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| Name: | Taylor Reece |
| E-mail address: | taylor_reece@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://medalin.web.fc2.com/propecia/ |
| Comments: | Sup, tite hp you got there. Keep up da work. Sweet job! Aight, peace out. http://medalin.web.fc2.com/propecia/ is ill!!! |
| Name: | Scott |
| E-mail address: | mauritzsonscott@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I have been to Isle several time and everytime I love it. Did a solo trip over Memorial day weekend, I don't think that their was a better time to go. I would like to know how the rest of the story ended up with the three girls that had to cut their trip short that weekend. |
| Name: | Mike Grosberg |
| E-mail address: | mikegrosberg@hotmail.com |
| Name: | dorothy tipton |
| E-mail address: | sisterbrotherjimmy@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hello there i would like to become a member if thats possible can you all let me know
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| Name: | A Real Hiker |
| Comments: | This website is a piece of shit. Update teh crap out of it or take it down, moron |
| Name: | A Real Hiker |
| Comments: | This website is a piece of shit. Update teh crap out of it or take it down, moron |
| Name: | David C. Barnum |
| E-mail address: | dcbarnum@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://isleroyalefamilies.org |
| Comments: | Congratulations on a very fine site on Isle Royale. My family has been going to the island for 5 generations. This season will be my 47th year on Isle Royale. I have hiked the island from end to end. I have rowed the island in it's total circumference several times. I have sailed the island and have been around the island many, many times. The Isle Royale Families and Friends Association is a group, who, in partnership with NPS, is an authentic link with the cultural history of Isle Royale. I am clear that some may be in disagreement with the goals of our group. We welcome discussion about the value of maintaining the original families on Isle Royale. Contact me with any questions.
Regards, David C. Barnum dcbarnum@aol.com 847-639-2446 |
| Name: | Monica Robertson |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.4guests.com |
| Comments: | keep up the great work :) |
| Name: | Monica Robertson |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.4guests.com |
| Comments: | keep up the great work :) |
| Name: | Jay Schwanke |
| E-mail address: | JSArmour@telecom.,net |
| Comments: | I have been to the island about 6 times, from 1997-2001. It is so-so. If you hike the waters edge areas it is cool, otherwise inside the island is like everywhere else. Plus the water areas have other hikers?
I know stick to the Superior National Forest or Quetico in the same area, even the Superior Hiking Trail. Cheaper , no long cold boring boat ride that sucks money, same views of the lake and less rules. Jay S. and friends |
| Name: | Vache and Cow |
| E-mail address: | spambox@vacheandcow.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.vacheandcow.com |
| Comments: | Congrats for your website, we LOVE it !!! Don't hesitate to come by our great little cow world to say hi :-)
Vache and Cow : Cows Paradise
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| Name: | Anitra |
| E-mail address: | anitra@cuteandsingle.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://cuteandsingle.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed your site. |
| Name: | PATRICK |
| E-mail address: | patrickroberts170@msn.com |
| Comments: | I have been to the island twice, in 1975 and in 1981 and both times we're the best. I plan on taking my sons this year they are 17 yrs. old and 14 yrs. old. We went in late July and in August and most of the nights we didn't even need a tent because of no rain and no mosquitos because of the cool nights. I look forward to seeing you there. Pat Roberts |
| Name: | PATRICK |
| E-mail address: | patroberts170@msn.com |
| Comments: | I have been to the island twice, in 1975 and in 1981 and both times we're the best. I plan on taking my sons this year they are 17 yrs. old and 14 yrs. old. We went in late July and in August and most of the nights we didn't even need a tent because of no rain and no mosquitos because of the cool nights. I look forward to seeing you there. Pat Roberts |
| Name: | EZE IGBO |
| E-mail address: | EZEIGBO@GUY.COM |
| Comments: | GUYMEN SHOULD KEEPOFF
YOU HAVE A VERY NICE SITE KEEP IT UP |
| Name: | Keena |
| E-mail address: | keena@artic-wolf.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.artic-wolf.org |
| Comments: | You have done a wonderful job on this site! |
| Name: | DEBBIE |
| E-mail address: | TXGBNR@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | I HAVEN'T HAD THE PLEASURE OF VISITING THE ISLAND, BUT MY SON HAS TOLD ME ABOUT IT, HE (JUSTIN C.) WORKS ON THE ISLAND FROM MAY TO SEPT. THIS WILL BE HIS SECOND YEAR THERE AND IS EXCITED ABOUT RETURNING.MAYBE I WILL BE ABLE TO VISIT THIS SUMMER.
