Success! I'm on my car ride home from Houghton after a great trip. We had 3 kayakers. Storms forecasted for Monday most of the day, so we kept an eye on that and used that to set the schedule.

We ended up with the following route:
Friday: dropped off at Mott island at 2:30, paddled to Moskey Basin ...

FYI, i called the ranger today about getting off at Mott Island. You don't need a different ticket. You just tell them when you're loading on the ranger that you're going to Mott and they tag your kayak with a different colored tag and your gear goes on a separate cart from the rock harbor ...

Thanks for all of the input, it has been very helpful. I'm considering either reversing and spending more time in the five fingers to pickerel area with the possibility of making the inland lakes depending on weather, or heading back. Or also made the Mott island starting point to save some time and ...

Hello,

I'm planning my first visit to IR with a friend Labor Day weekend from Friday to Wednesday. We will be kayaking. My friend is quite experienced, I am a novice having just gotten a ws tsunami 145 this year. Have taken a basic paddling course and 4 hour rescue and recovery course. I have been ...