[Rhodes22-list] Cruising To Garden Island - The Rest Of The Story

Thu Oct 8 08:03:50 EDT 2020

Hi Jesse,

There is actually another chapter to the Garden Island Cruise.  My older son, Daniel, was looking around for an Eagle Service Project when we visited Garden Island.  He decided he would try to do some trail improvements on the deserted island.  This was a pretty ambitious project considering Garden Island is ~35 miles offshore in the middle of northern Lake Michigan!  I didn’t think about it anymore until, one day at work,  I got a telephone call from the Commander of the US Coast Guard Station, Charlevoix, MI.  He asked me if I knew a Boy Scout named Daniel Pihlaja.  I thought, “Oh No, what does the US Coast Guard want with Daniel?!?”  The Commander told me they had discussed Daniel’s potential Eagle Service Project, that he was very impressed with Daniel’s enthusiasm and salesmanship, and was just trying to confirm if this kid was for real or not before committing US Coast Guard resources.  Anyway, we ended up doing the trail improvement project as our Troop’s High Adventure Backcountry Camping Trip the following summer.  The US Coast Guard transported us and our gear from Charlevoix to Garden Island aboard one of their cutters.  This was done at taxpayer expense as a “training exercise”.  The US Coast Guard dropped us off, sailed away, and picked us up four days later.  It was a very lonely feeling watching the ship sail away when you are on an uninhabited island in the middle of Lake Michigan!  Besides the US Coast Guard, Daniel also had to obtain permission from the Michigan DNR and the Chippewa Indian Tribe to do this project.  All the permits from these various burocracies took several months to obtain and I was impressed with Daniel’s patience and persistence as he successfully jumped thru every hoop.  The MDNR had a very specific design for trail signs that we had to follow.  We prefabricated the trail signs over the winter.  The Chippewa Indian Tribe’s primary concern was that the sanctity and dignity of their ancient burial ground be preserved.  They asked that none of the trail maps show the location of the burial ground.  They also had us put up a sign at the entrance explaining it was holy ground and what was expected of visitors.  We had two base camps, one on the north and the other on the south end of the island.  Each day, after breakfast, we broke up into work parties and installed our assigned trail signs.  We were usually done by early afternoon and the rest of the day was spent swimming and exploring.  After two days, we moved our base camp to a location more convenient to install the trail signs on the other end of the island.  It was actually quite a relaxing trip.

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From: Jesse Shumaker<mailto:jesse.laten.shumaker at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5:39 PM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] August, 2006 High Adventure Kayaking Trip To The Apostle Islands

Roger, thanks for sharing the PDF of your 2006 adventure in the Apostle
Islands.  When I was doing a brief review of Peter's new draft of the
website last week, I stumbled on the account of your trip from
Charlevoix to Beaver Island and Garden Island in Northern Michigan.  That
is quite an ambitious trip for a 22' boat!  After spending time exploring
Grand Traverse Bay a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I are planning
(weather permitting) to make the trek from Charlevoix to Beaver Island in a
bigger boat that we'll be chartering with another couple in late June next
year.

Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 6:15 AM ROGER PIHLAJA <roger_pihlaja at msn.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I keep forgetting that the Rhodes List server strips out MS Word
> documents.  The attached .pdf file is the day-by-day summary of the trip
> mentioned  below.
>
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
>
> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
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> From: ROGER PIHLAJA<mailto:roger_pihlaja at msn.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 6:18 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] August, 2006 High Adventure Kayaking Trip To The
> Apostle Islands
>
> From: ROGER PIHLAJA<mailto:roger_pihlaja at msn.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 6:15 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: August, 2006 High Adventure Kayaking Trip To The Apostle Islands
>
> Hi All,
>
> I finally found the files for the sea kayaking trip that Daniel, Gary,
> Patrick Aldrich, and I took to the Apostle Islands on August 25-28, 2006.
> Patrick Aldrich was one of Daniel’s friends from Boy Scouts.  The attached
> MS Word file is a day-by-day summary of the trip with an annotated chart
> showing our travels.  The rest of the attached files are photos.  The thing
> about the sea caves that surprised me the most was how colorful they were
> inside.
>
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
>
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> From: ROGER PIHLAJA<mailto:Roger_Pihlaja at msn.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 6:18 PM
> To: Bill Woodgate<mailto:wrwoodgate at gmail.com>; Gary Pihlaja<mailto:
> gjpihlaja at gmail.com>; Mr. Daniel Pihlaja<mailto:dpihlaja83 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Proposed Summer of 2021 High Adventure Sailing/Kayaking Trip To
> The Apostle Islands
>
> Hi All,
>
> I’ve tried to imagine in a little more detail what a High Adventure Trip
> in the Apostle Islands with S/V Dynamic Equilibrium and the kayaks might
> look like.  The attached MS PowerPoint file gives an overview of the float
> plan.  We would probably want to do this trip in mid August, 2021 to give
> Lake Superior as much time as possible to warm up.  Each day’s course on
> the mother ship is shown in a different color and paddling trips are shown
> in red.  These are going to be several very rich full days in a row; but,
> still doable.
>
> Proposed Itinerary:
>
> Day      Description
>
> 1             Drive to Little Sand Bay Visitor Center & set up camp at
> Little Sand Bay CG
>
> 2             Morning day trip paddle to Squaw Bay Sea Caves, Lunch at
> camp, Rig & launch sailboat, Sail out to Sand Island, Camp on Sand Island
> NOTE: The day trip paddle could be switched to the last day to accommodate
> weather
>
> 3             Hike to Sand Island Lighthouse, Day trip paddle to Justice
> Bay Sea Caves, Sail to Devil’s Island, Day trip paddle to Devil’s Island
> Sea Caves, Sail to Rocky Island, Camp at Rocky Island CG
>
> 4             Sail to Manitou Island, Tour Manitou Island Fish Camp, Sail
> To Stockton Island via east coast & decide if sea caves and balancing rock
> are worth a day trip paddle, moor at Stockton Island Dock 1, tour Stockton
> Island Visitor Center, Camp at Stockton Island CG
>
> 5             Sail back to Little Sand Bay Visitor Center, retrieve and
> unrig boat, camp at Little Sand Bay CG
>
> 6             Drive home
>
> This float plan will let visit all the major sea caves, sea arches, sea
> stacks, and other major attractions in the Apostle Islands archipelago.
> Devil’s Island is the northern most island in the archipelago.  The dock at
> Rocky Island is one of the most protected docks, especially in the outer
> islands.  We could hunker down here to allow bad weather to pass by if we
> had to.  The dock at Stockton Island is also relatively well protected,
> except from the south and southwest.  Both Sand Island and Stockton Island
> have ranger stations if we get in trouble.
>
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
>
>
>
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