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\u00a0Tens of thousands of Chicago Mack crews will know what this landmark is even if they\u2019ve never seen it look like this. \u00a0Check out this story of a recent hike \u2013 the first attempt in some 40 years \u2013 from Glen Arbor, MI to North Manitou Island.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On Thursday, March 6th, 2014, we attempted something that hasn\u2019t been done for 40 years: to hike the treacherous ice across the Manitou Passage to the islands 8 miles out.<\/p>\n In the 1970\u2019s, Bob\u2019s father and two brothers left the shore in Glen Arbor early one morning\u00a0to attempt the crossing. They were cut off by open water a mile from South Manitou. Their hike took so much longer than planned that Bob\u2019s mother called the Coast Guard in panic! Having heard his father and brother tell stories of the adventure, Bob has been waiting for his chance to hike to the Manitous for decades.<\/p>\n The winter of 2013-14 has been one of the most severe in living memory. It has seen temperatures plunging to -20\u00b0F, enormous amounts of snow,\u00a0polar vortices<\/a>, and fierce storms. The\u00a0near record-level ice coverage\u00a0on Lake Michigan<\/a>\u00a0has been a big part of the story, as have the amazing\u00a0ice caves along the Leelanau shoreline<\/a>. \u00a0All this cold weather and ice build-up allowed us to attempt such an adventurous (some would say foolhardy!) hike.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THIS POST IS FROM “SAILING ANARCHY” \u00a0Tens of thousands of Chicago Mack crews will know what this landmark is even if they\u2019ve never seen it look like this. \u00a0Check out this story of a recent hike \u2013 the first attempt in some 40 years \u2013 from Glen Arbor, MI … Continue reading WINTER ON THE GREAT LAKES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1951,483,309],"tags":[1973],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons","category-snow","category-weather","tag-great-lakes-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}