tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62690175328560448562024-03-13T10:56:51.800-07:00The 1,000-Mile Great Lakes AdventuresUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-12854574485917353112023-01-31T16:38:00.001-08:002023-01-31T16:38:58.926-08:00Specialist on Viking's Expedition Ships<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">The last 8 months have been quite a ride. Early in 2022, I accepted a position with Viking Expeditions as a Specialist. They were bringing their new expedition ship, the Octantis, to the Great Lakes and they needed a Great Lakes expert.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Enter...ME.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">I spent the spring-summer-and fall jumping on and off the ship, giving lectures about our Great Lakes to Viking guests, and learning all about life on a ship. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">It was an amazing season on the Great Lakes and I had a blast answering questions about and explaining the workings of our amazing Great Lakes.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhx4jpWR5WGQDtABvInYTGsuNY8fXNv3WaVmISfl3QWr1185k7WSERVkKmoSaT1A4OVjBe6h4Pl4wCjzdgaVl_kphlCNuEGk6CZY45krJt2SJ5RuiJID0KmJKptvwsuncTeV6jJICyd6lcgMJzUrOBprOq4nkUfquBmsQowZ26u2dwSvIHcArK1go" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhx4jpWR5WGQDtABvInYTGsuNY8fXNv3WaVmISfl3QWr1185k7WSERVkKmoSaT1A4OVjBe6h4Pl4wCjzdgaVl_kphlCNuEGk6CZY45krJt2SJ5RuiJID0KmJKptvwsuncTeV6jJICyd6lcgMJzUrOBprOq4nkUfquBmsQowZ26u2dwSvIHcArK1go" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">I was on the ship as it exited the Great Lakes out the St. Lawrence River, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, then the North Atlantic. 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We hiked some of my favorite trails in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.</span></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVvXgQ7GgcbPhYdls-tT6bHoyAnWkr4tAq6vZCsA2VaEX4BVoy6bEfTpDvNwSJh_TfONUwkh8ZIepo696sULC4zjkrjX1fU0jZ3WUdADMrNNqPOBk_fzko12smt2_ofkMBt3xdyZWgZD0RJsytIJUb_mNG2VPgHEj4Xz9WJO9knysj_ZsW5rZNGZk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="3088" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVvXgQ7GgcbPhYdls-tT6bHoyAnWkr4tAq6vZCsA2VaEX4BVoy6bEfTpDvNwSJh_TfONUwkh8ZIepo696sULC4zjkrjX1fU0jZ3WUdADMrNNqPOBk_fzko12smt2_ofkMBt3xdyZWgZD0RJsytIJUb_mNG2VPgHEj4Xz9WJO9knysj_ZsW5rZNGZk=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Then, at the end of 2022, I joined Viking's newest Expedition ship, Polaris....</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; 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font-size: large;">Many more adventures await. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Soon, I'll join Polaris to sail the Chilean fjords for six weeks. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Yay!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Learn more about Viking Expeditions <a href="https://www.vikingcruises.com/expeditions?cid=SEM|GGL|999|c_6747523645_kwd-523332695272_642057821979&utm_id=sem:VXP-US-GGL-Brand-Core-Expeditions-Exact&utm_content=VXP-US-GGL-Brand-Core-Expeditions-Exact&gclid=CjwKCAiAleOeBhBdEiwAfgmXf-lkmMLRtnDzzuyLi8MOvL8DlACEp9qHGT7jT7igtVv7uIX8x8ThVxoCPigQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-17886655112955392632022-06-05T12:02:00.000-07:002022-06-05T12:02:29.384-07:00Moosewatch 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/">http://www.laketrek.com/</a></span></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">I was thrilled to return to Isle Royale to lead another team of women hikers on a <a href="https://isleroyalewolf.org/participate/participate/explorers.html" target="_blank">Moosewatch Expedition</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-XXNprv_DbIs7kLc_CNis2BctWSI7QS1_0Va9Zv9_LGGE9D1WismMfCKUb3jkkI2semzjqJGBkPtAeXkxTSg3D7kk_zbs7lMrvpRWs7l_gCppGNAJk3D9oG5dHqqDi_VBZfEsZddxME4BFr5iMVfSxAlY9WJeG6ZTpBk8_Q81PiIgOh7CeHe2Z4/s4896/SC02496%20copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-XXNprv_DbIs7kLc_CNis2BctWSI7QS1_0Va9Zv9_LGGE9D1WismMfCKUb3jkkI2semzjqJGBkPtAeXkxTSg3D7kk_zbs7lMrvpRWs7l_gCppGNAJk3D9oG5dHqqDi_VBZfEsZddxME4BFr5iMVfSxAlY9WJeG6ZTpBk8_Q81PiIgOh7CeHe2Z4/w400-h300/SC02496%20copy.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The team returns with 7 skulls total</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75JNB_Z2Wdg6rIkRKM_C0ig6dhVkrQxlpG3zr7E9tK58coMCAecX1ZbAzHTP5w6GKOY6d7LJmVbjLVIcaX_2ZnVZ9H5Z3-hvkKslpjhDdgrpSrbFUZ3dlXhFJ69iz6FGpULBDNmkZFbAE92CPDNsRldKn14ZyI2DG9uslomRaQ1z9Pk_QwaxZQLY/s4896/SC02514%20copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75JNB_Z2Wdg6rIkRKM_C0ig6dhVkrQxlpG3zr7E9tK58coMCAecX1ZbAzHTP5w6GKOY6d7LJmVbjLVIcaX_2ZnVZ9H5Z3-hvkKslpjhDdgrpSrbFUZ3dlXhFJ69iz6FGpULBDNmkZFbAE92CPDNsRldKn14ZyI2DG9uslomRaQ1z9Pk_QwaxZQLY/w400-h300/SC02514%20copy.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All participants for this expedition</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">It was an amazing week on this wild island. I'm honored to be a team leader for this citizen scientist-driven study.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-55620657175090683092022-02-24T16:26:00.003-08:002022-02-24T16:26:32.995-08:00Winter Hiking<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">I went out to the lakeshore today to hike my trail for the <a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes</a>. This volunteer organization does important work to help maintain and improve the gorgeous National Lakeshore. Volunteers do a variety of tasks, including:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/programs/accessibility/accessibility-volunteer-report/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Adopt-An-Access Point</a> (Accessibility)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/programs/adopt-a-beach/data-entry/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Adopt-A-Beach</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/programs/adopt-a-river/river-patrol-data-entry/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Adopt-A-River</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/programs/adopt-a-trail/trail-patrol-data-entry/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Adopt-A-Trail</a> </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/bark/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">BARK Rangers</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/programs/preventative-search-and-rescue-psar/preventative-search-and-rescue-patrol-log/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">PSAR Log</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/sleeping-bear-heritage-trail/sbht-ambassador-data-entry/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail – Trail Ambassadors</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/track-chair-report/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Track Chair Report</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/admin-or-other-volunteer-project-data-entry/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4483a6; text-decoration-line: none;">Administrative Projects</a></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">I have been a volunteer trail hiker for a couple of years now. I periodically hike the Bay View/Farms Loop trail and report on any down trees or other conditions on the trail.</span></div><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2lY5Nd4D0kdHCeSauW4fjN2u_Ip1Gjw-lEYVowUCtOCRXe-NTzE92o8Qb2w34ay43O9cZncrZrxlTMlRaMrUKTUS8s1KrqkdbY9SlTtxqq_U7e67WUMD2I2gKUYmT91R2cyThtjjC2C7PS91wBxdosNtJgNW2L_iqtTl-nb_bVIjxw378R4P65MY" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="3088" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2lY5Nd4D0kdHCeSauW4fjN2u_Ip1Gjw-lEYVowUCtOCRXe-NTzE92o8Qb2w34ay43O9cZncrZrxlTMlRaMrUKTUS8s1KrqkdbY9SlTtxqq_U7e67WUMD2I2gKUYmT91R2cyThtjjC2C7PS91wBxdosNtJgNW2L_iqtTl-nb_bVIjxw378R4P65MY=w480-h360" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chilly, but gorgeous hike</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1AZ-XjSUJP4wnPZfhd6XpMNuKCfmO3PGk4G9u0CefdWsgOUpjLH3tKZbvwFw80O0ZSoFKtCsFTqgsGcaVEGwuFSD2qMAukZc0MsakchYcP-a8VMOWqJoe4qu6aL7KOrrKx25jv1SxVxQdo1AODZSlBlL8Nb54apkfGeEua05bF6U1ktARsij_yuI" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="1884" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1AZ-XjSUJP4wnPZfhd6XpMNuKCfmO3PGk4G9u0CefdWsgOUpjLH3tKZbvwFw80O0ZSoFKtCsFTqgsGcaVEGwuFSD2qMAukZc0MsakchYcP-a8VMOWqJoe4qu6aL7KOrrKx25jv1SxVxQdo1AODZSlBlL8Nb54apkfGeEua05bF6U1ktARsij_yuI=w642-h143" width="642" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panoramic of the overlook</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit90bbLyEJ-e0CzVpGp0OOBRFjZu-ffi3aoIgxCG9fO6XIZln43c1PdbCwO_BIa53Q09ZRy3-Icj5zLuRGsK5qOJL4yeyCv34JWDgWL5EGPHuItC5AlWHFbcPh4mv5T7HJCiFzIGaedUfpQ_UkTDQLp7hzQ2Uz6ZUPzMtsLd0aW_o5gD8JGBdDMJ4=w409-h545" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="409" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure what made this tiny little trail in the snow</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit90bbLyEJ-e0CzVpGp0OOBRFjZu-ffi3aoIgxCG9fO6XIZln43c1PdbCwO_BIa53Q09ZRy3-Icj5zLuRGsK5qOJL4yeyCv34JWDgWL5EGPHuItC5AlWHFbcPh4mv5T7HJCiFzIGaedUfpQ_UkTDQLp7hzQ2Uz6ZUPzMtsLd0aW_o5gD8JGBdDMJ4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcOxQImOcT5u7t1mHUNFIasODW3zwKfqySTABEkdVSwul83RpdLzERTcqXJHe4WLVMUJ7-kHK3AaCk1AQRNHuP_So2Jd2fz3uPEJy33ipAwCok4nN2GDneGPT5uy5_z-Tb5ltNzJERN9H4XO_qdwsafsYguo3JeB2xJhIh8WUyhAxTwnkKU2L3NpM=w399-h531" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="399" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Michigan from the trail</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcOxQImOcT5u7t1mHUNFIasODW3zwKfqySTABEkdVSwul83RpdLzERTcqXJHe4WLVMUJ7-kHK3AaCk1AQRNHuP_So2Jd2fz3uPEJy33ipAwCok4nN2GDneGPT5uy5_z-Tb5ltNzJERN9H4XO_qdwsafsYguo3JeB2xJhIh8WUyhAxTwnkKU2L3NpM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">I love getting out on the snowy trails. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-73757686377087154412021-07-24T11:43:00.000-07:002021-07-24T11:43:32.202-07:00Moosewatch 2021 Part 3<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">You don't have to hike far on Isle Royale before you come upon balsam fir trees that look like the photos below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3kcMORcaMw0_Z67s7IJr94RSbQaWYZ1ZPBB-vYszAl5F3-pKqgq6ZVQgoCJTuBk6LVOAgzZvB8p3bDSkRryetu9OlWdwjqnOSUPo1WfSHTtGzBJPAYqTin3VGp2Zc_g05iuujTBstvk/s2048/20210601_101938%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1315" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3kcMORcaMw0_Z67s7IJr94RSbQaWYZ1ZPBB-vYszAl5F3-pKqgq6ZVQgoCJTuBk6LVOAgzZvB8p3bDSkRryetu9OlWdwjqnOSUPo1WfSHTtGzBJPAYqTin3VGp2Zc_g05iuujTBstvk/w410-h640/20210601_101938%257E2.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bEWE904m_049uLjVs-fBzzL1Ad3dgF-v41dq9clbqEbV3SnLu3NM9IHMok0H9yXyCSFgo1uuxRUJpeN_2mtbkWSf1WJx19JoLDFiINesrUsw-3Y5xXqknRT0NspQ31bz4WaZTuvjSi0/s6000/_DSC4372.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bEWE904m_049uLjVs-fBzzL1Ad3dgF-v41dq9clbqEbV3SnLu3NM9IHMok0H9yXyCSFgo1uuxRUJpeN_2mtbkWSf1WJx19JoLDFiINesrUsw-3Y5xXqknRT0NspQ31bz4WaZTuvjSi0/w426-h640/_DSC4372.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">This tree is the primary food source for moose in the winter. As you can imagine, as the moose population expands, the competition for balsam branches increases.