Category Archives: UP

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Fly High at the Pine Mountain Ski Jumping Tournament

Every year the Kiwanis Ski Club in Iron Mountain holds the Pine Mountain Continental Cup Ski Jumping Competition, one of the best tournaments in the United world. The first competition was held in 1939, making 2012 is the 73rd annual. The event takes place the weekend of February 11-12, 2012 and will draw top US & international [...]

Michigan 175: Yooper Steez Skateboard Deck

One of the items in our Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash giveaway (#mich175) is a skateboard deck from Absolute Michigan sponsor Yooper Steez. Yooper Steez isn’t a skateboard company, but has always drawn inspiration from the skateboarding and snowboarding culture. This is just one product (of many more to come) that offers a way for Yoopers to show [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Cadeau Creations gift basket

Cadeau Creations was born and bred in the wild Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In addition to complete catering services, they have created specially-designed baskets of gourmet goodness from the people, places and soil of the U.P. using the freshest local ingredients and select organic and Fair Trade ingredients. They make a great gift for homesick [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Yooper Steez

Yooper Steez was founded in 2008 by Justin Sailor and is dedicated to providing original Upper Peninsula products and fresh stories of the UP through their engaging blog to people who appreciate what the Upper Peninsula has to offer. They connect Yoopers across the world and give them a way to express and share their [...]

Michigan Cranberries & Cranberry Farming

Thanksgiving is just a week away, so we’re rolling out a classic feature on cranberries!  Cranberries by argusmaniac Red Beauties in Lake Magazine’s 2006 Holiday Issue is an engaging look at cranberry farming in Michigan. Although Michigan only has a small number of cranberry farms in the northeast, Upper Peninsula, and the southwestern corner of [...]

Michigan Underwater Preserves: Alger Underwater Diving Preserve

Graveyard Coast II by Michigan Nut michiganpreserves.org explains that although the vast inland waterway of the Great Lakes provided natural highway, there were also dangerous, fraught with sudden storms, fog, heavy traffic and shipping companies who cared more about the bottom line than the thousands of schooners, steamers and barges that ended up on the [...]

July Michigan Event Calendar

Expanse by g. s. george You don’t have to travel far when you live in Michigan to find a whole lot of fun. We encourage you to support the festivals, events, cities and businesses that are making all the cool things happen around the state. So get out this summer and have some fun and [...]

Photo Friday: spine as if frozen by jen526

jen526 ( Jenn Adams) says that she loves the outdoors, and photography is a great reason to go exploring, little kid style, in the woods or around a lake or through a meadow – the two are synergistic. She asks: Does it detract anything from this photo to know that I took this on a [...]

Photo Friday: Untitled by adonyvan

adonyvan (Jiqing Fan) took this shot in September on Lake Superior. Check it out big as the Big Lake and see more photos from the region in his Houghton & UP MI set (slideshow). Dive into his Flickriver. Share this:

Night on Drummond Island

I featured a photo by Aaron Jones last Friday on Michigan in Pictures and while I was checking out his work I came across this fantastic time-lapse he shot at Drummond Island. Be sure to set the video to “HQ” and don’t miss the Perseid meteors toward the end! Share this: