Update : Houghton Trip (October 2008)

So - I (almost) broke my arm on October 3rd at 7:42am.

I was dog sitting for friends who shall remain nameless, while they went to a birthday party out of town. They have two very sweet Weimaraners, one of whom likes to play games in the morning before going into her kennel.

Unfortunately for me, on 10/3 at 7:42, she wanted to play, and I didn't. I chased her and wound up tripping over my own jeans (really!) and fell. On my elbow. Against the edge of a side table.

After much maneuvering by some good friends from work (Joli and JasonS), both I and my car made it to the emergency room, where I was x-rayed and told "Your arm isn't broken." No - I had bruised my ulnar nerve. My "funny bone". It wasn't very funny. I couldn't bend my arm, in fact for the first two days I could barely lift it. And I was scheduled to drive a minivan loaded with a dryer and a lot of electronics to Houghton for the MTU fall recruiting trip on October 5th. Yeah - great timing!

Fortunately for me, my dad was willing to drive to the UP to do some historical touring, see the Copper Harbor Lighthouse and the Quincy Mine and such, so he volunteered to drive me up. And a bunch of people from work helped me load the van, so I didn't have to do much in that respect. Recruiting went fine, and the HR person was pleased to be able to choose the best of the best from our many interviewees.

But this blog is just to put up some photos of our "tour" of the Copper Country. So - here we go!

The Mackinaw Bridge











Entering the UP!









Colors!









MTU!









The Lift Bridge!









We visited Fort Wilkins :









Copper Harbor Lighthouse - we didn't make it across the harbor though









Eagle Harbor Lighthouse






















Eagle Harbor Yacht Club - formerly the Eagle Harbor Life Saving Station. The LSS originally had two doors that opened up to boat ramps. When they needed to get out onto the lake, the crew would run the boats down the ramp into the water, and then row out to a boat in distress to rescue the crew. Here is a page about some of the rescues that the LSS crew conducted, and has pics of the original LSS and crew. http://www.michiganlights.com/EagleharborLSS.htm











You can still see the boat ramps from the doors to the water. I couldn't get a good shot of the interior, but we could see an original LSS Surf Boat inside the LSS. It was pretty cool (very few surf boats have survived).









While I was interviewing, Dad did some exploring :









He also visited the Quincy Mine (and Lift Hoist)!










The Rockhouse / #2 Shaft House













The tram that the miners would ride down to work.














The hoist

Copper Country Explorer does a good job of showing more pics of the Quincy Mine (more time to photograph the Mine, and other areas in the Keweenaw Peninsula). http://coppercountryexplorer.com/category/quincy-mine/