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">A prolonged winter can also decrease the chances of a moose making it to spring.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">On this year's Moosewatch, my team recovered bones from 8 moose, a few of which were showing signs of starvation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Scientists have been studying the interaction of moose and wolves on Isle Royale for 63 years now. The most recent annual report can be found <a href="https://isleroyalewolf.org/sites/default/files/annual-report-pdf/WolfReport_AllPages-07.10.2021-web.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">And here's a sunset from Isle Royale.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='412' height='342' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxqKNnX4oMAG6ej8fqmJMsfiPCKW7UUutfPbQeqHPvk6463CVakU6h9id7sH9udDongEtADdWZlsTcPB1h5AQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-30577814001023999812021-06-09T07:47:00.002-07:002021-06-09T07:47:46.849-07:00Moosewatch 2021 PART 2<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The primary goal of a <a href="https://isleroyalewolf.org/participate/participate/explorers.html" target="_blank">Moosewatch Expedition</a> on Isle Royale is to gather data on moose bones in the field and to bring some of the bones back for study. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Since the study was suspended due to Covid last year and since additional wolves were relocated to the island, we expected to find more moose bones. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">And we were not disappointed.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">With each find, we searched the area for all the bones we could find, recorded which ones were present, inspected bones for signs of pathology (e.g. arthritis, healed breaks -- these bones would also be recovered for study), recorded data on location of find and condition of bones. Then, we would pack up the skull, mandibles, and a rear metatarsal. This last bone grows to its full length in the first year of a moose's life, so measuring it gives a wealth of information on how that first year went for the moose (e.g. was food abundant/scarce?).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYdZgACG-Ob592IHQik1_QYCR7CBKpnjHUy_fRFsV9jfeOf3Qxhk50u5OddpKJqFOnCTDgtJafwde0p0LI-9Ropq4FRgacZqqs2CtAg-rseQ1dA2tdHO_1Bu799YsQYclLckG2Bj8Ibs/s4608/P1010038.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYdZgACG-Ob592IHQik1_QYCR7CBKpnjHUy_fRFsV9jfeOf3Qxhk50u5OddpKJqFOnCTDgtJafwde0p0LI-9Ropq4FRgacZqqs2CtAg-rseQ1dA2tdHO_1Bu799YsQYclLckG2Bj8Ibs/w481-h361/P1010038.JPG" width="481" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj3REFa0jCrxOFXVK3wR7tzeisC5927-Y_-dchLN-hUM3mOC9g-althR5hLSfOJJdwkTuw5mddR46vBXfUaOhN66221ecp-ZyBCq8550Uu8U3NouM3uNfD77I3NL6zRa8Muu3Hims_Q4/s4608/P1010052.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj3REFa0jCrxOFXVK3wR7tzeisC5927-Y_-dchLN-hUM3mOC9g-althR5hLSfOJJdwkTuw5mddR46vBXfUaOhN66221ecp-ZyBCq8550Uu8U3NouM3uNfD77I3NL6zRa8Muu3Hims_Q4/w468-h351/P1010052.JPG" width="468" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-E7amJgRJTBnQDSpJCgM5sYZEAcCc_CK7wKj5WUQp03wtx4w_YMp0iS1qd9LGnbv2NAjACX2U914oiJGsX97lFXmZ9N-lEuEq1iTZEj7Xpx-j955niv6CRQgZ9JwrwmTh5_oG0gXrKvg/s4608/P1010058.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-E7amJgRJTBnQDSpJCgM5sYZEAcCc_CK7wKj5WUQp03wtx4w_YMp0iS1qd9LGnbv2NAjACX2U914oiJGsX97lFXmZ9N-lEuEq1iTZEj7Xpx-j955niv6CRQgZ9JwrwmTh5_oG0gXrKvg/w480-h640/P1010058.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0j7xwLxq-qelLCmdV0Q06dhMlveKyh-hPTNLsOZ6OVDIUoONGdEY_QKnO3YN8xaExg9G-wo29gH9YPpYHUGsz_S9NBwoNP5ejl2GNUCK1eroYS4Cba-fa0JaAQYhiUPTUVY23CxkuYcE/s4608/P1010104.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0j7xwLxq-qelLCmdV0Q06dhMlveKyh-hPTNLsOZ6OVDIUoONGdEY_QKnO3YN8xaExg9G-wo29gH9YPpYHUGsz_S9NBwoNP5ejl2GNUCK1eroYS4Cba-fa0JaAQYhiUPTUVY23CxkuYcE/w460-h345/P1010104.JPG" width="460" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Our last find was on the hike in to Windigo to meet up with other teams and deliver our bones. This moose was killed a few weeks ago, so we smelled it before we found it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Every bone was present except for one scapula.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Fox love to run around with the bones, so it was probably carted off by a fox.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrC7FpM22Gql6nfqZUWEs3DIKmBRsTaY5XFP24UrzRagHaySyzYvyzgGe9_3caPlEAVMLH4HF5UYyr4wd3O7GcaIsnT6sZ8yRHGqWfRMRT60lED1kgoE0s0fB5vtVFgHTZ50lnh5sDJgc/s4608/P1010347.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrC7FpM22Gql6nfqZUWEs3DIKmBRsTaY5XFP24UrzRagHaySyzYvyzgGe9_3caPlEAVMLH4HF5UYyr4wd3O7GcaIsnT6sZ8yRHGqWfRMRT60lED1kgoE0s0fB5vtVFgHTZ50lnh5sDJgc/w449-h337/P1010347.JPG" width="449" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IFpZ0wNztOF4pTqjNTvtsROfTG_a3vPSOYnxHI87bGpCGw4FHYOpdR2tOKBCwV8iN7lqXldgAx9T4AUWky0Rme_l3ES5eFWZOCasec3jiHYu1ZODDhzf6klCjt9c8_aeH0FcHJRjUto/s4608/P1010348.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IFpZ0wNztOF4pTqjNTvtsROfTG_a3vPSOYnxHI87bGpCGw4FHYOpdR2tOKBCwV8iN7lqXldgAx9T4AUWky0Rme_l3ES5eFWZOCasec3jiHYu1ZODDhzf6klCjt9c8_aeH0FcHJRjUto/w445-h334/P1010348.JPG" width="445" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Here's my team, </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">the <b>second all-women Moosewatch Team</b>:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">(L>R: April, Joceline, Zan, and Julie)</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAOvb7kAaOqvzUvSryEuwUWJKLDJm7zXVxLUmyHCiv8xUftxeLhxL-STunk-qQlCyWv-6wYEkTEIuXdrM06MxD1-JEuhGRnx-53GpjmZlyc3PyJLHUQKr-tVtg2ud0J5BrEsnHXSzWjc/s4608/P1010154.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAOvb7kAaOqvzUvSryEuwUWJKLDJm7zXVxLUmyHCiv8xUftxeLhxL-STunk-qQlCyWv-6wYEkTEIuXdrM06MxD1-JEuhGRnx-53GpjmZlyc3PyJLHUQKr-tVtg2ud0J5BrEsnHXSzWjc/w506-h380/P1010154.JPG" width="506" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-3896993783983715352021-06-06T13:35:00.003-07:002021-06-06T13:36:50.257-07:00Moosewatch 2021 PART 1<p> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">I just completed my SIXTH <a href="https://isleroyalewolf.org/participate/participate/explorers.html" target="_blank">Moosewatch Expedition</a> collecting bones on Isle Royale for the Moose/Wolf Study. This is the longest-running predator/prey study ever done (at over 60 years).</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Along the way in our searching for bones, we also gather data on other wildlife and also take measurements and locations of shed moose antlers.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">My team came across 22 sheds ranging from massive to tiny:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Julie shows off the range of our finds:</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTF9KDtzN_eK0i_yNL6zJbi3x5zfuVSSWXR3TN7RqHELJhyr4OklVg3o-8qi39DB_x9WBK1J9IhmlrEMfbKPgW5WGiMiHt7Ou9dgaL6HlKU7CjpG_0DuvoFEgR46tDb-_R9yq_MtAAfs/s2049/IMG_0218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTF9KDtzN_eK0i_yNL6zJbi3x5zfuVSSWXR3TN7RqHELJhyr4OklVg3o-8qi39DB_x9WBK1J9IhmlrEMfbKPgW5WGiMiHt7Ou9dgaL6HlKU7CjpG_0DuvoFEgR46tDb-_R9yq_MtAAfs/w480-h640/IMG_0218.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufKqzrDVNE8UuP9WTVknSHeM_YMdWBcUpv7ujXjo4HtYM_KmFVeN64eQPQe1Q0aA80n35idEwsZp0ZXm6EFJzjpoAmPTdGr7D6QwOX1_2Hqswe9CQDqNqo7T0MA3upsg1ijkMZ6ejGwA/s2049/IMG_0315.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufKqzrDVNE8UuP9WTVknSHeM_YMdWBcUpv7ujXjo4HtYM_KmFVeN64eQPQe1Q0aA80n35idEwsZp0ZXm6EFJzjpoAmPTdGr7D6QwOX1_2Hqswe9CQDqNqo7T0MA3upsg1ijkMZ6ejGwA/w480-h640/IMG_0315.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">April shows off our tiny find:</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWdzbcubuS8DpU3bIUIx0PRhxSpKgxygai5CNJRGkTABVBrndK7bipPEhrn7wyPiUdj_zHGT8nXiucbr8E3qbSzXWA_lZceBkXziyS7IRhKIiOaPC2ngXFiQ1ip_FNyNobzDat_tuUaU/s2049/IMG_0259.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2049" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWdzbcubuS8DpU3bIUIx0PRhxSpKgxygai5CNJRGkTABVBrndK7bipPEhrn7wyPiUdj_zHGT8nXiucbr8E3qbSzXWA_lZceBkXziyS7IRhKIiOaPC2ngXFiQ1ip_FNyNobzDat_tuUaU/w400-h300/IMG_0259.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Joceline discovered an ancient antler: </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig1gjh4JF3dLKSx_pE8YxrR2SPUaFCQj2MXUxVF9-X7uzIbx2WnOxh-rN9jBSEusfvMRyn-7NcQrq-z79nREjE92yHtshT-13oabRRA9TreUjVf6tLcEzujXj-1anfksk5kPgJq-ske0s/s2049/IMG_0376.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig1gjh4JF3dLKSx_pE8YxrR2SPUaFCQj2MXUxVF9-X7uzIbx2WnOxh-rN9jBSEusfvMRyn-7NcQrq-z79nREjE92yHtshT-13oabRRA9TreUjVf6tLcEzujXj-1anfksk5kPgJq-ske0s/w480-h640/IMG_0376.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Sometimes...antlers are still attached to a massive, buried skull:</span></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPCRoP8rY0pGJDka3FyunIvXkHNMyifegZq34SLHRD3_ur48qSI6WBDqeQXSUrYdFnMpCCZP7K6MC-YsLMrjKntfGHLBfUuNHNh5qG0EODcuwTrTjq680G95AUBtIMndfBFeNoY9uPFF8/s4608/P1010188.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPCRoP8rY0pGJDka3FyunIvXkHNMyifegZq34SLHRD3_ur48qSI6WBDqeQXSUrYdFnMpCCZP7K6MC-YsLMrjKntfGHLBfUuNHNh5qG0EODcuwTrTjq680G95AUBtIMndfBFeNoY9uPFF8/w477-h357/P1010188.JPG" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">More to follow on this amazing expedition...</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-11218529073969094682021-05-20T14:49:00.000-07:002021-05-20T14:49:15.817-07:00Invasive Plants<p> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I like to volunteer to maintain or improve the trails that I hike near my home in Traverse City. Sure, I always pick up trash when I hike, but I also actively search for opportunities to work on these trails. One time I even got to help put in a <i>new</i> trail in one of <a href="https://www.leelanauconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Leelanau Conservancy's</a> properties. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">This week, I joined with volunteers to help remove the invasive garlic mustard plant from <a href="https://www.leelanauconservancy.org/naturalarea/clay-cliffs-natural-area/" target="_blank">Clay Cliffs Natural Area</a>. This is one of my favorite trails within the Leelanau Conservancy.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Since it had rained the night before, pulling up these invasive plants was pretty easy and we cleared large patches of it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Here are some photos from the work day:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4NAjHMWEwjf7duc1NrlEfW19mSm7q2u2KlvkVZXonxQQLvptL5xNq9XfRamQitFgYgy3KuXGNjRqibIYA6tyxHWs15bOxOQPOpHbLOwyN-020gJUzeHIelYRvfce14cZGJf5_izc_wbM/s2048/IMG_0902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4NAjHMWEwjf7duc1NrlEfW19mSm7q2u2KlvkVZXonxQQLvptL5xNq9XfRamQitFgYgy3KuXGNjRqibIYA6tyxHWs15bOxOQPOpHbLOwyN-020gJUzeHIelYRvfce14cZGJf5_izc_wbM/w300-h400/IMG_0902.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisXrzS0H-w-wwR82yx5ebM14nsyRMUpAr1unpG0cyv3GenEsRN4GoGo6sAkd2wsE1l2MSd-ExrGJixKVQbaoSMGGfF_T8_hzX-t50bFHkx5lzh1ePa0V4XjegwaequrY8r0Eb8JrsxGI/s2048/IMG_0904.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisXrzS0H-w-wwR82yx5ebM14nsyRMUpAr1unpG0cyv3GenEsRN4GoGo6sAkd2wsE1l2MSd-ExrGJixKVQbaoSMGGfF_T8_hzX-t50bFHkx5lzh1ePa0V4XjegwaequrY8r0Eb8JrsxGI/w480-h640/IMG_0904.