Exactly 11 years ago the Pasty Cam featured a Shoebox Memory about the 1944 crash of a B-17 near Lake of the Clouds. More information has appeared on the web since then, including this video from the protected site, actually the staging area, not the point of impact. There are pictures from various blogs of hikers who have visited the site. A couple of interesting reads (though with some broken links and images): The RuckSack Photo Journal (search for "1944" halfway down the page), and the Lake Superior Region Blog. The Pasty Cam's ongoing 20th year circle-back of the previous 19 continues to be an enlightening experience.

Have a good week :o)

wxyz.com has a video of a firefighter trapped under the collapsed façade of the gas station on fire in Iron Mountain.

Pasty-cam family, anyone know the snow fall amount
for 2008-2009. I have a small snow thermometer
that I keep the amount of snow for each winter. 08
& 09 have faded.

DEAN; The snowfall for 2008-2009 was 217.00 inches

Oct,0.00
Nov. 17.00
Dec. 69.50
Jan. 84.50
Feb. 27.00
March 4.50
April 14.50
May. 0.00

Interesting...thanks for the trek.

DEAN; google Michigan tech snowfall records and there is a lot of stuff there. Hope it works for you and I hope I got it correct, 217 inches....;0)

Interesting video. I had no idea that this had
happened so I learned something again today.
Thanks for sharing!

Thank you mickill mouse(Ram4)

You are welcome, Dean.

I've always noticed the snowfall records kept by the Keweenaw County Road Commission web page are almost always substantially higher than the MTU records from the Houghton County Airport.

2008-9 shows 285 inches for the road commission. I assume this is what the "thermometer" (between Mohawk and Phoenix) is based on. The MTU airport value was 217.

MTU Snowfall Records

Keweenaw County Snowfall Records

The Keweenaw Road Commission webpage only goes back to 2006-7 but here are the side by side comparisons to the MTU Houghton County numbers. The Keweenaw numbers are an average of 38% higher and always higher except for one year. Leave it to the MTU engineers to claim an extra decimal point of precision. Maybe they use a laser instead of a yard stick.

Year --- MTU ---- KCRC
16-17 - 180.00 - 276
15-16 - 176.50 - 222
14-15 - 181.50 - 271.5
13-14 - 208.75 - 340.5
12-13 - 225.75 - 314
11-12 - 132.00 - 195
10-11 - 178.50 - 174.5
09-10 - 150.50 - 169.3
08-09 - 217.00 - 285
07-08 - 185.25 - 280.2
06-07 - 162.75 - 236

I almost forgot....Great history trip too.