Michigan Has two peninsulas, with lots of water in-between Has an amazing suspension bridge (Was the world record holder for total suspended length for quite a while after being built in 1957) Opens the bridge to pedestrian traffic once a year on the morning of Labor Day In 45 years,… Continue reading
Made the trek over to Mid-Michee to shoot NFAA Indoor Great Lakes Sectionals. The results were acceptable. The format is slightly different this year in that you can shoot twice and the better score gets ranked. First round was 58x (37 IOs). That’s pretty OK, but I had already made… Continue reading
The Rushmore Rumble is one of the newer, maybe the newest, NFAA indoor shoots. For its first few years, it was actually held near Mt. Rushmore, but the prospect of driving across South Dakota in early January was not appealing to me. This year, it moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. Worse… Continue reading
Sunday 9/1 We drove the rest of the way to Chicago, and got in around 3pm. We unloaded / swapped car stuff and verified that Janet had not been charged three weeks worth of parking passes for leaving the Subaru in her spot, then wandered down to Mariano’s for some… Continue reading
Saturday 8/31 We wandered through Wall Drug again in the morning for coffee. Refills are only 5 cents!… As advertised on multiple billboards. Apparently Wall doesn’t have any dedicated coffee shops, so we we inadvertently played the tourist role of getting nearly free coffee at the end of the 100… Continue reading
Friday 8/30 Up, breakfast and then started driving South towards Custer State Park and Wind Cave National Park. It was a little rainy for the drive through Custer. Apparently, since it’s on a main highway, there’s a “loophole” where you don’t have to pay the state park fee of $20/car… Continue reading
Thursday 8/29 As noted, the park isn’t huge, so we headed up the main drive again stopping at a few of the same spots and a few new ones on the way. We did a few shorter hikes, some of which seemed to be kind of hikes to nowhere and… Continue reading
Wednesday 8/28 We drove the remainder of the drive from Billings to Teddy Roosevelt National Park, getting there in the afternoon. Found a campsite at the Cottonwood campground that was sufficiently shady and set up the tent under a tree. Stopped at the picnic area to make lunch and then… Continue reading
Tuesday 8/27 The plan for the day was to do Grinnell Glacier hike along Swiftcurrent Lake, Lake Josephine, Grinnell Lake and then Upper Grinnell Lake and Grinnell Glacier. We didn’t start super early, so we just left the car at the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn and walked the extra 1/2 mile… Continue reading
Monday 8/26 Attempt number two at Highline Trail followed the same basic plan as the first, but with vastly improved results. It was an excellent day for the hike, low fog in the morning rising up and leaving a nice afternoon. Highline is a 12mi one-way hike (I guess you… Continue reading