Exploring the Hidden Island Beaches off Michigan's Coast

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On this episode, we travel to North Manitou Island for a 3 day backpacking trip. North Manitou Island is an island in Lake Michigan that can only be reached by taking a ferry. Due to the weather, our arrival on the island was delayed by a day. We took that opportunity to explore the sand dunes of Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. We took the main dune trail all the way to Lake Michigan.
Once we were actually on the island, we started at the Village Area and headed south. We passed the school, the South Cherry Orchard, and then headed down to Old Stormer Dock. We then passed the cemetary before making it to the old home of Bourniques. After that we headed west towards Stormer Place. We made a quick stop at Fat Annie's, but didn't see anything of note, so we continued on and camped on the west shore of the island.
The next day we headed north and checked out Swenson's Barn and explored the Crescent Dock area. Since we had one less day than planned, we decided to take the Centerline Trail east across the island before camping on the eastern shore.
Finally, we hiked out and took the ferry home.
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-SCENE SELECTION-
00:00 Teaser
00:53 Theme Song
01:20 After Intro
02:41 Hotel Archives & Pizza
03:44 DAY ONE - Unfortunate News
05:18 Dune Climb
09:41 Dune Vista and Plants
11:06 Verdant and Turquoise
13:49 Back Inland
15:28 Nostalgic Reflections
17:11 Scenic Drive & Huge Sand Dune
18:30 Decision-making
19:12 Hotel Archives Part 2
19:59 DAY TWO
20:58 Ferry Ride
24:15 Disembarking & Map Sequence
24:47 First Hike
28:20 Historic School Site
30:42 Familiar Meadow
31:54 Plants and Mushrooms
34:12 Forest Hiking
35:59 Junction Lunch
37:07 Cemetery and Bournique's
41:32 Heading Out
42:05 Car Search
44:36 Hiking to Fat Annie's
47:26 Arriving at the Coast
48:57 Setting up Camp
49:55 Evening Sunset
51:53 Dinner
53:22 Philosotalking
55:59 DAY THREE - Morning Swim
57:44 Morning Sunlight and Coffee
1:01:26 Wide Meadow
1:04:53 Flowers and Wildlife in Paradise
1:09:50 Large Boulders & Bear Tooth Fungus
1:11:27 Swenson's Barn
1:14:31 Beach near Crescent Dock
1:17:48 Back to Junction & Centerline Trail
1:20:52 Amazing Campsite
1:23:56 Eating
1:25:10 Lakeshore at Dusk
1:27:21 Bedtime
1:28:05 DAY FOUR
1:30:17 Packing up & Coffee
1:31:19 Final Hike Out
1:33:06 Credits
1:35:21 Post-Hike Meal
1:38:41 Call to Action
1:39:07 Patreon Shoutouts
1:43:29 Secret Planning
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All of the musical compositions or arrangements and footage in this video are original, and were composed, recorded, and captured by Andrew Lin, Bryan Lin, Robby Huang, and Thomas Sinard
Featuring drums by Nate Laguzza
Original content and music is copyright Adventure Archives (c) 2021

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@@joelwilliamson2100 Manistee river trail is the most popular in lower peninsula. Jordan river trail, and nordhouse dunes are pretty good too. The upper peninsula has better trails though. Most people would say pictured rocks national Lakeshore is the best, but isle royale is considered to be among the best backpacking areas in the state by those who have the opportunity to visit. Otherwise porcupine mountains are also very popular. I can't honestly choose a favorite though. I really like nordhouse but also prefer longer hikes. Manistee river trail is almost perfect but it's getting too popular. Haven't done Jordan river pathway but I live really close to it so I suppose that I'll do that one next.

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This is definitely one of my favorite AA episodes from start to finish. What a bonus surprise of Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes which is one of my favorite places on earth! I visited SBSD for the first time when I was 13 and it changed my life forever. North Manitou Island also looks like a treasure. All the beautiful camera shots and music fit so well together. Oh - the music and bird sloosh at 11:54!! @andrew Love the mushroom daddy t-shirt LOL. You guys have out done yourselves. :)

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The return to Manitou! You guys captured the landscapes and sky so well! Your marriage of cinematography and music has become so good! The shout-outs were once again hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣 Well done guys 👏👏👏 Robio Huang is Giorgio Tsoukalos, the hair! 🤣🤣🤣👍

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This island has little of everything that I could imagine on my dream camping! Thank you Andrew, Brian and Robby for taking us on such an adventure. Those sunset and sunrise are the best ones I have seen. I could just watch them all day long! You guys are indeed lucky to get exposed to this kind of nature beauty as kids. As we can all can see, it has served you all well!! Wishing you the bestest!!!! Andrew I didn’t get to tell this yet, my son have been watching you since he was 6. Your vidoes have been our favorite activity to watch on weekends since the first lock down started. Your channel has reached out to so many people, many more than you can imagine! You talked about memories and how visiting this island brought so many memories. We are making memories off your experiences and memories too! :) I can just write on and on but my words wouldn’t not be enough:) So in the end will just say, thank you for doing what all you guys do! Such a bummer Thomas couldn’t join you guys. Clearly you missed him on trip.

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Mushroom Daddy... love the T-shirt. I was at North Manitou in 2018. Love seeing the island.

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Thank you guys for taking us along. Love your adventures. Sadness in a bowl, cracked me up.

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Great! Reminds me of trips I made by kayak to the island . So idyllic, pleased to be reminded!

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Shout-out to Midland! Loved this one, made me nostalgic for when my brother and I went to North Manitou. Excited for the next 😁

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You guys always come through with great, peaceful content and now I am inspired to go back to Michigan to do this hike. I grew up in Kalamazoo but have hardly hiked in Michigan..

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Such a magical sunrise!

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Wow the lake was beautiful.

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My favorite episode. Thank you guys

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Always enjoy your night sky footage!

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Love it. Y'all make awesome videos. Got to see it early. Wow!!😍🌅🌄🗻🏞️🏕️ Thank you!

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loved every minute of this video. Thanks for sharing. Blessings, Teri Hope

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Another great video! Thanks so much!

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Always good. keep on keeping on.

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I hiked N Manitou 3 years ago. Fabulous memories!!

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I backpacked South Manitou with my class in High School 10 years ago. Currently planning a trip to North Manitou next year. Its been a dream trip for me and I cannot wait. My first step into backpacking as an adult

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The music that you guys played when the sun rises up was glorious! I teared up a bit.

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This is one of my favs. Have not been to the dunes since I was very young. I will for sure make my way there next summer. That sunset was beautiful. Thank you.