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmxihqBIH1egwq5x-UquqDi2SwI-D7qK9MPtt5hY4EwmD0Jh5csSczT3vDdOFVFhlhdaWTgcaHxl20gyZtrGyfs-jFzBwK-3EHb6fYLqHO-PH8P0q438RLs7prz7Ku5H7rhR6_h_3qbCg/s2048/IMG_0908.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmxihqBIH1egwq5x-UquqDi2SwI-D7qK9MPtt5hY4EwmD0Jh5csSczT3vDdOFVFhlhdaWTgcaHxl20gyZtrGyfs-jFzBwK-3EHb6fYLqHO-PH8P0q438RLs7prz7Ku5H7rhR6_h_3qbCg/w480-h640/IMG_0908.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARyDLveQ_3uCM7KCN0_iZ07FTMoDmhkZaJ0H1xgAOpSqyGJpbCWhlYEQ1PqLdF1pz-ar7PbdKqHe2bk81u_C6O4kDlxnFODQBb-8hEQwINYUIS_Mecny5OG30VYeYcgocYEvidvdnj1s/s2048/IMG_0909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARyDLveQ_3uCM7KCN0_iZ07FTMoDmhkZaJ0H1xgAOpSqyGJpbCWhlYEQ1PqLdF1pz-ar7PbdKqHe2bk81u_C6O4kDlxnFODQBb-8hEQwINYUIS_Mecny5OG30VYeYcgocYEvidvdnj1s/w480-h640/IMG_0909.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Go <a href="https://youtu.be/w87GHujTzg8" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view a tutorial on how to identify and remove invasive garlic mustard plants.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-61217926138444453452021-05-19T13:12:00.000-07:002021-05-19T13:12:59.198-07:00Platte Plains Trails<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">There are around a hundred miles of hiking trails within <a href="https://www.nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/trails.htm" target="_blank">Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore</a>. I've hiked many of them, and, lately, have set out to hike them all.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">There is a collection of trails at the southernmost part of the park called the 'Platte Plains Trail' that I recently began to explore. I've hiked the lakeshore here many times using the Esch Road access, but this time I hiked the 4.6 mile loop around Otter Creek. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">This is a fairly flat hike and part of it is on a dirt road. The wild flowers were in bloom:</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOW1lLznL2_EX4NMddpKvHlemBury7Bg-jlrqU02-ESbE9XVaoiOln_2fTqiglxsQgTlbdEk-lKKiAzfEzKT_Jbgaq1GNyI9V9GA0jpsqCjFIaQKs2pzlFL-0Tg8b1sx-qGmYvaI5hpCs/s640/IMG_0867.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOW1lLznL2_EX4NMddpKvHlemBury7Bg-jlrqU02-ESbE9XVaoiOln_2fTqiglxsQgTlbdEk-lKKiAzfEzKT_Jbgaq1GNyI9V9GA0jpsqCjFIaQKs2pzlFL-0Tg8b1sx-qGmYvaI5hpCs/w480-h640/IMG_0867.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">Trillium</span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXOmQYJRNafYJURPFBNJlDaRn9Y6yGoPONr3r9hPAblpR8dpNdqZQq7sk-r1j1pByuBqT0A1m2R6ajydq5w2wD3PJ7ZeSKE2MLN1fO7p8ga5LS5zo96a8RShMFbJagPTQ33fk0Vp47Yo/s640/IMG_0887.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXOmQYJRNafYJURPFBNJlDaRn9Y6yGoPONr3r9hPAblpR8dpNdqZQq7sk-r1j1pByuBqT0A1m2R6ajydq5w2wD3PJ7ZeSKE2MLN1fO7p8ga5LS5zo96a8RShMFbJagPTQ33fk0Vp47Yo/s320/IMG_0887.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">Marsh Marigold</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">The park had just completed a prescribed burn along part of the trail. In all, the parks service plans to burn over 2,000 acres in this area. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">These burns (according to press release), "burn off available fuel to boost fire-dependent ecosystems and head off wildfires." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">It will be fascinating to watch this area regenerate over the next year or so.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEhUtov7Kruu40hpjNl6_F9qCmHeIq1qJNCUp3Sd9V3MyJB7q5bvM39qumhVIHSnQ5je5Zt6N7QOHF-O4iL1VZaWWtop6t86B3gd17Gp8H3FQkXSFlL0zLqM7G23h0SgWa7z_ceu-t0M/s640/IMG_0882.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEhUtov7Kruu40hpjNl6_F9qCmHeIq1qJNCUp3Sd9V3MyJB7q5bvM39qumhVIHSnQ5je5Zt6N7QOHF-O4iL1VZaWWtop6t86B3gd17Gp8H3FQkXSFlL0zLqM7G23h0SgWa7z_ceu-t0M/w480-h640/IMG_0882.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">There was wildlife to watch, and I spent some time on the foggy beach, too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='370' height='308' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxyCfrViI0ciCMA17R3oylnhIsyRaYLX8kNPZ0LkJG8zxr7XMlkaqsuFIjECEO3p3v5q-szY2NaAfccR1mCng' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='364' height='303' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXP6xGwT1Ac0MTtnO9kQDEfmapWMF21LCffX48i92xJXjxhK1-2FBiT-nfYncHYqIG3PvKRtlmpVszhEKwQQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-34732942995809390212021-05-09T15:21:00.001-07:002021-05-09T15:21:13.994-07:00Leland <p><br /></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite lakeshore towns is Leland, Michigan. There is a lot of history here connected to the Lake Michigan fishery. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDEgc0eP_jANzC-peAYbojUszVBy6JVMTzX1O5JCjZKq960NxG4y-eTRZdyP2LJExj-yMHIPknMvTR6XUm8F_Hly-QRSkPDooNb5vmlYJRtXfe_p91IOlRcpL9pB-RQ0CIe-d-m5gzfM/s2016/IMG_0779.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDEgc0eP_jANzC-peAYbojUszVBy6JVMTzX1O5JCjZKq960NxG4y-eTRZdyP2LJExj-yMHIPknMvTR6XUm8F_Hly-QRSkPDooNb5vmlYJRtXfe_p91IOlRcpL9pB-RQ0CIe-d-m5gzfM/w480-h640/IMG_0779.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Many boats used to come into the Leland River filled with Lake Michigan fish. The historic collection of small buildings used to process the catch are preserved here in Fishtown.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The Carlson family still fishes these waters and smokes the fish here. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The Joy (below) is one of their fishing boats and is a trap-net tug.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkgz3UNfdbZom1nIpxRK3WO805Uj23gpx1uc-eev3YmkycWV2ARdwMCuR2c3nnYC-o-gmJdwBZHq5KVPbg52Q9A698W1-oNUtn2jlGJ0QvELW-s8eotsH-69wAq4NxMyCt_DdpJQ_3Bs/s2016/IMG_0781.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkgz3UNfdbZom1nIpxRK3WO805Uj23gpx1uc-eev3YmkycWV2ARdwMCuR2c3nnYC-o-gmJdwBZHq5KVPbg52Q9A698W1-oNUtn2jlGJ0QvELW-s8eotsH-69wAq4NxMyCt_DdpJQ_3Bs/w480-h640/IMG_0781.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Rising lake levels have recently threatened Fishtown structures and work is underway to elevate the most vulnerable structures. <a href="https://www.fishtownmi.org/" target="_blank">Fishtown Preservation</a> is the group doing this work.</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigd7dQRedVyKhDifVndJd5NBMhjaB6qMVgaWwaowwrklZPbHDtDbKeSfz2zUUm0iQ_gbh7h4EcWtHp-SQdKF42xotnKmuYTZir0WIlgf-7FevG7qeCdCkAokQ66LVGAwdYQqYCaahrp2s/s2016/IMG_0780.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigd7dQRedVyKhDifVndJd5NBMhjaB6qMVgaWwaowwrklZPbHDtDbKeSfz2zUUm0iQ_gbh7h4EcWtHp-SQdKF42xotnKmuYTZir0WIlgf-7FevG7qeCdCkAokQ66LVGAwdYQqYCaahrp2s/w480-h640/IMG_0780.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Here are some more shots along the Leland River:</span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4K_GC1cBRw680wAapucLGqNSwIwUA_sFlsDfCyCNSoY6KWYph1iTfT8yIEA5e5OLm_MPuq61fQ02_dkeTKk6hg-bdawHV5Iv_NETZnlQiJ6blt20SBaPjCfZCMoO5J1UyxAcokkH1RbI/s2016/IMG_0782.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4K_GC1cBRw680wAapucLGqNSwIwUA_sFlsDfCyCNSoY6KWYph1iTfT8yIEA5e5OLm_MPuq61fQ02_dkeTKk6hg-bdawHV5Iv_NETZnlQiJ6blt20SBaPjCfZCMoO5J1UyxAcokkH1RbI/w480-h640/IMG_0782.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLiuYymI8RnXAGveqIPQoOPTG1i7oTOTxMEbd-PtB8_4RYgqKpvRSA-kgA_lXghX26mIxKl-PFlz6FrN0B09s_JYzsiMY6GtuE4rJR9s2HE5Pk9N3wMCRlm1g4is7k-GjosM0Mk_9ZqnI/s2016/IMG_0784.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLiuYymI8RnXAGveqIPQoOPTG1i7oTOTxMEbd-PtB8_4RYgqKpvRSA-kgA_lXghX26mIxKl-PFlz6FrN0B09s_JYzsiMY6GtuE4rJR9s2HE5Pk9N3wMCRlm1g4is7k-GjosM0Mk_9ZqnI/w480-h640/IMG_0784.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">If you go, make sure you get a sandwich at the <a href="https://www.villagecheeseshanty.com/" target="_blank">Village Cheese Shanty</a>. Amazing!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Bgxb_8bTVI6HFPZgAwSfmdBhR3w6nBtnAaKa7AW0LUgX8NopUA5rEVVC5r4PN1ymHvcMbXE7rNMWQsJ-Vk6F6E0xwP41DJqU-odqcI25NPQPqHZxrG-H4w9qtzheaqdL9ZsP-PmS2Fg/s2016/IMG_0785.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Bgxb_8bTVI6HFPZgAwSfmdBhR3w6nBtnAaKa7AW0LUgX8NopUA5rEVVC5r4PN1ymHvcMbXE7rNMWQsJ-Vk6F6E0xwP41DJqU-odqcI25NPQPqHZxrG-H4w9qtzheaqdL9ZsP-PmS2Fg/w480-h640/IMG_0785.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-12490136232015958992021-05-02T13:59:00.003-07:002021-05-02T13:59:20.921-07:00Clay Cliffs<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">I live in Traverse City, Michigan, and one of the reasons I moved here was for the many hiking trails in the region. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is nearby and I've hiked most of the trails and all of the shoreline there. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Northwest of Traverse City is the Leelanau Peninsula. This gorgeous area has its own conservancy organization working to protect and preserve natural areas. One of my favorite trails on this peninsula is Clay Cliffs Natural Area located just north of Leland.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DzgB-wMnOfBGFU_rpqtWZ17_smgtJtnt2H1EmTIGkD6BaaG3AYaSh0F9RF7kgZkEPCaIkV8CCkbhb-warw8dVrDVKMFT_cCvqR8LiCEZeoKMKbYs_gn1H_j5r2v15plPBvCLArlX4OE/s2016/IMG_0797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DzgB-wMnOfBGFU_rpqtWZ17_smgtJtnt2H1EmTIGkD6BaaG3AYaSh0F9RF7kgZkEPCaIkV8CCkbhb-warw8dVrDVKMFT_cCvqR8LiCEZeoKMKbYs_gn1H_j5r2v15plPBvCLArlX4OE/w480-h640/IMG_0797.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">The trail has two overlooks, one of Lake Leelanau and one of Lake Michigan.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">Here's a video from the Lake Michigan overlook. Great views of the Manitou Islands.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='465' height='386' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwief6uX4h3Pw5Aub92p-jJZFnXZUvhGAMaaUt94wKYWIicEkdTbbUo6KkODz291SiuN5RyVGzmOI9DxeYi0Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Here's the view of Lake Leelanau:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhmU_Pc-NnCJAFVzuz7VSjM9i4d-8Ni_dzhsTVma7W_2QTUYZ-bI7MKw2YUOEo1neiTAjXQDJKUZAoseadM21LAP1FYxB7YtyOyy0QeKG0CY6oFh3bpr1ffR3uvzlig-OU6Nfkdl07HM/s2016/IMG_0786.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhmU_Pc-NnCJAFVzuz7VSjM9i4d-8Ni_dzhsTVma7W_2QTUYZ-bI7MKw2YUOEo1neiTAjXQDJKUZAoseadM21LAP1FYxB7YtyOyy0QeKG0CY6oFh3bpr1ffR3uvzlig-OU6Nfkdl07HM/w300-h400/IMG_0786.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hCnY2ZKPkWBbgKfznRtDqwxQTKAnj2Qcqx3Q1qVCOfhAOSCfIf_ClubHpDGmkxvWTPbvE7xeHZ909vNPy_eWk9Oy1efH94ALBHsmYFEj3xCMEkuFxfe9FgK3fKJUt4GYffXamR319JM/s1544/IMG_0788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hCnY2ZKPkWBbgKfznRtDqwxQTKAnj2Qcqx3Q1qVCOfhAOSCfIf_ClubHpDGmkxvWTPbvE7xeHZ909vNPy_eWk9Oy1efH94ALBHsmYFEj3xCMEkuFxfe9FgK3fKJUt4GYffXamR319JM/s320/IMG_0788.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">The wild flowers were in bloom today...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">the trout lily amongst the trillium...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimB0ajETzp13tEpOKqK6-9WVvlaNmHkZEdfgCHI2LAdrq4bNRsGvX3lQgvT4oNtbjj2gWL6VmP85ApGzjL6MmBy-VetPhowSJD7OBZaxx3-_yOaFdSn0WEv3iezBCN1yOkNel8LXgbDWw/s2016/IMG_0789.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimB0ajETzp13tEpOKqK6-9WVvlaNmHkZEdfgCHI2LAdrq4bNRsGvX3lQgvT4oNtbjj2gWL6VmP85ApGzjL6MmBy-VetPhowSJD7OBZaxx3-_yOaFdSn0WEv3iezBCN1yOkNel8LXgbDWw/w480-h640/IMG_0789.