• Sunday-What'sUP March 22 - 02:41 pm

Looks like something out of Buck Rogers... This was an experimental machine which touched down at the Airport a number of decades ago, as R.C. Wetton reported the old news clipping in his guest album:

BOARDING the marsh screw type vehicle was this group of the American and Canadian military leaders, industrial personnel and educators viewing testing operations yesterday at the Keweenaw Field Station now operated by Michigan Tech. Many local residents as well saw this piece of equipment in operation.

Courtesy of NASA-Johnson Space Center

Good Morning!

Good Morning everyone, have a great day on this
Palm Sunday!

What a phenomenal astronaut photo of the Keweenaw!
Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us.

Yippee! I know I'll never be that high up to see it for real, this is just as good.

Good morning from Mishawaka IN. Just took a walk thru Mr. Wetton's album. Some beautiful and very interesting pictures. Thank you for sharing. Have a good Palm Sunday everyone.

Good Morning!
SPECTACULAR pictures, ideas, links, today!
Thank you!

WOW! The NASA photo takes my breath away. That "finger" of Keweenaw testing the waters of Lake Superior is probably finding it still too cold for a swim :>.

Looks good with no snow.

P.S. HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY, Bill Penprase!!
--Pasty Net devotee & contributor
--Spinner of great U.P. yarns, which flow out
of the valut of his amazing memory of wonder
years in God's country.
--Fellow Yooper in So. California
Have a festive celebration with your family today!

Woops--the "v" word above is supposed to be "vault" of course!

an absolutely awesome picture of the Keweenaw. I am counting down the days till mid August when I cna get back up to Houghton and points north. I am 50, back in school full time at WMU, and life is hectic to say the least. My 2 weeks in August spent wandering the Keweenaw is my sanity break, sleeping on the Gratiot or Montreal Rivers, visiting the mine dumps, or 2-tracking on the tip. I envy those who can live there full time. I'll see if this year I can find the old copper falls mine!

I wish someone would send in some pictures of all the deer in Cedar Bay. When I was there,I seen at least 200 of them. Believe it or not!

L. Hart, I wouldn't be two concerned about the spelling glitch, because you had the first and last letter correct, which apparently is all that matters:

As lnog as the fsirt and lsat lreetts are crcoret, the rset wlil be hlaednd bauecse the mnid deos not raed the iniddivaul ltteers.

Interesting sattalite veiw of the Keweenaw.

All of Bill Penprase's recollections from his time spent in the Keweenaw have been Pasty Cam posts well worth savoring (and remembering) over the past few years.
Thanks for the memories, Bill!

What year is that clipping from... Anyone know? WOW! That DOES look like something from Buck Rogers!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL - haven't seen your great insight on here much lately. Hope all is well with you and you have a great and blessed birthday. Mom says HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL TOO. She can't believe you are 80 tho.

This machine can be David Brown factory product!
Icebreaker!

Can't quite recall exactly, Alex but it was early 60s. I should have dated them!!

Maybe mid 60's......I don't recall that exact machine, but there was one called the Snowbird or Keybird or something..circa 1965......alcohol may have been involved......It certainly was in the design and construction of this machine.....LOL

so did the thing work or not?

RCW-you've had many airport & related items on the Pasty Cam before. Just how long have you been connected with the airline profession. How are you connected with the Houghton County Airport???

CC Resident. Well I started working for the county at CMX in late 1958 and in late 1960 I started with NCA and put in 25 years untill deregulation allowed Republic to pull out in 1985.When I started at the county in 58 there were only 2 of us there, and all we had was gas truck, a pickup, and some snow shovels to keep the runway lights open. At that time the road commision would come up once a day and plow one runway 13-31. Those were fun fun days!!

Joe Tampa, what are you saying, "NO SNOW???" Why, it is still snowmobiling and skiing weather here!

What a fantastic picture!! I just love it.

Hei RCW, I remember those screw machines, too. I think they were at Tech at one of their open houses or ?? Very early snow mobile and they would float but didn't travel very fast on the water. Seems they could turn around on a dime, one screw turned one way, the other in reverse. I thought they were there in the late 50s or very early 60s.

unfortunatley, not much sun while attempting to shoot my panoranmic shots at Brockaway ridge on Saturday - use your left right scroll bar to see the whole effort EAST then SOUTH http://www.wrycza.org/pics/keweenau/brockawaypano.jpg

NORTH then EAST
http://www.wrycza.org/pics/keweenau/brockawaypano2.jpg

Copper Harbor looking North
http://www.wrycza.org/pics/keweenau/copperharborpano.jpg

Link;

http://www.mobilia.fi/petsamo/lapintp-kuvat/ltp16b.jpg

John W,

Great panoranmnic pics of Keweenaw...almost like being there. Well almost...sniffle, sniffle...waaa!

thats a really cool pic of the keweenaw and looks cool with no clouds or snow