Exploring The Majestic North Woods Of Wisconsin & Michigan: Epic Overlanding Adventure!

[@OwenReardon-x4s]

Those webs are most likey gypsy moths.

[@captseamus]

Those gypsy moths hatch caterpillars will strip a tree of its leaves totally in about 3 weeks after they hatch. Causes extreme stress to the trees especially under drought times

[@markvanvoorst300]

Quality time with a spouse comes in many forms. Really enjoyed the adventure and appreciate the commentary along the way. Keep it up.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Appreciate it man. It was not my normal type of video that's for sure. It doesn't seem many people wanted to watch it so I'm glad those that did choose to watch it enjoyed it!

[@Morg1320]

"I'm about to have my own logging operation." HAHAHA

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@Morg1320 I’ve waited almost a full year for someone to finally mention that🤣

[@dreeksol1]

If it makes you feel better, there is no fire tower down that road. Just a trail to the top of a hill where there used to be one.

[@FlawedOffroad]

If nothing else it solves my curiosity a bit. I still plan on going back though!

[@deepnorth9544]

@@FlawedOffroadall the fire towers are marked on onx you can find them on the map and mark them. Only a few fire towers actually still stand in Wisconsin that are accessible to the public. It still cool to find the old bases.

[@_JP18]

Awesome video!! Really enjoyed watching.

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@_JP18 thanks it was fun to make. I’ve got another one in the works now

[@littlehozer]

Note - A lot of trails like Bill Nichols Trail is part of Michigans ORV trail system and need purchase ORV Trail pass, about $35 total. Unless you are on a named national forest road than normal plates on your vehicle you are ok.

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@littlehozer I discovered that after the fact 🙃 they don’t make it very clear for out of state folks but I know now

[@nutz13_]

thank you for posting this!!! my 89 yj is currently waiting to fix the timing chain so this gave me some of the escape i so desperately need. so thankful for your content rn keep uo the great work!! (bc canada checking in)

[@FlawedOffroad]

Hopefully you got that handled by now!

[@TheoneDragon51]

Looks like y'all had a good time.

[@DaddyJeepGarage]

Nice video Dan. I know it isn't typical for you, but it came out great.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Thank you Rob. You are definitely right there it’s a little outside of my wheelhouse😂

[@jamestremethick5277]

I lived in iowa for years, now i live in the upper peninsula. You should make the move, unlimited offroad opportunity, and always in the 70's, theres leprechauns and unicorns always prancing around, its magical. Oh and honestly the winters in Iowa were worse than what I've seen up here. Winters are longer, but milder here.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Realistically I cant move till our kids launch into their adult lives, youngest is 13 so it'll be awhile. We each have 2 kids from previous marriages so theres ex's involved, too much drama lol

[@riddindirtyoff-roadclub901]

This entire trail system you did we also did on ATV's starting from Green Bay Wisconsin and made our way to Copper Harbor.

[@FlawedOffroad]

The whole time I was out there I kept wishing we had our quads with us. Mines an old unreliable 96 yamaha kodiak 400 and she has a 2021 Honda recon 250. Thanks for stopping in

[@robertfox4524]

I'm only an hour east of Dubuque. Let me know if you ever want an extra rig along on an adventure.

[@FlawedOffroad]

I dont currently have anything on the schedule, however this summer I plan on making my way up to Iron Range, and maybe another UP trip

[@randyknutson6150]

You had me at the Spotted Cow Dude!!! Gotta love living in Wisconsin! Great Video!

[@FlawedOffroad]

I’ve been known to make the 90 minute drive just for some spotted cow lol

[@randyknutson6150]

@@FlawedOffroad fortunately, I can walk a block down to Louie’s and grab some! Cheers 🍻

[@RORAdventures]

Love Guttenburg, will be there in a couple weeks.

[@ben67jeepster]

Lake Superior is definitely impressive, I live at the other end in Duluth MN. I'm glad you guys got your dirt theropy 👍

[@FlawedOffroad]

I have been out to a lighthouse there when I was a kid, the walkway was giant broken rocks for a few hundred yards is all I remember. Might have been on the WI side

[@GaryChastain]

Great video, we ran the same trails from Crandon to copper harbor as you did. We ran into a bunch of those yellow gates and big tall dirt berms on the trails. In town they told us the loggers put them up for safety for the equipment

[@FlawedOffroad]

I could have easily gone around it but I try to follow the rules most of the time. Thanks for checkin out the video

[@jeffcouturier]

Fantastic video, thank you for this. Going to plan a trip on this trail with my sons this summer!

