Past event

Family Hiking & Scenic Trip

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  • Place: Keweenaw Peninsula
Six adults and a toddler stand together on a windy beach under grey skies, with MSA written in the sand.

A bus full of families up the Keweenaw — Great Sand Bay, a fog-wrapped Brockway Mountain, and Copper Harbor. Worth every minute.

The trip was open to MSA members and their families, with a limited number of guest and community spots by reservation. Everyone met at Upper Daniel Heights on Sunday morning and boarded a school bus for a full day on the road.

The fog came along for the ride. It hung over the road on the way up, and Great Sand Bay greeted us with a grey, windy morning and waves rolling in off the lake. We lined up for group photos at the water’s edge anyway, and MSA ended up written in big letters in the sand.

At Brockway Mountain the fog was so thick you could not see past the edge of the hill, and the summit kept its view entirely to itself. We never did get that view, but we would go again tomorrow. From there the day carried on to Copper Harbor, and the trip ran until about 7 PM.

The day’s plan

  • Beach time at Great Sand Bay
  • Brockway Mountain scenic overlooks
  • Fort Wilkins State Park
  • Pizza lunch provided by MSA
  • Dhuhr prayer and family time
  • Free time in Copper Harbor

Thank you to every family who came along, and to everyone who organized the day.

Photos

A yellow school bus drives ahead through thick fog at a town intersection, seen through a car windshield.
A man leans on a wooden railing above a long, curving sandy beach with waves under an overcast sky.
The letters MSA drawn large in wet sand, with grey waves rolling in behind under a cloudy sky.
Four men stand together at the water's edge on a sandy beach, with choppy waves and grey clouds behind.
A man sits at the edge of a mountain overlook, with forested slopes below fading into thick fog.
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