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Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2013, 08:19:18 am »
Pearly , one of your better efforts a bow making !!!!!!!!! :laugh: >:D
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Glad to see you had some fun !!
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2013, 08:27:01 am »
Sooooo....ya camped out at a junkyard?  ::)
That's what I was wondering. Looks like fun though.


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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2013, 09:41:01 am »
Those are old logging trucks. Its basically an outdoor museum. You cant move or mess with anything, just look at it and walk on. Besides a few over grown orchards, there wasn't much sign of previous life. The apples where yummy though!

Bob I basically acted like I was scouting all weekend, I never saw an area that made me think, "Yah, hunt here". It seems the eradication of deer in 1981 really worked. We seen one spiker on our way out and no other deer.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2013, 09:42:19 am »
Nice trip, Pearlie. Looks like lots of fun.  That timber truck door is a keeper.  8)
 The money shot in that full draw pic is your outfit.  ;)  I dig those jellies.  8)

Pat those Crocs are Heaven on a bun after a few hard miles in boots. They weigh an ounce or two, so carrying them in is unnoticeable. Plus they double as wading shoes for fishing. I love em'!
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Offline Buffalogobbler

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2013, 10:00:04 am »
Pat,
They'r called jellies if they are hot pink or lime green. thier crocks if ya paint em black.
Careful about wading after them smallies Pearlie! The paint might wash off!
Looks like a great time! Did ya kill any of them acorn munching varmints?

Kevin
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2013, 10:10:57 am »
I got one Kevin. Ive never seen so many anywhere. And brave? They didn't care where they went or who was sitting there. There are only five land mammals on the whole island. A very few beavers, white footed mice, few deer, few coons and chipmunks
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2013, 10:40:48 am »
Nice shootin!!!
It's always nice to put down one of those vicious nut munchers!
Aim small miss small!

Kevin
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2013, 11:57:57 am »
Those are old logging trucks. Its basically an outdoor museum. You cant move or mess with anything, just look at it and walk on.

If that's your definition of a junkyard I'm cool with that  8)  :laugh:  ;D

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2013, 01:16:24 pm »
Cool expedition there PD.Good pictures too.Looks like the weather held up for ya real good.
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2013, 01:23:09 pm »
man that looks like alot of fun

Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2013, 01:38:38 pm »
Cool expedition there PD.Good pictures too.Looks like the weather held up for ya real good.

Ed we had a rumbler roll in off the big lake Friday morning around 4 am. I just sat in my tent and made oatmeal and coffee under the vestabule. At about 8:30 we said screw it and just struck off in the rain. That's why some pics are "wet". By the time we got back to base camp we where dry and had spotless weather onward.
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2013, 03:04:46 pm »
Things always smell nice after a rain.Coming and going as you please any time is a good thing too.Were you on some kind of schedule though?&&&&&&& you did'nt get LOST.+1
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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2013, 03:18:27 pm »
Our only schedule was catching the boat home at 11 am Sunday, other than that we did as we felt. I adore that part about backcountry hiking. No annoying signs and fences telling you to stay out.
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Offline RyanR

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #28 on: September 16, 2013, 07:13:08 pm »
Looked like a fun trip. Some of my older friends bow hunted out there years ago.. Not sure if it was north or south manitou.  It was full of deer. They shot a lot of deer.

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Re: North Manitou Island backpack trip pics
« Reply #29 on: September 16, 2013, 11:20:48 pm »
I'm older. ;D But I didn't get to hunt out there until after the deer were gone.  :( Great place to hike and camp though.  Looks like you had a good trip.  Thanks for the pics, I really enjoyed them.  Darryl