"Jim" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:45:38 -0400
"Ed Huntress" wrote:

The year my boss bought a piece of land up there, and he had me
research everything he'd need for a bank to finance it (it was for
recreation property), Copper Harbor had 264 inches of snow. That was
the highest in the US at the time.

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Ed Huntress


2007-2008 Snowfall To Date March 26, 2008 - 258.2"and 34" on the
ground. Melting pretty good now, but we are still ice fishing.

1978 was the worst I remember... 354". Lots of winter kill on the
deer herd, but a lot of the deer moved down to the banana belt, around
Crystal falls and Iron Mountain.

Ha-ha! I'm trying to picture Iron Mountain as a banana belt. g

Did you ever read _Trout Madness_ by Robert Traver? (That was his pen
name -- he was a lawyer who also wrote _Anatomy of a Murder_.) I read it
when I was around 12, living in Pennsylvania at the time. It was a goal of
mine to try to retrace his fishing haunts some day in the Upper Peninsula.
When I got the chance (I think it was 1971), I spent about six weeks of the
summer trying to do exactly that.

Years later I met a guy online who knew him and generally where he fished.
It turns out he was from Escanaba and fished mostly in the lower part of the
UP. I had chased all around looking for beaver ponds with big brookies, all
the way up to the Keweenaw.

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Ed Huntress