This year’s Au Sable River Canoe Marathon featured a record 230 paddlers from 21 states and four countries racing overnight from Grayling to Oscoda.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: UP bakery run by monks offers pastries, prayers
Customers come from all over to visit the Jampot, a tiny bakery on a monastery way up on a remote Michigan peninsula.
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Listen: Who’s buried atop Michigan’s tallest mountain?
The name on a gravestone atop Mount Arvon has no clear ties to Michigan. Our reporter looked into why it might be up there.
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Sugar Loaf ski resort may get new life as public recreational area
After 25 years, Leelanau County residents and visitors would finally be able to hike, bike and sled on the slopes of an abandoned ski resort.
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Michigan Dreaming Bucket List: Chill with sled dogs in the heat of summer
Long-distance musher Laura Neese opened MI Dog: Michigan’s summer sled dog center to showcase the sport and make money in the off-season.
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How many waterfalls are in the UP? Meet the Michigan man who keeps counting
Officials generally acknowledge around 300 waterfalls in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. ‘Yooper Steve’ says he’s found more than 800 and is on a mission to find 1,000.
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50 years after Edmund Fitzgerald sank, swimmers to complete ‘final voyage’
The Edmund Fitzgerald was carrying Iron Ore to Detroit when it sank in 1975, killing all crew members. Now, 68 swimmers — Led by Jim “The Shark” Dreyer — will complete the mission.
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Video: Freighter's near sinking shows risk still exists on the Great Lakes
It’s been 50 years since a freighter sank on the Great Lakes, but the the Michipicoten’s close call shows the risk still exists.
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Fe, a record-setting Michigan loon, births ‘downy fluffballs’ No. 43 and 44
Fe, believed to be the world’s oldest and most prolific common loon, hatched two more chicks this season at Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Researchers say her known offspring count is at least 44, with likely more unrecorded.
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Meet Michigan’s floating post office: How mail gets to Great Lakes freighters
You’ve Got Mail: How a small boat delivers packages and more to passing Great Lakes freighters.