Last week I went on a backpacking hiking trip in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness up in the U.P. of MI. It was about a 13 hour drive from Apple Creek, and we got up there just in time to start hiking down the trail at 3am. I was with some old friends from high school, and we had a blast! The weather could not have been better. The worse part of the whole trip was all the damn mosquitoes and black flies, there must have been a billion of them. At time we could not even stop to rest because they were so thick. I counted 20 on my right hand alone at one point. By the end of the trip it looked like I had chicken pox with all the red bit marks. But the views made up for the pesky bugs. It was a beautiful place to hike and camp, the old growth forest was full of huge hemlocks and beautiful streams. I didn't get nearly as many photos as I would have liked but those bugs were just so annoying flying into my eyes and ears and anywhere else they could get. All in all it was a great trip!Canon 30d, 10-22mm, sandisk digital film.
