My friend, Amanda, and I took a little snowshoe journey out to the Copper Harbor Lighthouse last Sunday. It was during that excursion that we acquired the photos for Monday’s photo essay and Tuesday’s lighthouse story.

We began the day with a little ski excursion up at the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge, where new ski trails were created over the last summer. There is also a Perimeter Loop, which is a groomed track around the golf course.

After 45 minutes of skiing, we returned to Amanda’s house for sandwiches made by yours truly. These wonderful sandwiches were made with love and consisted of whole grain bread embracing turkey, provolone, tomato, lettuce, sprouts grown by Amanda, guacamole, and mayonnaise. This is my favorite sandwich.

After sandwiches, we set out for a snowshoe hike around the Copper Harbor Lighthouse. We spent quite a bit of our time hiking on Lake Superior, mostly within Copper Harbor. We acquired a lot of great photos, and we even made it in a Copper Harbor Cam photo – something that Amanda has been trying to do for a while.

After snowshoeing, we ran errands in town. We actually had a list! We finished the errand-running with nachos at the Mariner. I was craving fake cheese from another place, but Amanda gave me a pretty awful look, “Do you know what’s in that stuff? It’s not real cheese!”

“I know, but I like it anyway.” Anyway, that’s how we made it to the Mariner for nachos with real cheese. I like cheese.

We finished up the evening with a moonlight hike around the local ski trail running along Lake Fanny Hooe. We ended up on Lake Fanny Hooe. It’s was a pretty cool experience. If I had a camera I knew how to use, I would’ve gotten some pretty nifty moon shots. Ah, well, the moon will be full, again.

I think Amanda liked the Triple Header, as she called it. I hope we do it again. It felt really good to get out and do so many wintertime activities around the Harbor in one day.

See Amanda’s account, The Energizer Snow Bunnies.