I went to pictured rocks in upper Michigan. First time backpacking,

>>1078421
start hiking at 8-9am and stop hiking at around 4-5. Eat, shoot the shit, and then fall asleep.

>>1078421
Backpacking 7 miles is something I'd only do on an extremely taxing, mountainous day. If you're on flat ground (I'm assuming it was flat because midwest) you should plan on 10-15 miles a day, easily. It was probably a good idea to be conservative for your first backpacking trip, however.

Basically I just chill and read. After hiking all day you'll usually be so tired you'll pass out almost immediately after it gets dark.

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>>1078426
It was cliffy the 3rd day, 7 miles felt plenty. We ended up reaching camp at 3 every day. First 2 days were definitely very light, but my father is 50+ and out of shape. It's no mountain, but it's pretty up and down

>>1078421
Play with my dog, fagenabler.

>>1078421
you kinda just answered your own question OP, just come up with shit and do it. i usually smoke a bowl cook some food and then read a book or gaze at the sky while listening to god is an astronaut on my portable speaker

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>>1078421
>>1078444
>UP anons

nice

>>1078421
Toledo, OH here. I want to make a trip to the UP and the pictured rocks were at the top of my list. Any thoughts/advice/recommendations for hiking in the area?

>>1078421
>Ended up swimming, reading, and listening to Dune
sounds perfect desu!
could have done some fishing if you had gear with you.

>>1078481
Hogs back and Sugarloaf if you're in the marquette area, Theres some neat stuff up in copper country. Google some trails because there are a fucking shit ton

aside from marquette i'd stay away from any other town though, the white trash gets pretty bad up here

>>1078478
I live in gr

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>>1078481
Munising to chapel is beautiful, can do easily in 3 days. After that, it's flat. But, you're never more than 300 yards from the lake and mostly you're about 100 yards away. Beach access almost the whole way. Coves was a really cool site but we didnt stay. There were toilets at every site, but only fire pits at a few

>>1078492
>the white trash gets pretty bad up here
for a non American, what does that mean?

>>1078509
People who live in the middle of nowhere in cheap trailers and houses. Basically the white version of ghettos

>>1078509
meth-heads, redneck inbreds, poor people, cabin fever old people who live alone in the middle of the woods and shoot on sight. Shit gets sketchy in places where no one lives

>>1078509
It means that he looks down on white tradesmen and laborers who enjoy guns and vehicles and fun because he has to hang with pozzed up globohomo cosmopolitans

>>1078519
Also true

>>1078481
>advice for Toledo?
Yea. Go to New York

>>1078710
What about for a Chicagofag?

>>1078421
>did 7 miles a day
Shit nigger I do this with the dog before work, was it bra trouble that was holding you back ?

>>1078763
I think we're fucked, dude. You can come set up your tent in my yard :/

>>1078763
Minnesota?
>t. Grand Haven

Munising and pictured rocks are beautiful. How were the bugs OP? I'm taking some friends to grand island next week.

>>1078481
Make sure you stop in the Marquette area!
Hogsback Mountain and Dead River Falls are two excellent excursions for killing a few hours!

>>1078791
Bugs have pretty much died out for the season. I'm 30 minutes away from PR and I've had no issues for the past few weeks.

>>1078795
Hi Marquette anon.

>>1078421
Went to pictured rocks, explored a little but didn't go too far from the camps