Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a vast region. By the way, did you know that the Upper Peninsula is wider than the Lower Peninsula is tall?
I love exploring Google Maps and finding aerial views of my favorite places in the Upper Peninsula as well as the rest of the world. Here are [...]

1 helicopter. 1 broken snowboard. 1 broken leg. And a whole bunch of whoa.
Every year a few dozens of the Midwest’s best snowboarders and skiers take to Marquette Mountain and showcase some of the best talent around. It’s impressive to see the kind of talent there is locally.
Here are [...]

Colleen Wallin, a rookie from Two Harbors, Minnesota, crosses Third Street in downtown Marquette at the start of the U.P. 200.
The U.P. 200 Sled Dog Championship wrapped up on Sunday with Eric Morris from Port Wing, WI taking home first place. Behind him in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place were Ryan Anderson, Tim Calhoun, [...]

Photo by Andy Nelson-Zaleski of the Mining Journal
In what local law enforcement are referring to as ‘Typical Yooper Fashion’, a Marquette man has marooned his 1995 Buick LeSabre on a downtown snowbank. Apparently the incident spiraled out of control when Mr Toivo Mukada decided to take climate control into his own hands, following Phil [...]

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Michigan Tech University’s annual Winter Carnival wrapped up this weekend. This year’s theme was “A Frigid Place Gets a Blast from Space”.
As always it was another exciting week of events including a beard competition, broomball, crowning of the queen, curling, human dog sled races, ice fishing, ice bowling, snowshoe races, snow volleyball, [...]

Photography has been one of my biggest hobbies for several years now and it was a few years ago when I started following one of my favorite ongoing photography projects, The Gigapxl Project.
I was fortunate do a pretty cool project of my own starting two years back when I left on a 50-state tour for [...]

Photo courtesy of We are CS
The Estivant Pines is one of the great nature sanctuaries of the Upper Peninsula with 508 acres of forest in Keweenaw County.
The nature sanctuary, which is now maintained and preserved by the Michigan Nature Association, holds some of the oldest white pines (Michigan’s State Tree for those of [...]

With the coming launch of our new product, Lake Superior t-shirts, I thought it’d be a appropriate to celebrate the power of Lake Superior a little more. In addition to that, I thought it’d be good to mix things up a little bit. Rather than posting some photos, how about a few videos [...]

“The Weather Outside if Frightful” by Siskokid
I couldn’t resist. Sorry. But yes, winter will be here soon. You see, I’m very excited for winter, more excited than I have been in a long time. For the first time in my life I will be living five minutes from the ski hill [...]

When I came across these photos on Flickr there was no question that I had to use them on the site. Pictures speak louder than words sometimes, and no more words are needed here.
Photos by sullivan06 on Flickr