[@FlawedOffroad]

Thanks! Im sure you will have a great time! Take some extra time to explore a little more than we did

[@EF9jdmhatch]

There is not a fire tower on that road anymore, I was excited about it too but all that’s left is the cement block foundation where the tower was bolted to

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@EF9jdmhatch yeah I have since figured that out, but I did find a fire tower pretty close to there last weekend when I was up that way

[@pocketrockets691]

A lot of the trails around Copper Harbor go through private property. Some of the landowners have closed off the trail going through their property the last couple of years due to people not staying on the trail and trashing the property. The trails on onX haven't been updated to reflect this yet

[@FlawedOffroad]

That one I was on with the gate is clearly marked elsewhere as being only for atvs etc but whoever added the route to onx kind of went the wrong way(compared to the original track posted)

[@normadycuspennycuff2890]

Loved this! I live in Eagle River WI and I have to say the winters tend to be shorter the closer to the lake or warmer the further south you go. I’m in the snow belt, a term I’d never heard before moving here. We are still having a lot of friction between snowmobiles and property owners so I’m not sure how a map could stay accurate from season to season. (We also had a higher number than normal of snowmobiler deaths this past winter.) Can’t wait to see your other videos!

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@normadycuspennycuff2890 the majority of my videos are working on the vehicles, I don’t get out on enough adventures. But I was up there in that area again last weekend so there will be another video coming soon

[@gregl3580]

Nice video you two. It looked like quite the adventure.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Yeah it was a lot of fun for a last minute unplanned trip. So anxious to get out again! I recently picked up a cheap overland trailer with a tent(can be seen in my newest vid)

[@jr_jeep4470]

He really enjoyed your video, and I’m a guy attends to be prepared but impromptu good a lot of times. Yeah and Northern Wisconsin Michigan late August. You will see the colors changing. I was going up the northern Wisconsin many years fishing and they contend to be that way, so enjoyed the content thank you

[@JeepsLimited]

Good video. I'm running this trail this summer and I'm super excited.

[@FlawedOffroad]

I’d recommend not following the onX route yet as it’s not fixed yet. There is a gpx online that has correct route. And give yourself extra time to meander. I did a little bit but once my deadline started looming we had to jet.

[@JeepsLimited]

@FlawedOffroad I already knew about the bill Nicolas trail and plan on following that. Unfortunately I only have 4 days total so we will be hitting as much as we can in that time.

[@JeepsLimited]

​@FlawedOffroad did you get michigan orv trail stickers to run this trail?

[@elementkx]

that was fun.

[@TheFriskyClicker]

Great video, those are tent caterpillar moths. Super common all over Wisconsin leafy areas.

[@FlawedOffroad]

I’ve had people give me like six different answers on what they are lol either way I enjoy looking at the giant webs they weave

[@TheFriskyClicker]

@@FlawedOffroad Ha yeah, i saw all of em and figured I'd add mine to the group easily can google and see that is what they are with the correct name :D Should have been around here 5 years ago, the tree tops looked like cotton candy the population was so high around the wisconsin dells area at least. If we had spiders that made those, I wouldn't be in this state hahahaha. Either way, cheers and great adventures!

[@zenofthemoment]

The ‘spider webs’ are silk worms. Tiny caterpillars.

[@year1camaro]

You gotta try to ditch the technology. Enjoy the present and dont worry if your lost. Use a compass only and get lost. When you ready to head home then we use technology. Something about the unknown and the surprises make it better.

[@FlawedOffroad]

That’s the only way I’ve ever done it in the past. This was the first time I ever used the mapping software lol

[@danweiss1371]

Just watching your video. I just got to say I love the pudding, fab shop shirt. It’s one of the KZbin channels me and Wife both like watching.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Puddin is hilarious. I haven’t watched very much lately since he started posting two hour videos though I don’t really have that much time on my hands

[@caifan444]

Great video man enjoyed it very much 👍

[@FlawedOffroad]

Thanks, it was different from my usual content I’m glad ya like it

[@Tubbz1256]

Let me know when ya come back you here qnd ill bring ya around, im from Illinois and I moved up to Skanee, L'Anse area mich. I off road and camp in back woods also.

[@lakemi4665]

I just drove from big bay to MT ARVON not a sole around, it was great !

[@alanharvey1499]

OMG I'm busting a gut. May flies are harmless but messy and come from the river. The worm's are bag worms. Looks like it was a great adventure.

[@FlawedOffroad]

It was, Im so ready to get back out for another one!

