I moved out here, amidst trees and rolling hills, and suspected that it might be fookin' gorgeous in a legit daytime rates snowfall.
After two years I can finally report...
...CONFIRMED.
Holy balls is it gorgeous out.
Good lord - I just had to clear off my snowboard and the other spots I measure as a control so I could potentially measure new snow. It has been a LONG time since that was a consideration…
Genuinely one of my favorite places in the world - up that way. Summer of 2021 and 2022 did my vacation on Beaver Island (accessible by ferry or small plane) in Lake Michigan off coast from Charlevoix. Spent many years as a kid vacationing in the upper peninsula and also on an island near Mackinac called Bois Blanc (where my grandfather had a hunting cabin). Northern Michigan is my hit-the-lottery-and-buy-land-with-a-cabin dream...