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<h1 id='title'>Back from the camping trip</h1>
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<time datetime='Tue, 6 Jun 2023 20:30:00 CDT'>6 Jun 2023, 8:30 PM</time>
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I went to the Porcupine Mountains on the upper peninsula of Michigan with my dad last week.
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We had a lot of fun camping and hiking around.
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I got my first taste of real backpacking.
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It made hiking more strenuous, but it was fun and satisfying being able to bring everything we needed with us on our backs.
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We spent one night in a rustic cabin on Mirror Lake, in the middle of the park.
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We backpacked in two and a half miles to this site, which was quite the initiation to carrying that much weight around as you hike.
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It’s a lovely hike, though, so we had a lot of fun taking in the views and noting the wildflowers by the trail.
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In the evening, when the last of the wind died down, the lake really lived up to its name.
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It got very clear, and we had a great time just sitting by the fire among the hemlocks.
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alt='Mirror Lake in the Porcupine Mountains'
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The second cabin we stayed in was near to the shore of Lake Superior.
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The park is pretty buggy this time of year, so we thought maybe being by the lake would bring some welcome wind to keep the bugs away.
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Unfortunately, this area was thick with mosquitos, and what’s worse, the cabin didn’t seem to be able to keep them out.
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We spent a fairly horrific half-hour after bedtime trying to kill all the mosquitos in the cabin, but it was clear that more were coming in all the time.
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I hadn’t slept very well on the trip thus far (a sole mosquito kept waking me up in the other cabin), and I was near the end of my rope.
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So we ended up hiking out of the site in the middle of the night (it was only about three quarters of a mile, so not unmanageable with headlamps).
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We got a hotel for the night, which was kind of a bummer, but I slept very well that night, so it was probably worth it.
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We also spent a night at Tettegouche State Park on the north shore of Lake Superior.
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This was the one night we actually camped out in our tents.
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This night went great, and was less buggy than either of the other sites.
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It was a cart-in campsite, which allowed us to bring in a cast-iron skillet, which we used to make eggs and hashbrowns.
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Great camping food!
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Have you been to the Porcupine Mountains?
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Have you been backpacking?
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Have you been camping?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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