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlLtF_RWhKgqrMHBHvy17o9gSaa7w-3vUihGzBsPvrUo85b5ZD9to-qUvqZphR6fsQVEeSjPDeZlyhbv7kwMY3iYVhA-BvNLlt99aFLcMb4vBrDfIX7I7rRfNCX8jRkHMqeZEwVqYL_E/s2016/IMG_0790.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlLtF_RWhKgqrMHBHvy17o9gSaa7w-3vUihGzBsPvrUo85b5ZD9to-qUvqZphR6fsQVEeSjPDeZlyhbv7kwMY3iYVhA-BvNLlt99aFLcMb4vBrDfIX7I7rRfNCX8jRkHMqeZEwVqYL_E/s320/IMG_0790.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">And more views out on Lake Michigan...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOqg2u9VsZfT4i1f4bn_F1X_kTJbqtto4HBRMobjHdcbdWzI12_X_d-iJPCS1EwY2VLwhMnxkCWtQ5Ipl7PSX_jl_f_y1DmN4Z4T6MrUrD8ZZ2b3Od0eXDvjJmtRasXn5LrYxH4SiiOE/s1544/IMG_0793.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOqg2u9VsZfT4i1f4bn_F1X_kTJbqtto4HBRMobjHdcbdWzI12_X_d-iJPCS1EwY2VLwhMnxkCWtQ5Ipl7PSX_jl_f_y1DmN4Z4T6MrUrD8ZZ2b3Od0eXDvjJmtRasXn5LrYxH4SiiOE/s320/IMG_0793.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbgUno0JU6XzGVvLSmwSS2kvWl7GGXWrGy13UFOlK60sZGszoBWu32w0w33dB_Nc3kqvQ_ysJCgPPwdTjZ2bvmgMS29elB5PQRII597yEdRV8cs_qosCWg3B37i-UX3FvJsNlMW8AQB0k/s2016/IMG_0796.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbgUno0JU6XzGVvLSmwSS2kvWl7GGXWrGy13UFOlK60sZGszoBWu32w0w33dB_Nc3kqvQ_ysJCgPPwdTjZ2bvmgMS29elB5PQRII597yEdRV8cs_qosCWg3B37i-UX3FvJsNlMW8AQB0k/s320/IMG_0796.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-50848198282499846662021-04-29T15:01:00.004-07:002021-04-29T15:01:43.153-07:00Empire Bluff Trail in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">I took a hike up the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/trailempirebluff.htm" target="_blank">Empire Bluff Trail</a> today. This is the most used trail in </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4YQIBLbmRWm9KyeM_CCfsosQmAaIzfhAMvL7Et-eLR_9apKDBxZmKQAD6IyccxNKL704Fgrm4XFbjPnqGITtpnlPtZTmV9ISnvgNFTGObj69RdCD1MwWLrUssxTypZCAw856CeMAgbM/s2048/IMG_0757.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1539" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4YQIBLbmRWm9KyeM_CCfsosQmAaIzfhAMvL7Et-eLR_9apKDBxZmKQAD6IyccxNKL704Fgrm4XFbjPnqGITtpnlPtZTmV9ISnvgNFTGObj69RdCD1MwWLrUssxTypZCAw856CeMAgbM/s320/IMG_0757.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">There was a thick fog clinging to the surface of the cold lake. It obscured the view at times, then the fog would roll up the dunes and open up the view for a moment. It was lovely, and I had it all to myself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='450' height='375' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxCfSnZABUNRHq408aBZhuE0Hf8ZmxO2wi_D0DnA9N_s8aq2IJt1UoS5AxhyRA-aWI3V0-_FudqzyR7_OWAxw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzmtqqqs2biqlUX2vOMmfGXvj4Uolxxe-TpFMK1EZPSQkm-u14K95_kncDsPPFIDhyphenhyphenkNDoXQggkeRrkbdIB8HWR5oNtU6cBaFCAQh6M8hFh31iAKuea8EvtAsw6go15lY87UaRewD6Jo/s2048/IMG_0758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzmtqqqs2biqlUX2vOMmfGXvj4Uolxxe-TpFMK1EZPSQkm-u14K95_kncDsPPFIDhyphenhyphenkNDoXQggkeRrkbdIB8HWR5oNtU6cBaFCAQh6M8hFh31iAKuea8EvtAsw6go15lY87UaRewD6Jo/w480-h640/IMG_0758.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHbFWaD7m3aQP8Q03Pgiqt1xCw-YrBuj0g7xqn_hI3uj41yQXMzLeOabTeGvdUlvqMctfeSwozHZFeu0uPPG8AARjZuY4ofQ5UvfmVrlSL52A-AklBtCr9K_iK2TxZUu8yLPpHg1UPic/s2048/IMG_0759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHbFWaD7m3aQP8Q03Pgiqt1xCw-YrBuj0g7xqn_hI3uj41yQXMzLeOabTeGvdUlvqMctfeSwozHZFeu0uPPG8AARjZuY4ofQ5UvfmVrlSL52A-AklBtCr9K_iK2TxZUu8yLPpHg1UPic/w480-h640/IMG_0759.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirvuHl2gLSKiGEKhXKLEXb0Z5IhZDO3i6syrq4Z8q16AE46lLEyICYyD3jexM4b1doaBv8Sy-YFuacK2ox93CYnPM5jxbFZbjycwM67waKtAOitrp3cfFF80LkPXMC0fV4x9d3SeL0t50/s2048/IMG_0763.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirvuHl2gLSKiGEKhXKLEXb0Z5IhZDO3i6syrq4Z8q16AE46lLEyICYyD3jexM4b1doaBv8Sy-YFuacK2ox93CYnPM5jxbFZbjycwM67waKtAOitrp3cfFF80LkPXMC0fV4x9d3SeL0t50/w480-h640/IMG_0763.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">The view from the top!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-76669075211343037872021-02-24T08:34:00.002-08:002021-02-24T13:40:34.139-08:00Hemlock Wooly Adelgid<p> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">There is an invasive species that has been decimating hemlock trees in America for decades. It is a small insect similar to an aphid called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_woolly_adelgid" target="_blank">wooly adelgid</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">This insect is native to Asia and made its way to America via imported plants in the 1950s. It has been </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-large;">slowly </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-large;">spreading for decades and has made its way to </span><a href="https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/insect-that-kills-hemlocks-detected-in-nw-michigan-county?fbclid=IwAR3B2SC0ORUjMPy8V41VMw9Y0iJxnTyBhxV-LQwtaakGMtp6HiShEKx1cTc" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">northern Michigan</a><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-large;">. This pest has recently been found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">I often hike in and around Sleeping Bear Dunes and have seen many mature hemlock trees in these forests.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite hikes is at the Traverse City Commons, and there are some massive hemlocks there. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Check out the view from the wooded dunes:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4onUhR6QnPaivd7fr4NS-uJbWWwFrmFv7pp995hiV3GNfxofu2tWB9NPx_T2JCV-O8Iq6HVlLj0PXfj9kU8oCNeF7drj1b0LCrPpz7ehJb_4lDIRAMhwIVUJh_6ZLK5amk0Lly3kSk8/s2048/IMG_0377.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4onUhR6QnPaivd7fr4NS-uJbWWwFrmFv7pp995hiV3GNfxofu2tWB9NPx_T2JCV-O8Iq6HVlLj0PXfj9kU8oCNeF7drj1b0LCrPpz7ehJb_4lDIRAMhwIVUJh_6ZLK5amk0Lly3kSk8/w480-h640/IMG_0377.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">There is a hemlock that I visit there, and after the recent storms, I was sorry to see it had developed a crack in the trunk. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCz3qbdEKJ7nDyvlhyphenhyphenKMNXNpavSK3ZQjxUJDFtfanT_ZjiiCAu-Xz7bEAnYI9usj7mTALgXCZ1S9bR76l2zizXqeKpZpzb5MZueRrZWrH0dNbY95Z3Kg0FirDT1RRKSircrIPmUXE8Rz4/s2048/IMG_0389.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCz3qbdEKJ7nDyvlhyphenhyphenKMNXNpavSK3ZQjxUJDFtfanT_ZjiiCAu-Xz7bEAnYI9usj7mTALgXCZ1S9bR76l2zizXqeKpZpzb5MZueRrZWrH0dNbY95Z3Kg0FirDT1RRKSircrIPmUXE8Rz4/w480-h640/IMG_0389.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nuo8VXTtamehtKonfyWgxv7tia_JKMjA9YMLMIUSdFySkun2BGUlXYz_aIfQcVh3QB2WYeMVdXoWVTV4LjG2FCjCua6q78LdVeK0Ii4shqYRNr7V3r0VXJY_bPvXmKvgg2KaLPKqXwE/s2048/IMG_0392.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nuo8VXTtamehtKonfyWgxv7tia_JKMjA9YMLMIUSdFySkun2BGUlXYz_aIfQcVh3QB2WYeMVdXoWVTV4LjG2FCjCua6q78LdVeK0Ii4shqYRNr7V3r0VXJY_bPvXmKvgg2KaLPKqXwE/w480-h640/IMG_0392.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">These trees are the preferred feast for the wooly adelgid. They congregate on the underside of the needles and suck the sap out of the tree. The needles turn brown and new growth is inhibited. Infested trees can die within 4-10 years.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Trees can be treated with pesticide and can be saved if infestation is caught early.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Severe winters helped to slow the spread of this pest.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Update (info from NPS): <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though the tiny insects don’t move far on their own, they can be blown by wind or hitchhike on birds or mammals – including humans - that come into contact with an infested branch. In a similar way, cars, boats, tents, or RVs parked under infested trees may be able to transport the insects to new locations.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">So, clean your boots and NEVER transport wood from one area to another.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-54963790126315312982021-02-14T11:07:00.000-08:002021-02-14T11:07:40.384-08:00Shadows<p> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">I have continued to hike during this latest blast of polar air and steady snowfalls. There's something special about hiking in untouched snow, of seeing the whiteness sparkle in the sunshine. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">I especially like winter hikes when the sun is out because the light bounces and becomes more brilliant. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Here's a look at some shadows on my hike today:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzRAFihixSAc_peFqR0Ps80gUgnmA_GEbeRyWqEP9HOUZUMLLX_9lPKa1p44PCXq-eZlAseQJMgf4CkqksThknOA2w1FJh0xAgXsgHt-ohWfd019OxAD49CkEY5XVysVglAxEuFV5on0/s2048/IMG_0367.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzRAFihixSAc_peFqR0Ps80gUgnmA_GEbeRyWqEP9HOUZUMLLX_9lPKa1p44PCXq-eZlAseQJMgf4CkqksThknOA2w1FJh0xAgXsgHt-ohWfd019OxAD49CkEY5XVysVglAxEuFV5on0/w300-h400/IMG_0367.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">This winter, the Great Lakes have had very little ice coverage. </span></p><h2 itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 40px; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/28065-noaa-reports-january-2021-was-among-the-top-10-warmest-for-u-s-great-lakes-ice-coverage-was-the-smallest-in-decades" itemprop="url" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); color: black; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">NOAA Reports January 2021 was Among the Top-10 Warmest for U.S. - Great Lakes Ice Coverage Was the Smallest In Decades</a></h2><ul class="actions" style="background-color: white; 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color: black; margin-left: 8px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-out 0s;" title="Email this link to a friend"></a></li></ul><dl class="article-info" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px;"></dl><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">On average, </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/2021/02/08/great-lakes-ice-cover-down-22-on-average-since-1973/#//" target="_blank">ice coverage is down 22% since 1973</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Less ice on the lakes means more evaporation and more lake effect snow. Warming waters destabilize the lake's ecosystem making it more vulnerable to disruptions and crashes.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The temperature finally dipped in February and I made my way to the lakeshore to check out ice formation on Lake Michigan. It was brutally cold, in the teens even before the wind chill was considered. It was comfortable (with the correct layering and coat) when hiking with the wind to my back, but walking into the wind was tough.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Check out the icy beach:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZDkdgKC5fbFxdhKd64zF7BR_AZRBsOaywdP-M2ALYBFsMsn81Qnsupooxc3lI8txl7xIYUUsbPKprawEIn_Lr_ul0yU9blq10vm-BcNGzUmV8LlNVQn-zZUSdKMyZrUB7Ov_uCO6NsA/s640/IMG_0343.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZDkdgKC5fbFxdhKd64zF7BR_AZRBsOaywdP-M2ALYBFsMsn81Qnsupooxc3lI8txl7xIYUUsbPKprawEIn_Lr_ul0yU9blq10vm-BcNGzUmV8LlNVQn-zZUSdKMyZrUB7Ov_uCO6NsA/w480-h640/IMG_0343.