A video of my husband and I doing the Greenstone trail westbound from July 31 to Aug 6 for anyone looking for recent conditions.

Were there any other options for water that you can recall near S Desor? We'll be coming up from Siskiwit Bay and I don't see anything on the map past Island Mine area. I guess we can pack an extra liter for that stretch - wouldn't want the mucky taste to ruin my morning coffee... I think Desor is ...

We don’t pre filter our water, we just use one of those gravity filters. Talking to other people, they all said the water tasted terrible from Desor. I wonder why? It was still fairly smoky on our way out, although not nearly as bad on the way in. I never noticed it affecting my breathing, at least ...

Irnp trip 7/31 Took 2pm seaplane out of Houghton, MI. Plane ride was smooth but unfortunately the view was obscured from all the wildfire smoke from Canada and out west, couldn’t see the island until we were practically on top of her. The smoke stayed with us throughout the trip, which was a huge bu...

Hoping to go to the island for a 3rd time the end of this month. We decided it’s time to do an end to end trip but are having a hard time deciding between the Greenstone or the Minong. One of us wants to do the Greenstone since it’s the quintessential hike for IR, the other wants to do the Minong be...