DEBBIE P. VERMONT |
| Name: | Tyler |
| E-mail address: | advisor@moose-moose.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.moose-moose.com |
| Comments: | Please visit our www.moose-moose.com site! |
| Name: | Ruth | |
| Comments: | Love your website...
Your website is the best |
| Name: | v alwes |
| E-mail address: | vvalwes@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Get the stupid ass annoying viagra add off the screen so I can read!!!!!! |
| Name: | Mankato_guy2001 |
| E-mail address: | Mankato_guy2001@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | It's going into the start of winter...and I am already planning on going back to the Isle for the 12th time....The Isle is the best, each time I am there, I see something new and suprising... |
| Name: | Andrew |
| E-mail address: | andro@andropos.net |
| Comments: | This site is fun. I'll be visitng regularly
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| Name: | Bob Henderson |
| E-mail address: | robert_henderson@merck.com |
| Comments: | I took some scouts last year to Glacier National Park. We
went about 50-60 miles (great trip). We are looking for somewhere closer for 2002. Can you tell me how the island stacks up to some of the other National Parks? Is there alot of other campers out on the trails on the island? We are looking to go around the last week of July-first week of August. |
| Name: | "WILLY" |
| E-mail address: | WG5SMITH@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | TRIP FOR I.R. PLANNED FOR SEPT. 01. GETTING ANY
INFORMATION I CAN. ANY COMMENTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS, WILLY |
| Name: | Pat Smith |
| E-mail address: | pmcgill@sssnet.com |
| Comments: | I am going back to the Isle for the third time in
August. This time I am going to do the Minong Ridge Trail. I have done the west end loop and most of the Greenstone. The only part of the Minong that I have done is the stretch from McCargoe Cove to Todd Harbor. That is probably the easiest part of the trail. My friend Paul and I were there twice and this time I am going with another lady. It is a truly beautiful place and the solitude is great. we hiked a 10 mile stretch and did not see one other person all day. Go and enjoy. Pat |
| Name: | Jim Sexsmith |
| E-mail address: | sexsmith@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | Great Info. I'm planning on making my first trip to IR in
mid-July with a friend. Want to go for approx. 5 days. Originally planned on hiking, but not I'm toying w/ the idea of going by canoe. Would love to do some fishing along the way. Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
| Name: | Scott |
| E-mail address: | brooery@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'm planning on making a trip up to Isle Royale in mid-
August of summer, and am trying to put together a list of necessities. Any suggestions on things that might cross my novice hiker's mind, but more importantly, is it crazy to hike the length of the island and back by oneself? I'm a novice hiker, but in great shape. As of now, I'm going solo, but that's not stopping my ambition, and neither is my mom's expected uneasiness about it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all. |
| Name: | Gary Gawne |
| E-mail address: | gawneg@ferris.edu |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ferris.edu |
| Comments: | I am planing a long awaited Dream trip to Isle Royale.
