{"id":29,"date":"2010-06-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2010\/06\/porcupine-mountains-wilderness-state-park-summit-peak-loop.html"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:00:00","slug":"porcupine-mountains-wilderness-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2010\/06\/porcupine-mountains-wilderness-state.html","title":{"rendered":"Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park &#8211; Summit Peak Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>This trip took place October 6th &#8211; 8th, 2007 <\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3174829807\/\" title=\"IMG_1543.JPG by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3100\/3174829807_5e00f496cb.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"IMG_1543.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>My buddy Mark and I have been backpacking together for the past seven years or so and in 2007 we planned a trip to Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula (c&#8217;mon up to da U.P., eh!).&nbsp; The Upper Peninsula or UP as it&#8217;s commonly referred to is home to some nice wildland &#8211; particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porcupine_Mountains\">Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park<\/a>.&nbsp; We planned for a four day weekend and did a great &#8211; albeit rainy &#8211; loop within the confines of the park.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our trip route was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N. Mirror Lake Trail<\/li>\n<li>Little Carp River Trail<\/li>\n<li>Lake Superior Trai <\/li>\n<li>Big Carp River Trail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was very pleased with how the photos Mark and I took that weekend turned out.&nbsp; The fall colors and wet landscape came together for some very soft and pleasing imagery.&nbsp; Following are a few of my favorites.&nbsp; View the entire set within the pages of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/sets\/72157612255986616\/\">Porcupine Mountains<\/a> set on Flickr.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3174970357\/\" title=\"IMG_1595.JPG by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3258\/3174970357_3fde89ab56.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"IMG_1595.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3175782196\/\" title=\"Sam on a rock by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3097\/3175782196_7e99f2996b.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Sam on a rock\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3175760080\/\" title=\"Fall colors by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3264\/3175760080_ec4fe5441c.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Fall colors\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3174864843\/\" title=\"Sun and water by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3129\/3174864843_ff77b083a9.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Sun and water\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/3175673562\/\" title=\"Mark, Sam, jackasses by samhDOTnet, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1022\/3175673562_fb2da3005c.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Mark, Sam, jackasses\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=176937\">Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park &#8211; Summit Peak Loop<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/iframe2.php?trip_id=176937&#038;width=400&#038;height=300\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This trip took place October 6th &#8211; 8th, 2007 My buddy Mark and I have been backpacking together for the past seven years or so and in 2007 we planned a trip to Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula (c&#8217;mon up to da U.P., eh!).&nbsp; The Upper Peninsula or UP as it&#8217;s commonly referred to is home to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2010\/06\/porcupine-mountains-wilderness-state.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park &#8211; Summit Peak Loop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backpacking","category-michigan","category-weekend-trips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}