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #073763; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Did you know that there are otters in the Great Lakes? Have you ever seen one?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">During my adventures, I have seen otters on three of the Great Lakes (Michigan, Huron and Superior). I saw otter tracks on North Manitou Island. I watched them feed as the sun set on Lake Huron.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">This week I took a drive out to Leland (Michigan) and saw something on the ice in the harbor. I parked as the otter finished chewing what it had caught and slid back into the harbor. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">I walked out on a dock to get a closer look and the otter surfaced again, spent some time chewing, then slid back into the water. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Otters are fun to watch, especially if there is more than one. They are playful and animated.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Check out my photo and video from this encounter...and keep your eyes open for your own otter sighting.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='443' height='368' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxknWXRfSII6ULzSoyLNAsxToLRIsBrNKUq9be906FR5PyxnXEnXeTMDC3MXk0j4Ef_TefOfg47ojKNgK_hBg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbSF0uasGh1MOa4UOY5_S0Uq8j3VunGb7mE6Q6rPbiuFDpZTLgFN31Jb5IzzVnSn3Wd0sVS5h0YThGKLCeZreDS3n9oS9INnDg7IWlUXUIfZvtibPosotEzzPMmjZSWTog-wPoZW9usJo/s2048/IMG_0293.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbSF0uasGh1MOa4UOY5_S0Uq8j3VunGb7mE6Q6rPbiuFDpZTLgFN31Jb5IzzVnSn3Wd0sVS5h0YThGKLCeZreDS3n9oS9INnDg7IWlUXUIfZvtibPosotEzzPMmjZSWTog-wPoZW9usJo/w480-h640/IMG_0293.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-68802014981924151522021-01-24T10:19:00.002-08:002021-01-24T11:18:05.289-08:00Snowshoeing Palmer Woods Reserve<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: xx-large;">We're finally getting some snow here in Michigan's NW lower peninsula. I've had my snowshoes in my car for several weeks, but today was the first time I took them out for a hike.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">I've been meaning to get out to the <a href="https://www.leelanauconservancy.org/palmerwoods1000/" target="_blank">Palmer Woods Forest Reserve</a>, one of <a href="https://www.leelanauconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Leelanau Conservancy's</a> properties. This wooded reserve is located about 2.5 miles south of M22 on S. Wheeler Road near Maple City. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQFJmQK7vgOJGd7SikD3ZrYc71b7jY96PQ5MpLd3cfIEy5Tz-eFEfrerzDAkdab8TNgpYwIdjZLrj5NA9FcORA8Usj6KYpBm-ovYUHa-ZxNvtvHgiTtUDDy3cWKHHIrf-nRkcvQLP7Zl0/s640/IMG_0241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQFJmQK7vgOJGd7SikD3ZrYc71b7jY96PQ5MpLd3cfIEy5Tz-eFEfrerzDAkdab8TNgpYwIdjZLrj5NA9FcORA8Usj6KYpBm-ovYUHa-ZxNvtvHgiTtUDDy3cWKHHIrf-nRkcvQLP7Zl0/w480-h640/IMG_0241.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: xx-large;">There are both mountain bike (or fat tire) trails along with trails dedicated for hiking.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: xx-large;">I avoid trails where mountain bikes are allowed during the mild months...I don't like having to watch my back for bikes. During the winter, these trails are quiet, and the dedicated trails make for a relaxing hike.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kSFpY7eTA62Gy_kxnLSGVbWpR9QtTcxvcRm5V7bM0TjdgwEO-NNFsK2roPmsWoH5AyAccsSlbPvV9kg90hjm8A1i9c2Td0pXTa7kBYwmDUuXrZ8G1JW0gI8TjENCKqhXk0vfJX5Pbto/s640/IMG_0242.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kSFpY7eTA62Gy_kxnLSGVbWpR9QtTcxvcRm5V7bM0TjdgwEO-NNFsK2roPmsWoH5AyAccsSlbPvV9kg90hjm8A1i9c2Td0pXTa7kBYwmDUuXrZ8G1JW0gI8TjENCKqhXk0vfJX5Pbto/w480-h640/IMG_0242.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Some of the trails had been groomed for cross-country skiing, so I stayed off those (or hiked off to the side) so as not to mess up the grooming with my snowshoe tracks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Check out some photos and a video from my snowshoeing hike:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1b5wWnSsacXwla79gZ1ApqS0sjlv47rUe7eY0ByVAgskcYAzxztZZV1BSt9R2CloXTvTrvrKyXUfGlcYbeWZRN36kmnBC7VH24Z3o9UUCxQxWGgUx5nNCPKnVEcuY9dfHpY5ukslu6vE/s640/IMG_0235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1b5wWnSsacXwla79gZ1ApqS0sjlv47rUe7eY0ByVAgskcYAzxztZZV1BSt9R2CloXTvTrvrKyXUfGlcYbeWZRN36kmnBC7VH24Z3o9UUCxQxWGgUx5nNCPKnVEcuY9dfHpY5ukslu6vE/w480-h640/IMG_0235.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_m76eODGRCPEJrKtdpsMJVFW9ueKseSWuPmoMHOyWO58g83HUynxR2qzEJNkEx9eSlMupjAA-jARE9Xc43Y2xWl-tL5P4zDS87QsxcXJzxyFmlerFEpSSekOSHLdETz5Ie4N0qz03cK0/s640/IMG_0239.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="640" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_m76eODGRCPEJrKtdpsMJVFW9ueKseSWuPmoMHOyWO58g83HUynxR2qzEJNkEx9eSlMupjAA-jARE9Xc43Y2xWl-tL5P4zDS87QsxcXJzxyFmlerFEpSSekOSHLdETz5Ie4N0qz03cK0/w400-h301/IMG_0239.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='471' height='392' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwhltUWSn7tJQnryl5RRW_2i8zaWI00rNlm0o-WmSi6Dt7tvhBTHNJtGg6VR5TbKLmone8-IpTMSGCl7WGLOw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">The Great Lakes have set a record for lack of ice this year. Read more <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/weather/great-lakes-record-lack-of-ice/index.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-1283594828098280292021-01-13T10:35:00.001-08:002021-01-13T10:36:47.039-08:00Trees<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">I get out to hike at least twice a week no matter the weather. I love being out there in the elements, pushing against the wind, balancing on ice, pushing to get up the next hill.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">There's always something to see.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Wildlife, plants, fungi, tracks, clouds.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">This week, I hiked the trails at the <a href="https://www.thevillagetc.com/" target="_blank">The Village at Grand Traverse Commons</a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;">. There are a few miles of trails </span></span><span style="color: #274e13; text-align: left;">looping through and up some tall, wooded dunes.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">I came across a tree being dismantled by pileated woodpeckers. This bird was the inspiration for 'Woody Woodpecker,' and its call is similar to the laughter of the cartoon character.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Check out these photos and one video:</span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LoqIp3609q1auVabrjkknSa942uPWiqD2mlEZKL4brjqI2hH52xIksxQVZnTLwCjTTis-Em-3fQvwDkhwWgsXl0gqM5_CASs_5JArZYhco1x7tMAMIpB_uME0QRO2bVkEvnDUsxNP8A/s2048/IMG_0199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LoqIp3609q1auVabrjkknSa942uPWiqD2mlEZKL4brjqI2hH52xIksxQVZnTLwCjTTis-Em-3fQvwDkhwWgsXl0gqM5_CASs_5JArZYhco1x7tMAMIpB_uME0QRO2bVkEvnDUsxNP8A/w480-h640/IMG_0199.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">The woodpecker is at the top of the above photo.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgi7ybe3awZjSN_Vb7yelWz2X1LNMveeHvt170cMoqEFJzcCh1208C3HWtKIEuJMNug3HRfR6e1S21QCYtSD7GgOAC65azWxzVngP0hggRSfFjnzQv8wjXqrJybW4Bp8-_PxAAlaWpang/s2048/IMG_0200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgi7ybe3awZjSN_Vb7yelWz2X1LNMveeHvt170cMoqEFJzcCh1208C3HWtKIEuJMNug3HRfR6e1S21QCYtSD7GgOAC65azWxzVngP0hggRSfFjnzQv8wjXqrJybW4Bp8-_PxAAlaWpang/w480-h640/IMG_0200.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrnDv1fNfJVnoqpgB79PShi2Y3TFWXwvkSPGvbX2yBSKzfBlql4QGUptdFKfBc0FhgciWyVvQjhK74ZkVhuXHYT1r7h7ZpiyePZZLJPAwAWx9o60gHKPX4WFbWbbOeQqT3UVfoK8BqIQ/s2048/IMG_0203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrnDv1fNfJVnoqpgB79PShi2Y3TFWXwvkSPGvbX2yBSKzfBlql4QGUptdFKfBc0FhgciWyVvQjhK74ZkVhuXHYT1r7h7ZpiyePZZLJPAwAWx9o60gHKPX4WFbWbbOeQqT3UVfoK8BqIQ/w480-h640/IMG_0203.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='457' height='380' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyEqVV0pkjNHQ055xxN5prT-mhUaBGBa9djnxSmlB6NWN0KVrstnZ_UnLJVJGOhsHmXa6iSoLQ1EL3J1NT58Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">There is a massive hemlock (~12 feet in diameter) on these trails. It's quite a specimen!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJ120J0tCz2Oz7nPRiZrF1rHa1Vg7Gxjf_EHRrvXsjlWSck7ASONXaslCiogN8maMDS9NjKYvluIuxP57MIQXhBPVEQhfrjqBJZltPoF5oxfUJ1EI61PSgM0eAf340rIkdP7S10Z8xX8/s2048/IMG_0204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJ120J0tCz2Oz7nPRiZrF1rHa1Vg7Gxjf_EHRrvXsjlWSck7ASONXaslCiogN8maMDS9NjKYvluIuxP57MIQXhBPVEQhfrjqBJZltPoF5oxfUJ1EI61PSgM0eAf340rIkdP7S10Z8xX8/w400-h300/IMG_0204.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbnFntFaApaQvOduHKMyZXtZI0b4nkhe6ZBF8RPvKijMos6txTPkRXrQE-axYlt7-ZUxUGx77Bg7cPEeCAM_lSYf8gs5vgmmaqCgrc0kucUdTzoLu5idjxAJVGUj4-j9X-jm-sHrDaUA/s2048/IMG_0205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbnFntFaApaQvOduHKMyZXtZI0b4nkhe6ZBF8RPvKijMos6txTPkRXrQE-axYlt7-ZUxUGx77Bg7cPEeCAM_lSYf8gs5vgmmaqCgrc0kucUdTzoLu5idjxAJVGUj4-j9X-jm-sHrDaUA/w400-h300/IMG_0205.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-2706157091677614732021-01-03T07:26:00.004-08:002021-01-03T07:26:35.002-08:00First Hike of 2021<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">My first hike of the New Year was out at the Dune Climb in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">The first dune off the parking lot was dotted with kids on sleds. It's a great ride, even when there's just a dusting of snow.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFK2LACTErum3T_VoUTP4vRbsnhuqBcc98ksPRoS1Gn6EwV9MvTNKFqUeeckCI3NiQIGp-Mrv-7FhIA1Ao4Wj9vDn6uksLdGpWd2FTceRLQOCi7mysmLBvU1ibkOeObgO6uXxdStx8Fb4/s640/IMG_0116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFK2LACTErum3T_VoUTP4vRbsnhuqBcc98ksPRoS1Gn6EwV9MvTNKFqUeeckCI3NiQIGp-Mrv-7FhIA1Ao4Wj9vDn6uksLdGpWd2FTceRLQOCi7mysmLBvU1ibkOeObgO6uXxdStx8Fb4/w400-h300/IMG_0116.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">I love to watch the interplay of sand and snow on these dunes:</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">And the sand and snow reveal which creatures are on the move in the landscape.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfj4bOTE7UXZRZxL_T-YWqlCliQP5aAjHEQlpbFzYwKMPKPy3lK9XlNvbHADbu2eWHoIFAh6eabrFk7nV2wUO-J0KbsgsgdiHhbdW4Cks3FiSsCdmtist7o1HxVN40R65Bt4pwqzb0SMg/s640/IMG_0126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfj4bOTE7UXZRZxL_T-YWqlCliQP5aAjHEQlpbFzYwKMPKPy3lK9XlNvbHADbu2eWHoIFAh6eabrFk7nV2wUO-J0KbsgsgdiHhbdW4Cks3FiSsCdmtist7o1HxVN40R65Bt4pwqzb0SMg/s320/IMG_0126.jpg" /></a></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLVEYZjoV09QaW6EgR0YI0Wc0_vrvmmgy8PxIC7DNg49UKR9jljAXw4gkVRmGlpvi3qc5UNDq7v36QU-3of7uCglDW7SInu5wLNI0Q4hmhP-XVEDUP8C2qqIYKzPCXCXUIFeHA91334A/s640/IMG_0139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLVEYZjoV09QaW6EgR0YI0Wc0_vrvmmgy8PxIC7DNg49UKR9jljAXw4gkVRmGlpvi3qc5UNDq7v36QU-3of7uCglDW7SInu5wLNI0Q4hmhP-XVEDUP8C2qqIYKzPCXCXUIFeHA91334A/s320/IMG_0139.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">I love this landscape in any season. It's an extra-challenging workout when the snow begins to drift amongst the dunes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">A late season freighter moved through the Manitou Passage today (below).