norwick Ledge.... |
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If you want a pure adventure.... The answer is..... Kinda. Most of the rock there is crap to climb on that i have seen. There is one wall west of the lake of the clouds trailhead (just west of the bend in the trail) that looked like it could have potential. I didn't look too close, but it 'could' have potential. |
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Taken from the bridge over the big carp river looking up at the tourist overlook. |
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Didn't seem too promising. Talked to a ranger and she mentioned Norwick as the closest place people would go- and that the Escarpment basalt was super chossy. We opted to camp down by lake Superior instead of a fruitless exploration- I did check out some of the rock (boulders and very short walls) further down the Big Carp River and solid looking holds would just crumble. But a lovely lovely forest up there. |
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Michael, are these cliffs on Mt. Kallio and Mt. Haystack? I'm working on a guidebook for Michigan and any potential areas intrigue me. |
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Guidebook?!?!? Tells us more! The UP needs one! |
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Well, after trying to use the guidebook the Ridge Roamers and Down Wind have for Cliff Drive on my college visit to MTU ~5 years ago I determined the same thing and I've been quietly working on a rock and ice guidebook since. |
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Seth, that bluff is the Porkies. Far far away from the ski hill. |
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Seth, you're probably thinking of Bare Bluff. It's a part of the Grinell Memorial Sanctuary. |
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