August 19 -21
On our drive towards Copper County we stopped to hike down to the Canyon Falls.
These are the kind of trail signs we need - we get lost often
Found a farm on Boondockers Welcome to spend the night at.
Saw many stars as we sat by the fire with host AJ.
Sunrise on the farm
We chose this spot to stop because we had been advised to go to Syl's Cafe in Ontonagon on a Sunday and have their Finnish pancakes. Unfortunately, despite it being Sunday, they weren't serving their famous pancakes this day. It was still good food.
Continued our route to Copper Country and stopped at the Quincy Copper Mine, part of the Keweenaw National Historic Park.
No.2 Rockhouse - entrance to the mine shaft and where the ore was initially sorted and loaded onto train cars
Two large pieces of copper at the entrance
Water bailing skip on the left was also where the skips with iron ore were brought up. On the right is the mancar which would take 30 men at a time down the mine
Ore skip
Man Engine Shaft where miners initially climbed down ladders into the shaft until it got to be too deep
Ruins of one of the boiler houses
Ruins of another boiler house
Love the attention to making the buildings beautiful
Slag
Cables would run from the rockhouse at the top of the hill to the hoist house below to haul the mancars and skips up and down the shaft
Hoist House
Upper Falls
Volunteer Fire and Rescue members were practicing rescues at the Middle Falls (note the mannequin at the bottom)
We continued on toward our destination of Copper Harbor
This gave us pause - a record 390.4 inches of snowfall for the season in 1978-79 - and I thought the blizzard of '78 was something to have lived through!
Jacob Falls
We found a dispersed campsite in the State Forest outside of Copper Harbor and had visitors out our backdoor as we settled in.
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