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGzGou4qbbJ3Wp4IciBxsmapBrk18e7Hf-1gWG0K5QgFhm0qPiml5zlZx5fXpEbG4qmhQ6mdmGSpKYOtuuXZhRQk9d0tVwFWaeLpwVq3P3fY3NPoz1d_e0xFnotNOt5LwQ12dzpKRydQ/s640/IMG_0153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGzGou4qbbJ3Wp4IciBxsmapBrk18e7Hf-1gWG0K5QgFhm0qPiml5zlZx5fXpEbG4qmhQ6mdmGSpKYOtuuXZhRQk9d0tVwFWaeLpwVq3P3fY3NPoz1d_e0xFnotNOt5LwQ12dzpKRydQ/w480-h640/IMG_0153.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='423' height='352' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dybZhc_S2UUXnqQj4Z_e1r4NYhVtptLhxGYZVPsQGZnbW49F7u8ZKyOq3C7jZac281ILdOX6jnEKpWcx0CsHg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large;">Happy 2021 everyone. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large;">We made it through 2020. Yay!</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-76748714219217452582020-12-30T19:39:00.000-08:002020-12-30T19:39:10.685-08:00Most Popular Post of 2020<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</a></span></span></span></h3><br /><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's the most popular post from 2020:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I hiked part of Sleeping Bear Dunes lakeshore today at Glen Haven.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jhWUIXYy9cIUjIdWG7zSNQ-K5455TWr0Y1_B3OFQOBSeV_k0-mIhHp-ZbxH2pkogP7z1x3KspzkylEmyrLou-i_WFZa2Y5zL9xnpxvh0Pv9OBb7IMHJxC6yapJFi2mUy-g1sAsAeG-k/s1600/2020-03-10+00.47.58.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jhWUIXYy9cIUjIdWG7zSNQ-K5455TWr0Y1_B3OFQOBSeV_k0-mIhHp-ZbxH2pkogP7z1x3KspzkylEmyrLou-i_WFZa2Y5zL9xnpxvh0Pv9OBb7IMHJxC6yapJFi2mUy-g1sAsAeG-k/s400/2020-03-10+00.47.58.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The beaches of Lake Michigan usually appear tan or even whitish in color, but if you pick up a handful of sand and look closely, there is a mixture of colors. Silica and quartz give the sand its light color, but there are specks of black from the mineral <b>magnetite. </b></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This mineral is heavier than the other grains, so it often gathers in bands or patches on the shoreline, sorted by wind and waves.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinB9qr98eru5IkESAKoBzsBkP_9fBdIfXghz1uun5nYcOaYiyF7T4sTG3Vuk6QBAlrQjqrvOI23mqE-Z2CaNL46sUs7LX4Ais_mXj2icdjZOCHXwKynDW7vbX6dCzItkc9kYlaUafoLlo/s1600/2020-03-10+01.02.48.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinB9qr98eru5IkESAKoBzsBkP_9fBdIfXghz1uun5nYcOaYiyF7T4sTG3Vuk6QBAlrQjqrvOI23mqE-Z2CaNL46sUs7LX4Ais_mXj2icdjZOCHXwKynDW7vbX6dCzItkc9kYlaUafoLlo/s400/2020-03-10+01.02.48.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdMefnHeszQi8QIx8UG6I4EuA_-yXpgeXS-fDH8TQqtNSQ08I53AlA05M4gtAfKa87YbQwmjSUBVnY0VsVFCCq8uuZOPRCEAmG68n5WJ1xPeNCJvThbtc3hk9jVBTx0YkpXZNLiYr2Xk/s1600/2020-03-10+01.02.28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdMefnHeszQi8QIx8UG6I4EuA_-yXpgeXS-fDH8TQqtNSQ08I53AlA05M4gtAfKa87YbQwmjSUBVnY0VsVFCCq8uuZOPRCEAmG68n5WJ1xPeNCJvThbtc3hk9jVBTx0YkpXZNLiYr2Xk/s400/2020-03-10+01.02.28.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today, I came across the largest deposit of magnetite I've ever seen along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. A long section of black sand on the beach.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdMefnHeszQi8QIx8UG6I4EuA_-yXpgeXS-fDH8TQqtNSQ08I53AlA05M4gtAfKa87YbQwmjSUBVnY0VsVFCCq8uuZOPRCEAmG68n5WJ1xPeNCJvThbtc3hk9jVBTx0YkpXZNLiYr2Xk/s1600/2020-03-10+01.02.28.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWorF8qcJFnEpUc85n0W2Eqj50jWANHKjaZrh82koXGipmw_uLdsFHyuE8SJET2P5FRVkF_-pbemZ41jhUcsVs4lfOhqMBbEKGFHmkj5c5zWSTIkfatN4socnpqnDPqUExbG2djHNZuo/s1600/2020-03-10+00.55.42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWorF8qcJFnEpUc85n0W2Eqj50jWANHKjaZrh82koXGipmw_uLdsFHyuE8SJET2P5FRVkF_-pbemZ41jhUcsVs4lfOhqMBbEKGFHmkj5c5zWSTIkfatN4socnpqnDPqUExbG2djHNZuo/s400/2020-03-10+00.55.42.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeCe80oCCQvDQA4W7gKBrRAaLykq_a8SH7_Qx3EY2uIlJdKA5uw-wIgFYskewyTKoN0OXWcDZgm3qDVIV6ykxGkHz_DrHJ7jhaMVsfnl9X59uIT9quL-D0TwgwRpO-nAzeJr2NzcBTzY/s1600/2020-03-10+00.55.52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeCe80oCCQvDQA4W7gKBrRAaLykq_a8SH7_Qx3EY2uIlJdKA5uw-wIgFYskewyTKoN0OXWcDZgm3qDVIV6ykxGkHz_DrHJ7jhaMVsfnl9X59uIT9quL-D0TwgwRpO-nAzeJr2NzcBTzY/s400/2020-03-10+00.55.52.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wave action has been strong along the lakeshore this winter, and the lake level set an all-time high earlier this year. This has led to increased amounts of magnetite deposited on the shoreline.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Watch the video below to see how deep the deposit was:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw6WgcD5buCf69ngjxLVru61pdeTGivWhh3sxwNQvjjT29C0sZ1oYTRCrQLWwOkuw-NAKEw5lP6KZAcFelb7g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cOaiWu4sVOSAT2OhuWYUlraCTdR38MW1g0x4u1n3kaHgPMh95nVfSQiuhUY5WRenvLeFn7HIaDL5QVk4JtssXTE9wGBF4X1IDO3EmEYexvrf90lgqhS9zaEW9DAOX_C1LDaaN3lvsqE/s1600/2020-03-10+00.54.59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cOaiWu4sVOSAT2OhuWYUlraCTdR38MW1g0x4u1n3kaHgPMh95nVfSQiuhUY5WRenvLeFn7HIaDL5QVk4JtssXTE9wGBF4X1IDO3EmEYexvrf90lgqhS9zaEW9DAOX_C1LDaaN3lvsqE/s400/2020-03-10+00.54.59.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes, this mineral has been on the beaches for a long time. Here's a post I did about these black sands over a decade ago:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://laketrek.blogspot.com/2009/06/black-sand.html">https://laketrek.blogspot.com/2009/06/black-sand.html</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-37321634679015558702020-11-29T13:02:00.003-08:002020-11-29T13:05:10.676-08:00Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Part 3)<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Here's the final photo essay of my October hike </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">along Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">(Thanks to April for sharing her stunning photos.)</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzuAt3NiCMFhtsQsNQcjHPo_GvWj_cYdZRLyygCxGr4NE63FWzXD-ZbOt0mpzthBhylvsESLECDlyGkoI7uhm7MVKvUCQM16EBMJV7Ku1oUNrsGHpuohLzsmTvEV6NbWxGsPdRvWDLvU/s2048/20201025_164144_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzuAt3NiCMFhtsQsNQcjHPo_GvWj_cYdZRLyygCxGr4NE63FWzXD-ZbOt0mpzthBhylvsESLECDlyGkoI7uhm7MVKvUCQM16EBMJV7Ku1oUNrsGHpuohLzsmTvEV6NbWxGsPdRvWDLvU/w400-h300/20201025_164144_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Me, Julie, and Zan</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCpp3yz1OE9mLBRilSyF8lUUlsL8Rp8DJyyYciXoWpQBqVOsS4S90d74CNM13_Aqi2Yl5sGxTb7aQnPNUq3ap1a8nZsUPk5fHsQi5oEXb_m4vvZfEnsC9bVoytfNvw0i6KZPoHDQF6Wc/s2048/20201025_160735_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCpp3yz1OE9mLBRilSyF8lUUlsL8Rp8DJyyYciXoWpQBqVOsS4S90d74CNM13_Aqi2Yl5sGxTb7aQnPNUq3ap1a8nZsUPk5fHsQi5oEXb_m4vvZfEnsC9bVoytfNvw0i6KZPoHDQF6Wc/w400-h300/20201025_160735_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>One of the many rivers along the lakeshore</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVghSee2zLZ1S3Vbd6sG6IlSUx2OBew90v332Q6rGVQymlUNXH7j_b8uNnjVCpKTr7sfav35ktk41ky3L9xhWB2wH9lKsKmmhOIGThknt97Yo90K9Mbre6zk0QUaPa9YW_AuDpSGGwKu4/s2048/20201026_105832_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVghSee2zLZ1S3Vbd6sG6IlSUx2OBew90v332Q6rGVQymlUNXH7j_b8uNnjVCpKTr7sfav35ktk41ky3L9xhWB2wH9lKsKmmhOIGThknt97Yo90K9Mbre6zk0QUaPa9YW_AuDpSGGwKu4/w480-h640/20201026_105832_2.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Wonderful rocky beach</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PcOi2YwVMmW4PPY2CvETGKQZxPwo1nRqFDRt0hL0Epeg3BkW1BBsF1KSxc3cNoSc7eOV_K4L13qbCA-5LbDKQeEU9VLyV3NObCCqsXMsjxyo0YEd7qcv7VJkX1mmt_ZB2KRninsyjlI/s2048/20201026_111101_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PcOi2YwVMmW4PPY2CvETGKQZxPwo1nRqFDRt0hL0Epeg3BkW1BBsF1KSxc3cNoSc7eOV_K4L13qbCA-5LbDKQeEU9VLyV3NObCCqsXMsjxyo0YEd7qcv7VJkX1mmt_ZB2KRninsyjlI/w480-h640/20201026_111101_2.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Chain coral</h2><span style="font-size: x-large;">One of the best things about hiking in a group is that everyone brings their own experience and knowledge to the hike. This group of women have collectively hiked thousands of miles and bring so much to the experience of hiking together. <br /><br />On this hike, Julie introduced us to the wintergreen plant and berry.<br /><br />If you've had wintergreen gum, you've tasted this distinctive flavor. It's much better to munch the little berries fresh off the plant!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiwf1s4uO71FUUaXwvkeGLfviPRqRjrY6fwXeTbQk9fMgam7rSuK9qq6qv1tXlUIHetInsHcIxGWKkxz2ry_cYyPmr_544ubDFml_9OsujZ7gqlL6L9k7Ilk_JIclRxC7eQlifVpmErEs/s2048/20201027_110955.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiwf1s4uO71FUUaXwvkeGLfviPRqRjrY6fwXeTbQk9fMgam7rSuK9qq6qv1tXlUIHetInsHcIxGWKkxz2ry_cYyPmr_544ubDFml_9OsujZ7gqlL6L9k7Ilk_JIclRxC7eQlifVpmErEs/w480-h640/20201027_110955.heic" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The leaves can also be used to brew tea. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb_2ZeTaHZzmQ5knoJT02gMqvOXgNiCWXTns3KW7A9yXLQwuuo7u21Mt2Eiw3EQdbPGQ_BYiQEEKNWRvyOOUutUMqZRqVIEdlwukpQnSu1pYQVOMTtuNnv8TfgJJ3FFlGm0QhvCHEyJQ/s2048/20201028_135116.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb_2ZeTaHZzmQ5knoJT02gMqvOXgNiCWXTns3KW7A9yXLQwuuo7u21Mt2Eiw3EQdbPGQ_BYiQEEKNWRvyOOUutUMqZRqVIEdlwukpQnSu1pYQVOMTtuNnv8TfgJJ3FFlGm0QhvCHEyJQ/w400-h300/20201028_135116.heic" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are a few more stunning shots of this National Lakeshore:</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbScnxuSTm5qUx8KUabsBKHV22kDFK5UwmYCOtKeH6NcIAqGnpMeHyV8elEvkdllzpqtr00DJiA5BCVQrApEZnlEBXGsjZRWOhB7ok28WhZzJPDVV3WuPyldCSAEE7g5nJlQXTh0HIvg/s2048/20201027_114345_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbScnxuSTm5qUx8KUabsBKHV22kDFK5UwmYCOtKeH6NcIAqGnpMeHyV8elEvkdllzpqtr00DJiA5BCVQrApEZnlEBXGsjZRWOhB7ok28WhZzJPDVV3WuPyldCSAEE7g5nJlQXTh0HIvg/w480-h640/20201027_114345_2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6PNvHO_jbrNLCWwGGOpL5gN3aUUPOeJDfpUJ6X50k7suQ92nfXSiOm4qG4glcLIniUd-A6h1GxSXGCf-OEfEVmWWqqhYRybV8ZdxfBB9vz9BY8AASPe1D5dvo2bT-sXGOWN-atqhYvo/s2048/20201027_133654_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6PNvHO_jbrNLCWwGGOpL5gN3aUUPOeJDfpUJ6X50k7suQ92nfXSiOm4qG4glcLIniUd-A6h1GxSXGCf-OEfEVmWWqqhYRybV8ZdxfBB9vz9BY8AASPe1D5dvo2bT-sXGOWN-atqhYvo/w400-h300/20201027_133654_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwDSxHwOUzb6i9TEYPy8ARDFTw4EGhRaw0vXtn_sv1Ih8tVeiX3wKGYWm5WiXIBKU7LfZfAkBIBrOYle1aoidMXexYudYIGNWUIs2Z0ID1zFW6PDos0ow6qnT4Yc37B_SHH2W6IYoTu8/s2048/20201027_144703_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1973" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwDSxHwOUzb6i9TEYPy8ARDFTw4EGhRaw0vXtn_sv1Ih8tVeiX3wKGYWm5WiXIBKU7LfZfAkBIBrOYle1aoidMXexYudYIGNWUIs2Z0ID1zFW6PDos0ow6qnT4Yc37B_SHH2W6IYoTu8/w384-h400/20201027_144703_2.jpg" width="384" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Chapel Rock</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdbuE3YF7tpcLfAaImQJMAHo8yVmzR6RgvX-m81Wbdh-9S9vweu0qhgYbANHG97NgGGB0I0-CEmlYXd2yW8EMWidhF3vjBFOQiwZT5KoiYX-w9k9guD6zKcCthXciSdkhdxm7DWxz0q58/s2048/20201027_155900_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdbuE3YF7tpcLfAaImQJMAHo8yVmzR6RgvX-m81Wbdh-9S9vweu0qhgYbANHG97NgGGB0I0-CEmlYXd2yW8EMWidhF3vjBFOQiwZT5KoiYX-w9k9guD6zKcCthXciSdkhdxm7DWxz0q58/w480-h640/20201027_155900_2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNxrnuSGzsBfRKfmPgEgQXJ7XKXA3z_LtYpokFTTijh0wmKPU6OuHp8DUDXpFZrjSEnLiJ-QJjIEX3jOh1q7jo9_PuL-m4BVM6oJZf_w8pWgR73rQ6stqybpSlydFMb3xYA5vR3u3zAE/s2048/20201027_162218.