I hope to leave from Copper harbor in early to mid Aug. Any information that could be shared with me would be appreciated. Thank you! |
| Name: | David Szprejda |
| E-mail address: | bdjz@cybrzn.com |
| Comments: | June 1992
Bev, my wife, and I got off at McCargo Cove, paddled upstream to the beaver dams then portaged to Chicken Bone. We found the camp site and go set up. Around 6 PM we went out to catch super, first cast and I had a 24" northern, on the stringer he went (a chain stringer). We watch a moose in the shallows and then saw a fin (like a small shark fin) cruise through the water. I said "Bev, cast over by it and see if you can get it mad, maybe it will take it." A few minutes later Bev is screaming " Dave look at this thing, it's huge, it's on both sides of the canoe" I just agreed trying to hold the canoe from tipping with all of Bev's excitement. Another few minutes go by and just as I real in my lure I see him. He noses my lure and I say "take it, no don't, take it, no don't" as I look at this monster I realize that my rod is 6 feet long and his nose is at the tip and his fin is next to me, that puts him at about 7 and a half feet long! Now I'm shaking. Another few minutes go by and we hear this thrashing on the side of the canoe, I grab the chain stringer and pull, to my horror my 24" northern is now almost half the length of our canoe. That monster took the 24" northern head first and was now looking at me as I begin to yell "let go of my fish". It had to be funny for anyone watching, but I was scared, This monster was on our fish and our fish was attached to a chain stringer that was attached to our canoe that we were sitting in! Finally he opened his mouth (which Bev says a basket ball could have fit in) and out came the now very quiet little northern. He laid in the bottom of our canoe only moving a gill plate every now and then. We won't wash our hands in the lake anymore. This is one of those incidents that when my wife gets to heaven she wants to ask God about him. We fantasized about how we could land this thing and keep it cool a day until the boat came again, but to this day this fish is a supreme memory. |
| Name: | Phil Roos |
| E-mail address: | proos@arborstrategy.com |
| Comments: | We're thinking of going canoe camping at Isle Royale for a
few days this summer. I have two questions for anyone who can provide any advice or suggestions: 1) We have three kids: 11, 7, and 7. Are we crazy to try to canoe-camp on Isle Royale? Any advice/cautionary tales? 2) We haven't been able to locate any canoe/camp outfitters. Any suggestions? We'd be coming from the Michigan side (Houghton/Copper Harbor). Thanks in advance. Phil |
| Name: | Dan |
| E-mail address: | danwallis@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I can't wait to get back out to The Island. I haven't been
to there in nearly 3 years. Being able to share this experience with my 6-year-old son will top all of our previous hiking and camping trips. |
| Name: | April |
| E-mail address: | kkermitt@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Isle Royale is the best. My second trip was summer 2000. My
boyfriend and I got engaged just before we spent 12 days on the Island. Isle Royale is such a meaningful, spiritual place to us, that we are going to have IR Greenstone set in our wedding bands. It's great to share such a wonderful place to share with so many people. |
| Name: | Carl Malsom |
| E-mail address: | wicker@wmis.net |
| Comments: | My friend, John Thonton, and I were fishing from a canoe
that we had packed into Chickenbone Lake from McCargoe Cove. It was late morning and we had 2 or 3 walleyes on the stringer. John had just tied into another of the many 20 to 24 inch notherns that we had hooked and released that morning. Suddenly his drag starts unwinding rapidly, line sceaming out. Back under the canoe, then out to one side, then out another. It stayed down through a long fight then slowly came to the surface about 20 feet out from the canoe. The small northern that he had hooked was turned half upside-down. You could see the white of its belly. Then you saw something else. A long dark shadow stretching about 4 to 5 feet out from the small pike. It came to the surface and it was the biggest northern pike I had ever seen. Eyes about 6 inches apart and looking straight at us. Wild and scary looking. It had attacked the pike that John on his line and it wasn't ready to let go. We didn't have a net so I told John I had a short handled gaff in my tackel box. I also told John I hoped that sucker was going to let go because I didn't want to stick my hand down next to those eyes and all those teeth. It sat there and stared at us for about 30 seconds then made one big thrash, released the small pike and dove for the bottom. I quickly reached over the edge of the canoe and lifted in our stringer of walleyes. That was about 20 years ago. I still remember it clearly. I am going back to the Island again this June. |
