Uploads from dcclark, tagged keweenaw

Sky Lines

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:28:06 -0800

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Looking up through the long-gone roof of the Quincy #5 boiler house.

Incidentally, the same place as this shot.

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Tamarack

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:23:00 -0800

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A photo from one arm of the Tamarack #3's gigantic rock pile, looking towards another arm of this massive rockpile. My friend Mike, better known as the Copper Country Explorer, takes a photo looking out over the Tamarack swamps.

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Birds

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:03:50 -0700

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Some pretty birds, apparently also acting as paintball targets, on the cement ruins at the Champion Mill in Freda, Michigan.

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Looking towards rocky ridge

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:04:31 -0700

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A friend standing on the edge of mount Brockway, looking south into the interior of the Keweenaw.

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Wild Daisy

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:54:32 -0700

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A wild daisy on the high rocky ridge at Copper Falls.

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Two flowers

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:36:09 -0700

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Two flowers entwined, neither of whose name I'm certain about. The pink one is some species of inedible wild pea (perhaps a beach pea), while the second is a common weed in the Keweenaw area.

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Fisher

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:43:10 -0700

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Another new photo from the reception tables at my wedding. This one ended up not being used (we took more photos than necessary). This is my home building at Michigan Tech -- Fisher hall. Not the most beautiful photo ever, but interestingly abstract.

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Alien Boiler

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:24:56 -0700

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The Carp Lake mine's boiler tubes... or an ancient iron face?

OK, it's the Carp Lake mine's boiler! This is one of the least accessible ruins in the Copper Country, but also one of the most spectacular to find. It's hidden near Lake of the Clouds, far over the Escarpment Trail, down a long and rocky hill with no trail to be found. But at the bottom is the only in-place Cornish stamp mill in the Copper Country -- possibly in the entire United States!

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Brockway View

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:07:16 -0700

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A view towards the top of Brockway Mountain, on a hazy summer day.

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Bare Bluff

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:36:09 -0700

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The view from the top of Bare Bluff, a massive outcropping of Rhyolite (a pink mineral, hence the wacky rock colors) which is very very close to the shore of Lake Superior. It's also a Michigan Nature Association sanctuary. This bluff is amazingly remote, too, requiring a long-ish drive on rough logging roads, followed by a hike through some of the steepest and worst-maintained trails I've seen! But it's all worth it, especially for this view straight towards the tip of Keweenaw Point.

This is often misnamed "Bear Bluff" -- sure, there are bears around, but its correct name is Bare Bluff.

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Winter Superior

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:16:46 -0700

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The Lovely Sarah enjoying the view over Lake Superior, New Year's Eve, 2011. We almost stayed at a cabin right next to this spot, but the blizzard the next day deterred us.

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Michigan E Shaft

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:57:01 -0700

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The Minesota Mine (yes, spelled that way) was one of the first wildly rich copper mines in the Copper Country. It closed, in the words of the copper handbook, largely due to management unwilling to invest the necessary money in keeping it going. It was reborn as the Michigan Mine, on a much grander scale.

When it began to play out (again), they expanded and drove new shafts, including the "E" shaft. Its fortress-like ruins still sit atop a short bluff, with its collapsing shaft recently re-capped. I have no clue what happened to these ruins to cause them to fall apart this way -- it's very unusual, even in the ruin-ridden Copper Country.

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Conduit

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:45:20 -0700

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Conduits entering the Quincy #8 (Mesnard)'s small modern hoist house.

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Self portrait with ice

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:55:23 -0700

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Standing on a huge ice-covered outcrop of rock on the shore of Lake Superior at Hunter's Point, looking north.

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Ball Mill

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:36:38 -0700

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A ball mill at the old White Pine mine. This was one of many attempts to make mining the Nonesuch Shale pay -- a bed of sandstone with extremely fine copper embedded in it. The Nonesuch mine (in the Porcupine Mountains) was the first attempt, with the old White Pine coming again later. It took quite a long time -- until the 1950's! -- for the Copper Range Company to solve the problem (at which point the White Pine became a real bonanza).

The ball mills were an early attempt at the White Pine, but they benefitted from the many many many attempts made at the Nonesuch -- but as it turned out, these rotating containers didn't work all that well either. The ruins are spectacular, but never made any money.

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Paavola Window

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:55:15 -0700

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Looking through the ruined windows at an abandoned farmhouse, at the Paavola Wetlands north of Hancock, MI.

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Eagle Harbor Lighthouse

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:45:49 -0700

dcclark posted a photo:

So, I got married recently! At the reception, we gave each table a name of a local landmark -- as well as putting some small photo cards on the table as take-home gifts for the guests. Some of these photos are old ones which I've previously posted (such as my old favorite, Fall Tram at Quincy).

But some are new photos which I took specifically for the tables. I'm going to be posting several of those, starting with this one -- Table #1, the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse, now open for historical tours.

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Split

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:44:37 -0700

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Shadows at a Quincy Mine boiler house.

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Birch shadow

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:47:23 -0700

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A young tree's shadow on a long-established birch.

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Portage Ice

nobody@flickr.com (dcclark) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:19:05 -0700

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Ice in the Portage on a "summery" evening.

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