On 03/19/2018 11:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 19 March 2018 08:15:05 Mark wrote:
;-) I'm a little over an hour south of the Mackinac Bridge just
outside the small town of Grayling Michigan.
If thats right on 23, ISTR seeing a sign on a turnoff pointing at
Grayling, then I've been by your place on my trips to/from Iron
Mountain, several times. Nice drive, low traffic. Low human density. And
not as many deer as I expected. Did see a few once I'd turned left north
of the bridge on US-2.
Grayling is right off I-75. Go into the town about a mile, hang a right
on M 72 West towards Mio, and I'm about 6 miles on the right. Things
might have changed a bit in Michigan since you were last here. Last
year, DNR said there were over 65,000 road kill deer. Didn't put much of
a dent in the deer population here though.
We got some rattlers up
here though, along with the ticks, and the Michigan State Bird, the
mosquito.
I've fed them, enough to get anemic if I don't eat right. We have
copperheads here, so I've not met a rattler locally. But I expect they
are about. They are endemic where I was born in Iowa.
It's about the only poisonous snake up here. Lotsa bull snakes though.
Plenty of skeeters though.
Lotsa trees, lotsa wild game, and lotsa fishing. Sportsmans
Paradise. It do get a little chilly in the winter up here though.
;-)
I've experienced some of that too. -25F one night, damned rental jeep's
battery expired, had to hoof it back to the motel from the feedbag,
about a long mile north of the motel, in better than a foot of fresh
snow that was 2+ feet by morning. I had better legs back then though.
We were down to -36 before the wind hit back in December. They
unofficially call the Grayling are "The Icebox." ;-)
Mark
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