Once in a lifetime tip over superior???

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anonomoose

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Yeah, been thinking or dreaming about what it would be like to take off say from Marquette or Munising and trekking across the big lake.

I think it could be done now and probably for the next couple weeks.

Just something to say you did once...

Maybe a trip from the kew to isle royal? Probably all those stupid wolves have figured out how to get off the island by now and could spend the night and trip back again.

Hey...it is possible, right?
 
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ezra

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deff would want a good water skipper like a old edge or zx chassis just in case. deff not the place for your nose heavy 3/4 tons. think Gordon is to old and drunk to wright a song about the wreck of the moose apex
 
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xplorer

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I would do some serious checking with alot of NWS, NOAA and MSU folks before I even thought about that. All ice is not considered equal................

Pack ice (ice broken up and pushed back together again and frozen) is very dangerous. 12" here and 2" fifty feet away. The NW winds this year have broken up alot of ice, there has been open water along the Duluth and near north shore for the majority of the winter.

Just sayin...exercise caution. Isle Royale by sled would be epic tho : )
 
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ranlam

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Do it, i dare you.
We will see that rescue helicopter UP here yet, almost had it up here a month ago.
 
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snake

Member
Good fricken luck!! send copies of bank accounts and all savings to authorites first so they can be sure rescue is covered. j.k. I get the feeling you're just dreaming(like you said)
 
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Trees4Traction440

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All the deep snow the UP has to ride in and your dreaming of riding across a flat frozen lake......sheesh lol


im kidding, would definatly be something to brag about, my dad has rode around the big lake twice since 06 and is cool telling people that because most dont believe it can be done lol
 
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dblshock

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without snowcover I'd think you wouldn't make it far because of the heaved ice, even then I'd worry of drifts..has this ever been done? dog sled?
 
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anonomoose

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I am sure it has been done on foot, maybe dragging a canoe??

It would be all about the challenge to do it....as I am sure it would not compare to riding thru the mountains and hills and forests. But it's THERE and it would be interesting to see if anyone would be up to the challenge. I would suspect that once a decent route was found across that it might be done over and back in only a few hours by someone who wants to chaulk it up and off his bucket list. I admit that it might very well be the last thing a sledder might try doing too....

Now before anyone gets their lingerie stuck in their behind, this is only theoretical ....and I am NOT planning on doing it and don't recommend doing it unless you want to die...then it would beat say jumping off the mighty mack, or a freeway somewhere and certain to bring you more publicity if you accomplish and verify that it was done....I can see John rollin his eyes on this one! :)

Let's see....nothing wrong with a one ton apex.....probably get from one side to the other without a normal 2 smoker engine burn down, and a good set of skis for a potential foot trip back...ice picks.....life raft, wet suit, peanut butter sandwich or two....NO DAM BEER THO...and a good sat phone...perhaps a tent....passport.....whistle....ah...leave the whistle home! What am I missing? Oh, flight plan with wife and whereabouts of last will and test.
 
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whitedust

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I can find some open water & you can ride into & drown don't need to trailer way up to Superior if that's the way one wishes to die it would be the last thing on the bucket list. No idea why this was brought up but whatever??
 
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mezz

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We've done a couple shoreline trips amongst the ice heaves & let me tell ya, it's freakin scary, something I will never do again. It was beautiful, but, the trip in & out was pretty treacherous. Sleds sliding off of car sized ice chunks, not cool. Imagine that across the vastness of the entire lake, no thanks.-Mezz
 
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G

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Not that big of a deal. Fly over it a few times. Pick out a flat route and GPS it. Key is flat with no ice sharks. Put extra wheels in skid frame as there will be snowless stretches. You would also want to rig an air to air radiator if using a liquid cooled sled. I personally would use a 2002 ZR 800 with big fat C@A skis. Also important to remove snowflap if running water for any length of time. Have a Cessna 150 lead the way and guide you. And of course wear a lifejacket over your TekVest so the chase Helicopter can grab you if needed. Piece of cake.
 
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frnash

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Apparently it has been done — on foot (snowshoes/skis), I just found this on PastyCam today:

Copied from George Hite's Eagle Harbor Web:

Ice Walking(2/22/03)
As I look out across ice stretching to the horizon, I think of the either brave or foolhardy souls who in the days of Isle Royale’s copper mining and timbering boomlet, reportedly walked from the island across the frozen lake to the Keweenaw. One of these men of lore was Eagle Harbor’s Richard Harvey, the great granddaddy of Susan Adams and Becky Markee and founder of The Harvey Boarding House, the beautifully maintained old home that sits kiddy-corner from the Shoreline Resort. Richard's obituary tells of his youthful trek across the ice, with three other lads and two horses, from Isle Royale to Copper Harbor - a distance of over 50 miles! I doubt if they were riding the horses, and given the rough ice they must have encountered, it’s not likely they traveled more than two, perhaps three, miles per hour – meaning they were out on the lake for 17 to 25 hours. In mid winter, all but about nine of those hours in winter darkness. And no satellite photos to assure them the ice was solid. Incredible!
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agriffinjd

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anonomoose said:
I am sure it has been done on foot, maybe dragging a canoe??

It would be all about the challenge to do it....as I am sure it would not compare to riding thru the mountains and hills and forests. But it's THERE and it would be interesting to see if anyone would be up to the challenge. I would suspect that once a decent route was found across that it might be done over and back in only a few hours by someone who wants to chaulk it up and off his bucket list. I admit that it might very well be the last thing a sledder might try doing too....

Now before anyone gets their lingerie stuck in their behind, this is only theoretical ....and I am NOT planning on doing it and don't recommend doing it unless you want to die...then it would beat say jumping off the mighty mack, or a freeway somewhere and certain to bring you more publicity if you accomplish and verify that it was done....I can see John rollin his eyes on this one! :)

Let's see....nothing wrong with a one ton apex.....probably get from one side to the other without a normal 2 smoker engine burn down, and a good set of skis for a potential foot trip back...ice picks.....life raft, wet suit, peanut butter sandwich or two....NO DAM BEER THO...and a good sat phone...perhaps a tent....passport.....whistle....ah...leave the whistle home! What am I missing? Oh, flight plan with wife and whereabouts of last will and test.
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Don't forget a live-feed go-pro video cam to a website recording so it can be shown at the Darwin Awards show later in the year...
 
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jd

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Staff member
If you are going to be leaving from Marquette, Munising or many areas of the UP, you had better either be a very strong swimmer or very good at water skipping, as there is around 5 miles of open water off the shoreline.

But I'd say go for it anyway 'moose. :eek:

-John
 
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jd

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Staff member
anonomoose said:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/sicethk+01.gif

Looks pretty solid to me! Some major ice out there now!
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Then stop talking about it and do it! Just let me know how that first 6-8 miles goes over open water and then the slush (not ice) for most of the rest of the trip and the 1-2 mile wide areas of open water in spots.
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Every map you have shown is a hand drawn generalization of things. I like to stick to real deal.

But then again, you are never wrong, Eh?

-John
 
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