Day Five - Keweenaw Peninsula

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The Keweenaw peninsula is well-known as "big snow country". This marker along the highway north of Houghton showed the record seasonal snowfall of 32.5 ft., which occured in the winter of 1978-1979,  and last year's snowfall of just over 26 ft. That is a lot of shoveling.










A little farther north is the Holy Transfiguration Skete, about halfway between Eagle River and Eagle Harbor. It is a Catholic monastery of the Byzantine Rite and belongs to the Ukrainian Metropoly. Not something one expects to see in the UP.









The monks in the monastery run this store which specializes in jams they make. It is their primary economic activity for supporting themselves.







Eagle Harbor, with its lighthouse; it is now a museum. Note the ore freighter in the distance on Lake Superior.








The view of Copper Harbor from the Brockway Mountain Scenic Drive.
Lake Fannie Hooe is on the right.







Relaxing at the campground at Fort Wilkins State Park.







The lighthouse at Copper Harbor is a reminder that the weather on Lake Superior can be very dangerous.







The group at dinner in the Harbor Haus restaurant in Copper Harbor. The food was very good.








Another evening campfire. Fortunately we had some people along who knew how to make good campfires.


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