#upper peninsula

[thedruidsforest]

Backpacking in the Porcupine Mountains Michigan's UP, September 2024

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[vintagecamping]

Some hunter's pose outside their cabin in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan

1980

[foolofamel]

O Kun-de-Kun Falls

[petite-ursus]

"Up North."

(Mostly the Porcupine Mountains, Michigan.)

[route22ny]

The Star Motel on US Route 2 near Manistique, Michigan as seen last year. A little further west it's possible to look back at the neon of the Colonial Motel with the Star's neon also in view. A sight evoking a bygone era for sure.

[jmpphoto]

Grand Island Sunset by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Grand Island Sunset Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Michigan As the sun dips toward the horizon, the sky erupts in a breathtaking display of fiery oranges. Perched high above Lake Superior in Michigan’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, this iconic overlook offers an unforgettable view of the shimmering waters below, where the fading daylight dances across the waves.

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

Would you consider sharing the severance toledo war alternate history evidence?

The Toledo War (1835-1836) was a minor skirmish between civilian militias on the Michigan/Ohio boarder over which state had land rights to the port city of Toledo. It ended with Ohio “winning” and getting claim to Toledo, but as consolation Michigan was given its Upper Peninsula (UP). The UP was freezing, wooded, isolated by two Great Lakes, and basically seen as worthless. But that changed when MASSIVE mineral deposits (mainly copper and iron) were discovered there in the 1840’s. A mining boom followed, and the UP became the country’s largest supplier of metals by the 1860’s. UP copper and iron generated more wealth than the entire California gold rush. However, the mines started to dry up after the 1920’s, and Michigan’s economic center shifted to Detroit manufacturing in the 1930’s and 40’s thanks to Henry Ford.

Severance takes place in a fictional state (PE) that is freezing, wooded, isolated by large bodies of water, and within reasonable driving distance of Milwaukee Wisconsin. Mark W. said he canceled a timeshare in Grand Rapids, Michigan to work there. Cobel’s hometown is an abandoned industrial port city with what seem to be old mines out back. Dr Mauer whistles “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, a song about a disaster on Lake Superior. There’s enough circumstantial evidence there for me to say the UP is a likely enough location for PE geographically.

So let’s imagine a hypothetical version of the Toledo war which ended with Michigan getting Toledo and the UP becoming its own state (PE) in 1836. Kier Eagan was born in 1841 according to the wiki, so he’d be a child right at the start of the mining boom. Without direct ties to Michigan and Detroit, we can imagine PE’s economy developing differently, with more manufacturing done where the metals are already extracted. And Michigan would never have its early economic boom, changing the landscape that would let Henry Ford rise to power and Detroit manufacturing to dominate.

So let’s say Kier establishes his manufacturing/metallurgy businesses in PE through the mid to late 1800’s copper boom, and when the mines start drying up after the 1920’s, Lumon shifts their location around, establishing the current HQ on top of old copper and iron mines for access to underground caverns to build the severed floor within (same as Aperture in the portal franchise), and focuses on their salves and medicine. Industry flocks to PE instead of Detroit, Kier becomes the face of American business instead of Ford, and the rest rolls naturally from that. Let’s say Houghton got named Ganz for some reason and Michigan Tech was Ganz College, and you’ve even got Mark and Gemma’s hometown, since that school was founded in the 1880’s for metallurgy and mining engineering anyways.

As completely pointless theories that don’t matter go, I think there’s real evidence for it.

[chainmaillecurse]

somewhere between chicago and the upper peninsula

[wandering-jana]

Lake Michigan

Manistique, Michigan

Aug. 2020

[porterdavis]

I doubt more than 3 out of ten Americans could identify the UP.

[shutterandsentence]

Into the Woods

Photo: Mackinac Island, Michigan

[thedruidsforest]

Presque Isle, Michigan September 2024

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[foolofamel]

Amanitas

[johnschneiderblog]

The four-legged kind

After decades of denial, the Michigan Natural Resources folks have officially acknowledged what anybody with half an interest in the state’s wildlife already knew: Cougars live, work and breed in Michigan’s forests.

Confronted with irrefutable photographic evidence, state wildlife biologists this week confirmed the discovery of two cougars cubs in Ontonagon County, in the western Upper Peninsula.

The cubs - the first to be found in the wild here in 100 years - are proof that cougars aren’t just passing through the state; they’re actually breeding here.

Cougars are native to Michigan, but were hunted to extinction. Of the 132 cougar reports the DNR has verified in recent years, all were males, leading experts to believe they were just wandering through.

Cougars are also known as mountain lions, pumas, catamounts and panthers. A full-grown cougar can weigh between 110 and 220 pounds, and stand about 23 to 28 inches tall at the shoulder.

[odiggity]

Covered Roads

Keweenaw Peninsula - Upper Peninsula of Michigan