Today's Miles: 7.1
Cumulative Miles: 7.1
Last night was not a restful night. The howling of the wind made it hard to sleep. I'm sure I fell asleep at some point in the night, but it sure didn't feel like it. We were out of the tent by 7, though I was awake long before. Packing up the tent was a struggle. We had to move our car across the road behind a stand of trees. We then carried the tent across the street behind the wind break provided by the trees and the truck. It worked.
After we had everthing else packed up, we headed to the National Park office to pick up our backcountry permits, then to the Munising falls visitor center to wait for the shuttle, which was picking us up at 10. We had time to make some oatmeal in the parking lot and to check out the falls.
The shuttle was pretty empty. There was only 3 other people besides Jamie and I. There was a nice older couple and a younger guy who was going solo. We had a nice chat on the hour drive to Grand Marais.
By 11, we were on the trail.
The first part of the trail was nothing special. We hiked through the woods, on a road for a bit, along a lake, and through the woods a bit more.
We started off at a good clip, but we soon started to slow down. We ate lunch after 4 miles. At a little over 5 miles, we came to the lookout for the Grand Sable Dunes.
After this, the trail got more interesting. There were some steep decents, some good views over looking Lake Superior, and some cool boardwalks through the woods.
We made it to our camp at Au Sable East, where we are the only ones here. Not a whole lot happening in camp. Just resting up for tomorrow, which will be our longest day.
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