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNxrnuSGzsBfRKfmPgEgQXJ7XKXA3z_LtYpokFTTijh0wmKPU6OuHp8DUDXpFZrjSEnLiJ-QJjIEX3jOh1q7jo9_PuL-m4BVM6oJZf_w8pWgR73rQ6stqybpSlydFMb3xYA5vR3u3zAE/w400-h300/20201027_162218.heic" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mAGKFtmSO5vGDe2wp2_3PwHI7C4rF1KvI6ZzQ2ak5E-i_tEMx46kyV-oYiZFoosIlcYNxrrQ8w70yoTP8HgNielGHxU_-B-vLnXHK179d-iFddokcZPtMUCo3PH6IVDhCJ3kYhOmAJQ/s2048/20201028_155951_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mAGKFtmSO5vGDe2wp2_3PwHI7C4rF1KvI6ZzQ2ak5E-i_tEMx46kyV-oYiZFoosIlcYNxrrQ8w70yoTP8HgNielGHxU_-B-vLnXHK179d-iFddokcZPtMUCo3PH6IVDhCJ3kYhOmAJQ/w480-h640/20201028_155951_2.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Miners Castle </h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBXHJIpO26EGsqcTuQ80Ebwep1HtHj-zWQB4rN1ZqyzEP5WhsGrW-0vvpvBaAsnWoqf3iGTuJ6FyZqr15svTnnMdLB86yQUel-A6BNyyc2ApmZlo-Fz1xD6J_tXL1ZeYjOAo__47oqFs/s2048/P1000515.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBXHJIpO26EGsqcTuQ80Ebwep1HtHj-zWQB4rN1ZqyzEP5WhsGrW-0vvpvBaAsnWoqf3iGTuJ6FyZqr15svTnnMdLB86yQUel-A6BNyyc2ApmZlo-Fz1xD6J_tXL1ZeYjOAo__47oqFs/w480-h640/P1000515.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Happy on the trail</h2></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-35146285107565020742020-11-10T13:56:00.002-08:002020-11-10T13:56:50.683-08:00November Surprise<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">This November has been surprising so far (on many levels). The weather has been amazingly warm this first 10 days. Yesterday, Traverse City broke a high temp record from 1896! And not just by a degree or two, but by <b>5 degrees</b>!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">So, of course, I went kayaking on that warmest day and hiked several other days.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSclDXdsEaZibtadQnjaGtY3ouT9CcpUvyOlEhUFTW2sRrgq-h8bgzGgUVoO2EzrXK-7jleABaBECsQKQRF9x9w_r_ado2rDwwlhb4n3Uy-gTr1XDs1djIw0wG5zWiHY4dReEK9lRBq0/s4608/2020-11-11+00.36.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSclDXdsEaZibtadQnjaGtY3ouT9CcpUvyOlEhUFTW2sRrgq-h8bgzGgUVoO2EzrXK-7jleABaBECsQKQRF9x9w_r_ado2rDwwlhb4n3Uy-gTr1XDs1djIw0wG5zWiHY4dReEK9lRBq0/w400-h300/2020-11-11+00.36.48.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">I kayaked my favorite small lake nearby, Cedar Lake. I noticed there are more than one 'Cedar Lakes' around Traverse City. This one is just west of Long Lake, west of Traverse City.</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKm4yIi22-01T9MoMJFd836zPJ4r2k3zblpGDwk8TVzmtwIJW6hegQlJyT9gK1TihExI3ZxmdMLaoVLljQ2Vsy3IpguzK5Q_Q3XtLM8SrAqoQ2C5RjFQ5oQx4VuP-K0N0LrEWsLMZHIQ/s4608/2020-11-11+00.51.51.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKm4yIi22-01T9MoMJFd836zPJ4r2k3zblpGDwk8TVzmtwIJW6hegQlJyT9gK1TihExI3ZxmdMLaoVLljQ2Vsy3IpguzK5Q_Q3XtLM8SrAqoQ2C5RjFQ5oQx4VuP-K0N0LrEWsLMZHIQ/w480-h640/2020-11-11+00.51.51.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_Q-V48EaYqeTZiHO1KXaXeKuXdkWIGdSZIsILVUSpudIqI958DB21rWXISeYNOy1CPVS6ceJTGZsEtzpXzLBmHHc7t822rvK9_-rb_zNvUB4cHDccd0QC4vaCDquz_X082p3rJyXMUY/s4608/2020-11-11+00.59.44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_Q-V48EaYqeTZiHO1KXaXeKuXdkWIGdSZIsILVUSpudIqI958DB21rWXISeYNOy1CPVS6ceJTGZsEtzpXzLBmHHc7t822rvK9_-rb_zNvUB4cHDccd0QC4vaCDquz_X082p3rJyXMUY/w480-h640/2020-11-11+00.59.44.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_QtSY5-NyV3pxrq_FoTQQD4Mwf6DS3qhcD-wSu8Bd5ayrrs6NEpOZb59jRIi_HonOs7KV9C_08U0zvojlDqM6wbAFobZqfKyqEofiiIfgfH_M0-G8bWkPu-Tf-PnhvGp8tzQGoomYGM/s4608/2020-11-11+01.14.09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_QtSY5-NyV3pxrq_FoTQQD4Mwf6DS3qhcD-wSu8Bd5ayrrs6NEpOZb59jRIi_HonOs7KV9C_08U0zvojlDqM6wbAFobZqfKyqEofiiIfgfH_M0-G8bWkPu-Tf-PnhvGp8tzQGoomYGM/w480-h640/2020-11-11+01.14.09.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">Today, I headed to the big lake to walk the lakeshore. Since the temps were starting to dip and some rain fell, I had the entire beach to myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">Lovely.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNZP57UDZwVi242OTt9tAvcqXfqtGv6KXMyUmlhzjklEfK1Ks5OtHMtiitWWgByF8os0MNQeHtcTVIiLnhFFmzVv3OFvTO9LVnMTUllEKifoNgEkZvmj-__dmZSsPkz6qychCqwizXDg/s4608/2020-11-11+23.50.04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNZP57UDZwVi242OTt9tAvcqXfqtGv6KXMyUmlhzjklEfK1Ks5OtHMtiitWWgByF8os0MNQeHtcTVIiLnhFFmzVv3OFvTO9LVnMTUllEKifoNgEkZvmj-__dmZSsPkz6qychCqwizXDg/w400-h300/2020-11-11+23.50.04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">With the lake levels rising this year, the shoreline showed evidence of erosion.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2u0m3EtcOfxh2ypGWGOV749nX9cAraGMyCIwLMAq0LZ-rMuvUXnAydrKvmpBgFfI4nrzNnTeOowX7afAThuqvmXZE6PdQLfjrqgLYua5mgIlYN5nKG-hXpDkJPbkJVRNlsj6NUe-nMU/s4608/2020-11-12+00.12.11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2u0m3EtcOfxh2ypGWGOV749nX9cAraGMyCIwLMAq0LZ-rMuvUXnAydrKvmpBgFfI4nrzNnTeOowX7afAThuqvmXZE6PdQLfjrqgLYua5mgIlYN5nKG-hXpDkJPbkJVRNlsj6NUe-nMU/w400-h300/2020-11-12+00.12.11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1lhoSPPeSg-1W8i0x-t9C0nP_5U1wDwOkEDu2z8TO3gXILCDUphuYfiI9IaKm2plWV72ENXuOme-6aOmwh1tDup7Y21lNzDBvsaYTs3P0m6wj11Gsm1kdj_n3hHkF8FLpQMCisPEkZdE/s4608/2020-11-12+00.18.45.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1lhoSPPeSg-1W8i0x-t9C0nP_5U1wDwOkEDu2z8TO3gXILCDUphuYfiI9IaKm2plWV72ENXuOme-6aOmwh1tDup7Y21lNzDBvsaYTs3P0m6wj11Gsm1kdj_n3hHkF8FLpQMCisPEkZdE/w400-h300/2020-11-12+00.18.45.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlCsJsGIChC6HmAcXBb1ElbpunRWZtKUT9xQBSJ5yyXCgeVRc2PVy6A_3wGl47VDZ2Cvz0marw0QkOpJluK-Gqf3BAQ5XIFiqlLiR1hprrV0TKaxtzYJiaqZ2EA1masFnlSPeD4rxgPI/s2048/IMG_7582.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlCsJsGIChC6HmAcXBb1ElbpunRWZtKUT9xQBSJ5yyXCgeVRc2PVy6A_3wGl47VDZ2Cvz0marw0QkOpJluK-Gqf3BAQ5XIFiqlLiR1hprrV0TKaxtzYJiaqZ2EA1masFnlSPeD4rxgPI/w480-h640/IMG_7582.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVnThCTR7CpyH3SserJPRNWZr3NSorDqacJ3r6WNNtLfPQYiwklbjZAjsSW0kOFTx_qpxjROra2wz0GCaelnLYN6bcKjm_8NBUUrDhxQQUUFR2kUkzHvzuG9gOCnwk-02EvITDQtgXcw/s2048/IMG_7581.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVnThCTR7CpyH3SserJPRNWZr3NSorDqacJ3r6WNNtLfPQYiwklbjZAjsSW0kOFTx_qpxjROra2wz0GCaelnLYN6bcKjm_8NBUUrDhxQQUUFR2kUkzHvzuG9gOCnwk-02EvITDQtgXcw/w480-h640/IMG_7581.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">The lake was turquoise and white-capped. Bands of rain clouds hovered over the lake in the distance. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2e1LoNx1Iu_-8iKqBgfhyphenhypheno3cfgWqwFIdbHuHF3m5rKTUgbXlEKv77C6sVsfHR49mxDXNSLmnGZLzAVImjT74u8Y0I_8xVEYYOoVE3XCdM2zvL-hTX-EGJbkWm8_sS-jki5Q-s6nCLHE/s4608/2020-11-11+23.50.00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2e1LoNx1Iu_-8iKqBgfhyphenhypheno3cfgWqwFIdbHuHF3m5rKTUgbXlEKv77C6sVsfHR49mxDXNSLmnGZLzAVImjT74u8Y0I_8xVEYYOoVE3XCdM2zvL-hTX-EGJbkWm8_sS-jki5Q-s6nCLHE/w400-h300/2020-11-11+23.50.00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: xx-large;">Still my favorite place.</span></div><p> </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-19792721574022445032020-11-08T15:35:00.001-08:002020-11-08T15:35:38.644-08:00Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Part 2)<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;">With nights in the low 30s and high 20s, we gathered around a fire some nights. April even brought along some popcorn to pop over the fire. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;">YUM!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOl-eYJ24PSjk-vVSLXCB1nRoGs_CSDfxPUF1wXjkb3yLxBlyx7TxLLJhtpJmx4Zn82BSNG9-fx_Z-PZqjB-_Z4WXz0xQHijYOMJ5NF-04g29sl5aGVCUVS5N79LfikuavcF6g4kLau3s/s2048/IMG_8120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOl-eYJ24PSjk-vVSLXCB1nRoGs_CSDfxPUF1wXjkb3yLxBlyx7TxLLJhtpJmx4Zn82BSNG9-fx_Z-PZqjB-_Z4WXz0xQHijYOMJ5NF-04g29sl5aGVCUVS5N79LfikuavcF6g4kLau3s/w400-h300/IMG_8120.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRSZYHe0hYveWKdbNmERC1imRtH45LPItLpVbajs62LfpxObw1pvIOl9BsEvZ0TOYq930pN2yCkayzb_JfybLeMcu3wZXAuBFzVGeaVgmLeQZlM7XYOYBTJlHvpnhZY2E3v9FKepPGjlA/s2048/IMG_8122.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRSZYHe0hYveWKdbNmERC1imRtH45LPItLpVbajs62LfpxObw1pvIOl9BsEvZ0TOYq930pN2yCkayzb_JfybLeMcu3wZXAuBFzVGeaVgmLeQZlM7XYOYBTJlHvpnhZY2E3v9FKepPGjlA/w400-h300/IMG_8122.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;">The scenery was breathtaking at times, even for those in the group who had hiked here before.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYnjgGYVGRPz1Wl_vP16mpSI77rv824GLvYGsy9_ykgb3lng2EjT8YuyvyqyU7fEyCwFKvYQLiQFzfEEAzcEePZY744tojaj6R0n9eFnMCKRJY91N74HaSzp00hlLbhCe1YMZ8s-JLOI/s4608/P1000681.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYnjgGYVGRPz1Wl_vP16mpSI77rv824GLvYGsy9_ykgb3lng2EjT8YuyvyqyU7fEyCwFKvYQLiQFzfEEAzcEePZY744tojaj6R0n9eFnMCKRJY91N74HaSzp00hlLbhCe1YMZ8s-JLOI/w400-h300/P1000681.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: x-large;">The most stunning formation in this National Lakeshore is Chapel Rock (below and in video). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;">This sandstone pedestal has been separated from the shoreline by erosion, but the lone pine tree on the formation still lives there, attached to the shoreline by long roots. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;">This tree is over 200 years old.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlY568-Qt-Ds53bFo5lmgGRwlW1Q_YTO73HLmSbx7xi6DFPa2vjAVBpUEJq1f6TxiVNIAHtx6TWiNuoreCN9Ebyt8pVuR_uM5mKikyiUWzdj2fDZs8gjvHvZrnqhisqF-WnvAoDpG7n8/s2048/P1000704.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlY568-Qt-Ds53bFo5lmgGRwlW1Q_YTO73HLmSbx7xi6DFPa2vjAVBpUEJq1f6TxiVNIAHtx6TWiNuoreCN9Ebyt8pVuR_uM5mKikyiUWzdj2fDZs8gjvHvZrnqhisqF-WnvAoDpG7n8/w480-h640/P1000704.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='482' height='401' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzZLAjNfvRMxQC1pt1BPZreK2QszL_lc5siAFl6QWQXumEzGc7G4TI_PwIZD8oe6l21JYqfOgwF8l4yiC1Pmg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-34632176577701348782020-11-01T07:48:00.001-08:002020-11-01T07:48:05.260-08:00Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Part 1)<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: x-large;">I met up with my hiking friends and headed to America's first designated National Lakeshore,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: x-large;"><b>Pictured Rocks,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: x-large;">along the northern edge of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: x-large;">Yes, it was snowy and chilly and exhilarating. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_RIuN6g2EItm0t9gq-qgO9TadVZ-CB5ia-vZsCbuFm4tQhkXrIwL62ZJpFvYOvzjspTiyQ5iQi_oIkudytRkkcAAfRbxM6iIBnvifgYlGwwbEyYi1Ka5vksenSgiVfspkXmTPkrmT2g/s2048/P1000506.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_RIuN6g2EItm0t9gq-qgO9TadVZ-CB5ia-vZsCbuFm4tQhkXrIwL62ZJpFvYOvzjspTiyQ5iQi_oIkudytRkkcAAfRbxM6iIBnvifgYlGwwbEyYi1Ka5vksenSgiVfspkXmTPkrmT2g/w480-h640/P1000506.