[@alanharvey1499]

@@FlawedOffroad I see your near QC I'm in CR. I'll try to find you at Moore.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Yeah Just outside D-port. Sounds great, I'll be in the JK and not my YJ. Not sure where Im camping yet, its kind of pricy for the onsite camping haha@@alanharvey1499

[@alanharvey1499]

@@FlawedOffroad ya the on site camping is pricy. There's a county park just to the north that has potential. Depending on who comes with me if I'm camping or hotel. At the moment it looks like camping. I use a hammock for that so I have concerns about trees at the fairgrounds.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Theres also camping at smorr but its a little ways away. theres a koa really close but thats pricy too@@alanharvey1499

[@motoboggin2619]

beautiful video

[@FlawedOffroad]

Thanks!

[@Strider1954]

OMG man, had you gone just a little further past that former rocket range you would have found a wonderful free camp area right on Lake Superior! Not far from that the road ends but the view of the hills there is unbeatable. Guess you'll just have to go back now? Anyway, glad you enjoyed that area, it's some of the best in the U.P.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Would that be the fork in the road right before the range?

[@FlawedOffroad]

i recall a fork, left was rocket range, right was high rock bay. the thing was, we were 12 or so hours from home and I had to make at least some ground up to meet a deadline the next day so the exploration had to come to an end. Thanks for checkin out the video, this one did not resonate very well with my regular viewers lol

[@Strider1954]

@@FlawedOffroad If you followed the road you were on the next left turn is the camping area. The road continues on a bit further south but dead ends; the view there is worth the time. High Rock Bay road is the first left after leaving US41. I gathered time was up for you, if you go back up that way check it out

[@wrm3016]

Hey Dan, got a link for that coffee press? ☕☕☕ Very cool!

[@FlawedOffroad]

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[@mattmacpherson1033]

Buena vista, WI what a view.

[@FlawedOffroad]

I dont think I went through that area

[@mattmacpherson1033]

@@FlawedOffroad it is right off the river road near Alma, WI but up on the bluffs. The view in your video sure looked like it.

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@mattmacpherson1033 I was on the river road from prarie du chein to lacrosse then we went east

[@riddindirtyoff-roadclub901]

Lake Ste Kathryn, we've stayed there before on our overlanding trips. You guys picked a nice area to ride through. We do a lot of ATV Overlanding trips. Check us out when you get a chance. I've subscribed to you also.

[@ericheil698]

What are the GPS cords for this trail/trip?

[@FlawedOffroad]

www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1UHxgzvWE_7Qs2GUNmO5_CDapXwfBK4Mb&g_ep=CAESBzExLjUzLjQYAEICVVM%3D&shorturl=1&ll=46.48117794962272%2C-88.40490239609376&z=8

[@19cougar87]

All that time in the U.P. on the lake superior shore and you didn't look for yooperlites!?!?

[@FlawedOffroad]

That would require me to have ever heard of whatever that is 😅

[@19cougar87]

@FlawedOffroad google them. They're rocks that can only be found up there and when you shine a uv light over them they glow

[@19cougar87]

@FlawedOffroad They're rocks only found on the U.P. Lake superior shores that glow under UV light. Google them, they're awesome and lots of ppl go looking for them

[@19cougar87]

@@FlawedOffroad they're rocks only found on the U.P. shorelines of Lake Superior that glow under blacklight. Google them because they're pretty cool

[@dehansen1960]

Those are gypsy month larva.

[@captseamus]

April-May the "May Flies" will eat you alive!! SERIOUSLY!! The flies will bite the hell out of you, you will be their "Bait Ball"

[@carlicehouse]

if you were up in late August/September, the bugs go waaaay down that time of year.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Guess we got lucky. This year if I go up again I want to see fall colors so it’ll be a month later

[@flishstycks]

The colors changing that early is actually sick trees. I forget the name of the disease but it's odd.

[@FlawedOffroad]

Interesting, I just figured it was different species that start early. Down here in Iowa some start early some late but never middle of august! Hope you enjoyed

[@flishstycks]

@FlawedOffroad I was up there around August about two years ago and thought the same. We were doing a 5 day kayaking trip so we had a while Ina van with a local. He was a wealth of knowledge.

[@FlawedOffroad]

@@flishstycks the locals I ran into in that area were all super cool people

[@captseamus]

Eastern Oak Wilt is hitting in some places in Lower Michigan. It attacks the tree early spring and is totally DOA by October. No leaves, no life of any kind in the tree trunk. Completely dead. I lost all my oaks trees in four years. If the oak tree shows a few leaves and branches dying in Late June or early July its dying!

[@normadycuspennycuff2890]

In fairness, we do have color change in August quite often depending on weather. I love driving south even a half hour and driving “out” of one season and into another. 😊