Category Archives: Hiking & Biking

Ice Climbing and the Michigan Ice Fest

Eben6119 by ETCphoto
The Chicago Sun-Times has a cool feature on ice climbing and the annual Michigan Ice Fest by Felicia Schneiderhan. The Ice Fest is held in Munising (home to over 100 climbable waterfalls) and celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Schneiderhan says:
Ice festivals are great for beginners since the cost of admission -- $25 [...]

900 + 25,000 = a whole lot of photos!

Todd (cedarkayak) was the 900th person to join the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr. I figured that since the kayak (which he built) was the basis for his user name, it made sense to select this photo of the South Manitou Island Lighthouse. He writes that he used a sail to speed the crossing from [...]

Michigan Word of the Week: Snow

new snow, fog and sunrise by Latitude45
As snow arrives (which it did with a vengeance in the southern part of Michigan yesterday), Michiganders divide into two camps: those wishing they could hit the road for Florida and those readying their snow gear for all that winter has to offer. Here at Absolute Michigan we (mostly) [...]

800 photographers and a Photo Friday: At Miller Hill by whatever264

I've been watching the number of photographers in the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr as it approached 800 and thought we might reach the big 8-0-0 today in time for Photo Friday. When I logged on this morning I saw that we were indeed there (whoo-hoo!). What's more, the photo was from just down the [...]

Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen

RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography from my travels. I try to only put stuff on this page that is interesting [...]

Fall Color Tours: Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids

Our next fall color tour from Travel Michigan, Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids, starts where the photo the the right (maplepath by Aunt Owwee) was taken: at the Fenner Nature Center in Lansing (once known as the Fenner Arboretum). The park is named after biologist Carl G. [...]

Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie

Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add to your fun - type a town or something like "farm market" into the [...]

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks

Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore., (be sure to check out Lars Jensen's other Pictured Rocks galleries). [...]

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Keweenaw Peninsula

Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's Color Tour of Houghton, Eagle River, Copper Harbor starts you in the city of [...]

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Western Upper Peninsula

This was also posted on today on Michigan in Pictures along with a great view of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - check it out!

View from the Top by MoodyGoat
Ironwood - Silver City - Wakefield is the first Michigan fall color driving tour from Michigan.org that we're going to try and flesh out with photos [...]