A little trip 6 hours north got us cool weather — 50s and 60s — and the clear water of Lake Superior.
Lots of rocks and the occasional flower:
Lots of camping in Copper Harbor. Big vehicles. Some powered by Bitchdust:
Here's our camper — in the background, with me in the foreground:
One sunrise photo: 
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Get a UV light and look for yooperlite rocks.
i hope you're starting to like campering
Nice cloud reflection in sunrise photo. Did you ferry over to Isle Royale?
Mid-Continental Rift. 1 billion years ago, the earth opened up and lava flowed out. Fortunately, it was a failed rift, or we wouldn't be here. Because here would be in the middle of the ocean.
The rocks in your second photo are about 1100 million years old, and are a collection of all the junk [conglomerate] which washed into the Mid-continental rift, an ancient split in Earth's rind which extends all the way down here to Kansas. Due to a later sag in the rocks [syncline] the rocks forming Isle Royale are nearly identical to those arounf Copper Harbor.
Ah, the UP, great memories. And one not so great, stayed (I think around Houghton) in a flea bag motel and actually got bit by bed bugs.
The top left rock of IMG_2603 2 is fascinating. A true metamorphic taffy pull. Wish I had it in my hands. An excellent find.
That second pic is an interesting bit of geology. Decent size rounded river cobbles embedded in a varied mix. Speaks of fast mountain rivers, and massive erosion.
I was just up high in the middle CA Sierra, where a similar mix was sitting on top of the old granites, Recent volcanoes (several) produced a 400 foot thick mix of cobbles, shattered fragments, and tufa welded glass.
Massive wildflower display, too, because of the very late snowmelt. There was still a lot of snow above 8000 feet.
Did yoyu see the Paulding lights?
The waters around the Isle Royale National Park are the setting for one of the most challenging crime scenes ever in “A Superior Death“ by Nevada Barr — in the frigid water 260 feet below the surface of Lake Superior. Nevada Barr can be pretty hit or miss in her Anna Pigeon mystery series, but I really liked this one. (Available in a variety of formats from the Althouse Amazon Portal.)
Isn't it great to hop in the car and just GO somewhere? Anywhere you please - near or far. Without asking anyone's permission.
I suspect the road to Net Zero will soon turn this simple pleasure into a guilty pleasure. Enjoy it while you can!
Beautiful spot. Nice to see you two out and about camping. Good to get some lower temps and fresh air.
Hope there was good swimming and or fishing too.
Why do they always have to go to Massachusetts, and drown them in a pond?
Campering? Is that the same as Glamping?
Porcupine Mountains Union River Outpost.
Hope you took a dip. That would cool you down.
This is what a devious, lying bastard looks like. What a schmuck.
"Joe Biden is on a media tour talking about Hunter’s daughter Navy, coincidentally in the days leading up to and during Devon Archer’s testimony about Joe’s involvement in Hunter”s influence pedding, creating a contrived distraction."
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/now-joe-biden-cant-stop-talking-about-the-granddaughter-he-ignored-until-three-days-ago/
16 year-old Mick Jagger in rock-climbing tv clip.
https://youtu.be/4_pQa0TGYCw
Welcome to Michigan! Stop at the Jampot, a little craft food store run by monks next to Eagle Falls on the Kewenau peninsula.
We had the first gorgeous "fall is in the air" day on Sunday, and it's been delightfully cool since.
Nice patterns in the rock.
It wold be funny if WW3 broke out because Niger, the primary source of uranium for the EU, especially since they banned imports from Russia, has decided to throw out their French colonial masters. The US has a thousand soldiers there, because of "jihadis." Ah jihadis, if they didn't exist, we would have to invent them, so many pretexts. Good thing the jihadis exist, because the neocons would *never* invent such a threat just to convince somebody to accept our "protection."
Or maybe WW3 breaks out in Syria, where we have troops because of ISIS jihadis (probably armed by us) and our forces and Russian forces, which were invited by the sovereign govt there, come closer to direct conflict every day.
Or maybe it happens in the most likely place, which would be Ukraine, where the US, per the admission of one of our former CIA operatives, fomented a coup in 2014 and triggered a civil war.
