• Thursday-What'sUP December 17 - 06:56 am

By popular demand, we spotlight a shot from Dave of Laurium, which he gave us a small glimpse of yesterday. This time it's also available in the various WOW format's (1600 1024 800 640) to decorate your desktop for the holidays.

Seven years ago when we started this daily feature, it was just my son Jonathan and I taking turns at the pictures and doing the regular duties of publishing the Pasty Cam. (This is Jonathan looking down US-41, just one ridge over from Dave's vantage point... a Cam shot on April 21, 1998):

Wow! Love this sight - thanks for all the great pictures!

Ditto!! Love the pics. I don't know if they make me more homesick or having the feeling of being close to home.

Great picture! The scenery is fantastic and the lighting is superb. I love it!

If anyone hasn't ordered the calendar, you should! It is beautiful.

You may also order the Dan Urbanski Memorial calendar and lots of other great gift ideas from our Pasty Softwear gifts. Here is the link. Pasty Softwear

It's beautiful. Have ya'll considered making a calendar. I could look at this picture for a month. Cold here in Va and maybe... maybe.... snow on Sunday or Monday.
We're dreamining of a White Christmas....

Amazing photo. I have never seen the Keweenaw from this angle. Thanks for taking the time and the climb.

Infinite Gratitude Again!!!!!!! This one is Awesome... Thanks Dave!!! It is so appreciated!!!!
when we are soooooooo far away... Blessed - Joyous Solstice, Christmas and Holiday Season to you ALL..... Peace

Can you still get up to the old Cliff Mine area. I know there are or were some boulders at the entrance but can one still walk up?

This is the first website I hit every morning. I haven't been in the UP since '86 but I still miss it and have nothing but fond memories of my time spent up 'der exploring the country.

I forward this website to everyone that has ever lived in da UP.

It's a wonderful service that you all provide. Thanks and have a very merry Christmass!

Thanks for the gorgeous picture!! It looks like an oil painting. We get snow here in Missouri, but it sure doesn't look like this. WOW!!

beautiful. what a great winter scene.

Wow, excellent picture of the cliffs of the Greenstone Flow. Most likely the largest single lava flow in the world. I can't even begin to add up all the time I spend poking around the old mine dumps and climbing the cliffs. It's been way too long since I've been up there, and I need to go back.......SOON!

Alen in Lansing, Where can I find out about the Greenstrone Flow?

j Atlanta, Try this link for a good starting point.

http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/collectors_corner/vft/mi1.htm

I enjoyed this page with it's story of molten lava exploding
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/geog/shoreline/shore_5.html

We learn a lot on this site.

Anne & Allan, Thanks for those links, really interesting information an lots of historic photo's

Just a beautiful photo. Ansel Adams would be pround of this one.

This is an amazing picture! Thanks for sharing! For some reason, though, it makes me think of the movie Return of the King...i don't know why...

Yay for Christmas break! Happy Holidays!!

Another awesome pic. It looks so lonely and haunting...I guess that is just a quality of home I'll never get over. Nothing to look at today in Knoxville but express way, other drivers, and gray skies. Snow with accumulation on sunday.

There are two boats in Bete Gris Bay, does Mr. Bill have any pictures yet?

Does anyone know what the building is in the lower left of this photo? I think it is, or was, a tavern that I was in as recently as 1994.

I think it's the house that's along that stretch. The Vansville bar and the Cliff View are the two driveways further up the road.

Isnt Elno N.just a great guy for erecting the tower up on top the cliff(actually twice) it blew down once in high winds----being in his late 70s and hauling all the material up there himself------Way to go elmo

Wish I was there right now!

To all those interested in the geology around the area:

If you have ever seen the pictures from Iceland when the huge fissure eruptions were happening in the 70's, this is what the Keweenaw is thought to have looked like. The lava shot up like huge fountains as much as 200 feet in the air! The Greenstone Flow is the largest known single lava flow in the world, being in places over 400 metres thick and covering over 5000 sq. km. The GreatLakes.net page is a good starting point though things could be explained a little better at times.

I guess at those years in college taught me something..... ;-)

dear duz,

See What's UP.

Please send me the info to get my copy of the calendar. I know that I am going to love it.
Barb
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

Allen, Anne and Capt. Paul
Thank you so much for the information and information sources. I may get an education yet!

Dave of Larium,

Great follow up to your summer picture. How long did it take you to hike up with the snow, and just how old are you?

Mr Bill, Age is irrelevant, Elmo Climbs it all the time and no one can keep up with him on a dance floor, He is one in a million.

What a great photo!

I could stare at this photo all day... I swear it changes each time I look at it.
Fantastic photography!

Elmo's tower holds special memories, I got married on Elmo's tower just a little over 5 years ago. It over looks my home, the Phoenix Store, owned by Arbutus Peterson, my mom. Elmo's tower was the perfect spot!