The Porkies
This has been a great summer for Amy and I. Hiking all told we will have logged just shy of 90 miles in the back country in some of the most beautiful trails in the upper Midwest. This time we are in Porcupine Mountains, with Mark. We met up at the trail head and headed out. We missed our first spur trail and ended up with a late morning snack at the site we had planned to camp at. It would have been a good spot, but we pushed on south along Overlook trail and headed West on Government Peak. Government Peak has an old foundation and was possibly a fire tower at some time. We hiked down the trail on the back side and camped on a level clearing along a beaver pond. The water sources was weak, yellow stained and stagnant but we found an our flowing stream that was a little better. A standard morning of coffee and oatmeal as and we were back on the trail. We stayed north of Mirror lake and the family cabins and fancy comp...