I love this: "you[Andrii Telizhenko} were sanctioned by the Treasury Department for spreading quote “fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations involving a US political candidate,” and that candidate refers to Joe Biden."
https://archive.is/YGpId#selection-2129.0-2129.17
And "unsubstantiated" seems kind of strong language, given the copious substantiation of Biden's corruption in Ukraine that has come out. But I guess that's the same playbook as calling the Russian intervention in Ukraine's civil war "unprovoked."
Did the Treasury Department ever sanction anybody over the "fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations" in the "dossier"?
Thanks to all the geology buffs!
I have a few more pictures of rocks. It's a rocky place, the Keweenaw Peninsula:
"The ancient lava flows of the Keweenaw Peninsula were produced during the Mesoproterozoic Era as a part of the Midcontinent Rift between 1.096 and 1.087 billion years ago. This volcanic activity produced the only strata on Earth where large-scale economically recoverable 97 percent pure native copper is found. Much of the native copper found in the Keweenaw comes in either the form of cavity fillings on lava flow surfaces, which has a ”lacy” consistency, or as "float" copper, which is found as a solid mass. Copper ore may occur within conglomerate or breccia as void or interclast fillings. The conglomerate layers occur as interbedded units within the volcanic pile.
The Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, formed by the Midcontinent Rift System, are the only sites in the United States with evidence of prehistoric aboriginal mining of copper. Artifacts made from this copper by these ancient indigenous people were traded as far south as present-day Alabama. These areas are also the unique location where chlorastrolite, the state gem of Michigan, can be found."
If you like a beach but hate sand and like an endless stretch of water out in front of you but hate salt, here you will find a beach to please you.
We talked to a young woman who was moving from here to Salem, Oregon, and she was going to miss Lake Superior. She didn't think the Pacific Ocean was a good alternative. What she said about the ocean: "You don't know what's in it." Ha ha. Lake Superior is very clear, and you can see down to the rocks and pebbles on the bottom. If anything was swimming near you, you'd see it. But you know there are no sharks. And when you come out of the water, you feel as though you've taken a bath, not as though you need one.
Fun fact of the day:
Jeep customers have historically skewed toward lower credit scores, analysts say, and many of those buyers have been pushed out of the current new-car market. At the end of May, Jeep buyers who took out a car loan had an average rate of 8.5%, higher than at competitors such as Ford and Toyota, according to Cox data.
“They had a high percentage of subprime buyers, and those have gone away,” said Michelle Krebs, a Cox analyst. Stellantis said it had no comment on its percentage of subprime customers.
The average price for a new Jeep Cherokee is $91,000.
Reference: Jalopnik
Great comments from all the geologists. By training or avocation. This is how I pick up much of my walking around knowledge. Paying attention to people the know the subject. I barely abled to ask a decent question.
He was getting his rocks off even then, Wendybar!
He was getting his rocks off even then, Wendybar!
I'll second the Jam Pot. The most delightful monks since Robin Hood. The magical mystery tour may have started with the delicious giant jam brownie we purchased there or it may be all that copper surrounded by the worlds largest fresh water lake like a natural lightning rod. Random characters kept popping up ominously asking if we "had been to the mine". I suspect that's where they keep the aliens. Or Bigfoot's winter home.
Great pix, and awesomely knowledgeable comments. Makes me want to read some John McPhee.
I stayed a year up there back in the 90's
That was a long winter!
madAsHell said...
Campering? Is that the same as Glamping?
by Campering i meant: sleeping in a Camper, as opposed to Camping, which is sleeping on the ground (possibly inside a tent).
Very pretty area, and very wild still.
Back in the summer between eighth and ninth grade I took a summer youth program out of Michigan Tech. We spent a week bicycling the Keewenaw, looking at the biology and geology. Very interesting, got to tour an old mine, the Delaware Mine, went through Copper Harbor, Eagle River, Eagle Harbor. Camped every night. I used the ten speed bike I bought from Sears with my paperroute money. Flew up to Houghton from Detroit Metro on Rrpublic Airlines.
I still have the small piece of native copper I found in the spoils pile of an old mine.
The next year I spent two weeks on the campus for an aviation course taught by one of the professors who had been an air force pilot. Stayed on campus then but we had some field trips to the Calumet radar station and to K.I. Sawyer AFB, which was a SAC base. Got to go through a B-52.
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