| Name: | Dan Nash |
| E-mail address: | dbnash416@aol.com |
| Name: | Brian |
| E-mail address: | br151@bigfoot.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/br6873 |
| Comments: | Great web site. My best friend and I went to Isle Royale
for the first time last year and we enjoyed our trip very much and would like to go back, hopefully next year. Your web site was on of the ones I referred to several times before we left as I did some research into where to go and what to expect. I have also made my own web site with a journal of our trip. I also included a bunch of links to other sites about Isle Royale. The links are some of the better sites I found on the internet. I created my web site so other first-time visitors would have a good starting point to look for quality information on this beautiful place. |
| Name: | Dan Pugh |
| E-mail address: | DandKPugh@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'll be kayaking on the island between May 26th and June
5th. Starting from Rock Harbor, I'll take the water taxi to Chippewa Harbor and then go through all the connected inland lakes up to McCargoe Cove. After hopefully having a freah supply of food delivered there by ferry, I'll continue working my way along the North Shore and finally to the long Duncan Bay to Tobin Harbor portage. The trip of my dreams for the last decade and I'm so looking forward to this retreat. Let me know if you'll be there around this time or if you've taken this trip (or a part of it). |
| Name: | Gary Schulz |
| E-mail address: | gsschulz@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | We are planning our first trip to Isle Royale in early June
2000 and would like some info on what to see, what to do, what trails are best, etc, etc...Any info would be greatly appreciated. |
| Name: | Mike Smitherman |
| E-mail address: | smitty013@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | We are planning a second trip to the island in june. last
trip was in september of 1996 crossed from copper harbor in 14 foot waves not a pleasant experiance, but it was worth the pain. recomend this trip for anyone wanting a lifetime experiance. we will be conoeing and hiking from rock harbor to siskwit and north. if you have the opportunity to see the northern lights from this place you will be awestruck. |
| Name: | frannie |
| E-mail address: | laughalittle33@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I'm planning a trip for 4 to Isle Royale this may and I am
lost doing my itinerary. I cant find any good info on trails, trail mileage, and trail terain. If anyone has any suggestions on where I could find some (possibly free) info please help me out |
| Name: | David C. Barnum |
| E-mail address: | Dcbarnum@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.isleroyalefamilies.org |
| Name: | jen witting |
| E-mail address: | jwitting@nmu.edu |
| Comments: | i was just getting some info for a report that i have due
in geography. i have been to the island several times and much enjoy your page. |
| Name: | David Mackay |
| E-mail address: | dmackay@dodgenet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://dmackay@dodgenet.com/~dmackay/index.html |
| Comments: | We have a Boy Scout Troop that is planning a backpacking
trip to Isle Royale for this summer. We will probably take 6 young men and 2 adult leaders. We have all the official information on the Isle and trasportation. None of us have been to Isle Royale before. Is there anyone/anyplace to get a recommended or sample iteneraries for a group? We're looking more for advise on what to do and see when we're there rather than advise on camping. P.S. This dreambook site is great and we're glad we found it. |
| Name: | Ryan |
| E-mail address: | Cassidy430@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Nice web page. I was planning on taking a dream trip this
summer with a freind of mine to Isle Royale and was wondering if you knew of any good flyfishing opportunities on the island. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
| Name: | Mike |
| E-mail address: | erickson@tacamo.navy.mil |
| Comments: | Great page...really useful service. I'm interested in
doing a one day run around Isle Royale and am wondering if anyone here has done this on the Island? I'm a reasonable experienced ultrarunner (many 100 and 50 milers) but haven't been to to the island yet... Thoughts? Comments? Thanks, Mike |
| Name: | lansing sickles |
| E-mail address: | gte9100@yahoo.com |
| Name: | lansing sickles |
| E-mail address: | gte9100@yahoo.com |
| Name: | lansing sickles |
| E-mail address: | gte9100@yahoo.com |
| Name: | lansing sickles |
| E-mail address: | gte9100@yahoo.com |
| Name: | lansing sickles |
| E-mail address: | gte9100@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Kip |
| E-mail address: | kipbrockman@home.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.tripod.com/~UnknownProgrammer/hippy.html |
| Comments: | Isle Royale is now on my list thanks |
