Tag Archives: Camping

Hiking the North Country Trail Through the Porkies

“Jane, why did you agree to this? Why didn’t you say, ‘Let’s go shopping and see a movie?’” I asked my hiking buddy as we slogged up a steep, muddy, rooted death-trap of a hill. Checking off all of the North Country Trail miles in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park had seemed like suchContinue reading “Hiking the North Country Trail Through the Porkies”

A Fall Weekend at the Muskegon State Park Yurt

The shoulder seasons of late fall and early spring find me reluctant to commit to backpacking–it’s just too cold and wet. The rustic cabins and bunkhouses offered by the DNR are a nice compromise. This past weekend some friends and I stayed in the yurt at Muskegon State Park in order to hike the park’sContinue reading “A Fall Weekend at the Muskegon State Park Yurt”