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Me, Zan, Julie and April</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveNjE4SfdLAd5sT96O614TZObJVeaur0lY3ADqVHSUd_PSMmc8B_ncXg_To8habVTNVFYD22ARbcuwjv03pNa_ZutNbe421gBv4oNlchijtD2TYHQMYmfJFeONA3p2l3Xkf_LwGU2jYc/s4608/P1000528.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveNjE4SfdLAd5sT96O614TZObJVeaur0lY3ADqVHSUd_PSMmc8B_ncXg_To8habVTNVFYD22ARbcuwjv03pNa_ZutNbe421gBv4oNlchijtD2TYHQMYmfJFeONA3p2l3Xkf_LwGU2jYc/w400-h300/P1000528.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>The Au Sable Lighthouse</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismKqYDDdeEtqPbEQCUoStuYZG9d87vGrqzGtW4ndZcoIPOvrS9htLaua9mkBtth4V2-U0EFJ59S8yXvhB0OfaGcKlXEOrPe5ReylfltTwTlheGI51QYCu-CCyLWUJ5mqGNR4vBMvJ7WM/s4608/P1000537.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismKqYDDdeEtqPbEQCUoStuYZG9d87vGrqzGtW4ndZcoIPOvrS9htLaua9mkBtth4V2-U0EFJ59S8yXvhB0OfaGcKlXEOrPe5ReylfltTwTlheGI51QYCu-CCyLWUJ5mqGNR4vBMvJ7WM/w400-h300/P1000537.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Snowy campsite at Benchmark campground</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qaXS2f0d8EHEnFEaN31gn6o2CoFyZ7TGA6J49x14i2OhkRGh6Z6FT9TuO5RXrKuls_lQlTuBnI0GTKTfAhMr47NtPvKsD0YSNNKhxttVPwkfNKLfKcPmGAoJWSekkviA2_mCzHnnoxg/s2048/P1000554.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qaXS2f0d8EHEnFEaN31gn6o2CoFyZ7TGA6J49x14i2OhkRGh6Z6FT9TuO5RXrKuls_lQlTuBnI0GTKTfAhMr47NtPvKsD0YSNNKhxttVPwkfNKLfKcPmGAoJWSekkviA2_mCzHnnoxg/w480-h640/P1000554.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: xx-large;">There is a 12-mile stretch of beach along the lakeshore. We hiked several miles here at the edge of Lake Superior.</span></p><p><br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5a2vyoIGAWRN5-mqgGcNiF5-RXJOz3V1sm0CaULvRwHX4vnJz2o9JZFcNsrMwze9zP3cUj51P8EPu22YfXTK2We1hMRRMcYkITygHPmDnWT0Z2IEOCjvJ44et8eE3sjrnagmgh8Nr_Rc/s4608/P1000564.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5a2vyoIGAWRN5-mqgGcNiF5-RXJOz3V1sm0CaULvRwHX4vnJz2o9JZFcNsrMwze9zP3cUj51P8EPu22YfXTK2We1hMRRMcYkITygHPmDnWT0Z2IEOCjvJ44et8eE3sjrnagmgh8Nr_Rc/w400-h300/P1000564.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Lake Superior Rocks</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BE1FnxfuFYJg5WcMC7t6mAbXX4yngnRgmgoUJS01lKNj79X0tF19rl4WtGb_k0ZwlGXr-DnOari_kVHGOiREBjgfIkOiJLK9UrqBSW8DobqIs9WNaPjiU3a9mZk6MAJ7LnfzX5RyRLg/s2048/P1000656.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BE1FnxfuFYJg5WcMC7t6mAbXX4yngnRgmgoUJS01lKNj79X0tF19rl4WtGb_k0ZwlGXr-DnOari_kVHGOiREBjgfIkOiJLK9UrqBSW8DobqIs9WNaPjiU3a9mZk6MAJ7LnfzX5RyRLg/w480-h640/P1000656.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2>Can you find me in this photo? </h2><div><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: xx-large;">Massive sandstone formations dominate the western portion of the lakeshore. It's difficult to get the scale of these formations until you find the person in the shot.</span></div><div><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: xx-large;">We hiked five days...more to come.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-86831666559471771182020-10-21T13:04:00.001-07:002020-10-21T13:33:39.299-07:00Happy 50th Sleeping Bear Dunes!<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Sleeping Bear Dunes is celebrating 50 years as a </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">National Lakeshore.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;">Today, I joined up with fellow volunteers with the <a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes</a> to greet visitors at the Dune Climb. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;">We masked up and offered hot chocolate and information about our wonderful lakeshore.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;">We met visitors from Ohio and from all over Michigan. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;">The mission of the Friends group:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Protecting resources and heightening visitor experiences in partnership with Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore."</span></em></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5pqR12VlTSH-OG5AkiMo06y5SiBojwBC9BEAuVRI3YKmJQS8-mpYOrsXETeP0C9x3ttPAkzLzngyCApGEZ4wHZjZ4q6zMnrirFjDjWlcNDCOU8S6umwxuROV36VShIkeaU5TSpfLcA8/s4608/P1030597.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5pqR12VlTSH-OG5AkiMo06y5SiBojwBC9BEAuVRI3YKmJQS8-mpYOrsXETeP0C9x3ttPAkzLzngyCApGEZ4wHZjZ4q6zMnrirFjDjWlcNDCOU8S6umwxuROV36VShIkeaU5TSpfLcA8/w400-h300/P1030597.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTZJI8dWYQR6RrpggQGxaJaKw6C4XP_m6esfZwVmXqkv-U1NRRSpIvlQ-Q3WyMdz6yioxqwx-lbSVJUuibKM2tef-W2fA1jwKyqRkI9OhmXIAC0pgMlSTTm3iGS0kFupwttr7R4we3wg/s4608/P1030599.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTZJI8dWYQR6RrpggQGxaJaKw6C4XP_m6esfZwVmXqkv-U1NRRSpIvlQ-Q3WyMdz6yioxqwx-lbSVJUuibKM2tef-W2fA1jwKyqRkI9OhmXIAC0pgMlSTTm3iGS0kFupwttr7R4we3wg/w400-h300/P1030599.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Masked up to meet visitors!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSc9zSxbZ7hm-mnnTJTozLZF8aX5xO8rnm5f7bOWD3QCh10X-2SB2eygzNyPxoDa_1INnd0sKNxyqNgzEZ4ueBof-ktJ626lgH-TqPdzVVg9y4PHXsw5G7Dm2ZzetXUSg9PkIckoJCp8/s4608/P1030600.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSc9zSxbZ7hm-mnnTJTozLZF8aX5xO8rnm5f7bOWD3QCh10X-2SB2eygzNyPxoDa_1INnd0sKNxyqNgzEZ4ueBof-ktJ626lgH-TqPdzVVg9y4PHXsw5G7Dm2ZzetXUSg9PkIckoJCp8/w480-h640/P1030600.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Anniversary merch can be purchased at <a href="http://FriendsofSleepingBear.org">FriendsofSleepingBear.org</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkN-gG6NVjyMLqT2NWH0OnpeiFkqLGuSJyEPHlm6TJvSODiUBbMpfgZdQrR31BfAS_VGytSzNGp8SwuRNhvXooF-8x5v8BJeJTWwIssJRtRPP-gir9eyUNl8p7NNWDXTaHu39zfYhtdvg/s4608/P1030601.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkN-gG6NVjyMLqT2NWH0OnpeiFkqLGuSJyEPHlm6TJvSODiUBbMpfgZdQrR31BfAS_VGytSzNGp8SwuRNhvXooF-8x5v8BJeJTWwIssJRtRPP-gir9eyUNl8p7NNWDXTaHu39zfYhtdvg/w480-h640/P1030601.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;">Hundreds of volunteers give thousands of hours each year to improve and protect this wonderful park.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Volunteers from the Friends are involved in the following activities on a routine basis:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">manage Adopt-A-Beach, Adopt-A-River, Adopt-A-Trail</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">manage the maintenance and Trail Ambassador program for the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Support the park in developing new trails</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">manage field mowing to preserve historic agricultural landscapes</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">publish 13 visitor guide booklets about the science and history of the area</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">provide housing stipend for Interns</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">provide funding for NPS project grant requests</span></li></ul><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Learn more:</span></li><li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/" style="font-size: xxx-large;" target="_blank">Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xxx-large;"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269017532856044856.post-54467841806800276462020-09-13T07:35:00.001-07:002020-09-13T07:35:49.487-07:00Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Trails<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. </span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/</span></a></span></span></h3><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #3d84c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I have enjoyed being an Adopt-A-Trail volunteer this year for the <a href="https://friendsofsleepingbear.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes</a>. Each month (April thru September), volunteers hike their assigned trail and report on any downed trees, pick up trash, and greet visitors on the trail.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">My trail is the Farms Trail which is part of the <a href="https://www.michigantrailmaps.com/member-detail/sleeping-bear-dunes-bay-view-trail/" target="_blank">Bay View</a> series of trails.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdqrHbNTLgZOEgbPOsA_iSHeO-tmuoYmVNUfGF5n2eWlS1KBqXHEEyf4hxriBaXllJ8eNQH-3M2ZY75SM1nnWpFNKmBl2MJr_wwunQjOcfvVmtPiUKWdsxaUOUB3R1JLJr1LDsdSf5qc/s4608/P1030583.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdqrHbNTLgZOEgbPOsA_iSHeO-tmuoYmVNUfGF5n2eWlS1KBqXHEEyf4hxriBaXllJ8eNQH-3M2ZY75SM1nnWpFNKmBl2MJr_wwunQjOcfvVmtPiUKWdsxaUOUB3R1JLJr1LDsdSf5qc/w500-h375/P1030583.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-V4dq8pzFUK5Z-gmQHCmbHoFEoqJYaL2EurMPAVwRzmR1AJpKZ5GBw8BJIZHtZNNAhzAQIKYbSL7Msx4-NOvbKuMZbIyToBrZP-oGBasnm9JmBhn96aGmeU0FR0i35EhahBxpbi_glE/s4608/P1030581.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-V4dq8pzFUK5Z-gmQHCmbHoFEoqJYaL2EurMPAVwRzmR1AJpKZ5GBw8BJIZHtZNNAhzAQIKYbSL7Msx4-NOvbKuMZbIyToBrZP-oGBasnm9JmBhn96aGmeU0FR0i35EhahBxpbi_glE/w500-h375/P1030581.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">It has been wonderful to see this trail in three seasons. This month, the leaves were beginning to change and the old apple trees on the trail were laden with fruit. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Did you know you can forage in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Yep. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">It's perfectly fine to pick a few apples along the way.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNlo_s3ccBPOy7aBc4VKdVuUZxcI9Sl9gtWj2jQPlREJjyXVbwpLAzEEnAIdDHJJSb4bYeTGUuDLJrAwMlZN86BmJJzwECzkwA5EUXfb0ljEr5iDHl8x4vjRHcwRCU0f3h6__1OjyEDHw/s4608/P1030585.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNlo_s3ccBPOy7aBc4VKdVuUZxcI9Sl9gtWj2jQPlREJjyXVbwpLAzEEnAIdDHJJSb4bYeTGUuDLJrAwMlZN86BmJJzwECzkwA5EUXfb0ljEr5iDHl8x4vjRHcwRCU0f3h6__1OjyEDHw/w500-h375/P1030585.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnuE6s5nHX-tl2Iv85ifNX5XhDlC-oFlKbmcl0ZPoCpBrP7D9SxgUEaJ1h4BK6yFRp1p7RTaXJ_e3T9mhTrt_vfAeqakoSD_nBjnkcjbDO7W95fPYHMRQRg8TPUygnOoUXlVsxadfWhM/s4608/P1030586.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnuE6s5nHX-tl2Iv85ifNX5XhDlC-oFlKbmcl0ZPoCpBrP7D9SxgUEaJ1h4BK6yFRp1p7RTaXJ_e3T9mhTrt_vfAeqakoSD_nBjnkcjbDO7W95fPYHMRQRg8TPUygnOoUXlVsxadfWhM/w469-h625/P1030586.JPG" width="469" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8uzQw4mWvFZ_4hWzUu2qPr7CrHvjwdEoGIFsxffLOlNqtHdX0RqQ1DAbQZ9dzJEE-jZgt8as6lse2XltuBp-vTOA4Afb6ng1qnaW3j5bz1ZXzEdKxWDd95y8oCa8iYCC08GNc2lU4w8/s4608/P1030588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8uzQw4mWvFZ_4hWzUu2qPr7CrHvjwdEoGIFsxffLOlNqtHdX0RqQ1DAbQZ9dzJEE-jZgt8as6lse2XltuBp-vTOA4Afb6ng1qnaW3j5bz1ZXzEdKxWDd95y8oCa8iYCC08GNc2lU4w8/w500-h375/P1030588.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I usually head to the lakeshore after my hike. This time, the lake was calm and lovely.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC28ilDQiLzn3vouhDV2E2rEpcgOvcuZOmFQ0fbs47DyQ7MB__YcCG-_knibdV10ludyLz1azXK9YUao4SXYUbh4IdXRsSh-YMAY0ByGkSb_m7bB8n2MseD3eN9s_2CCpRQtJ0m6IAiA4/s4608/P1030594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC28ilDQiLzn3vouhDV2E2rEpcgOvcuZOmFQ0fbs47DyQ7MB__YcCG-_knibdV10ludyLz1azXK9YUao4SXYUbh4IdXRsSh-YMAY0ByGkSb_m7bB8n2MseD3eN9s_2CCpRQtJ0m6IAiA4/w500-h375/P1030594.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0