http://www.townsandtrails.com Life and adventure in the Adirondacks Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.townsandtrails.com/michigan-road-trip-sleeping-bear-dunes-national-lakeshore/comment-page-1/#comment-673 Cascade Mountain and Porter Mountain, Adirondack Day Hike | Towns and Trails Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:34:53 +0000 http://www.townsandtrails.com/?page_id=1588#comment-673 [...] Near the Registration Box there is a sign asking hikers to carry a rock to the summit. These rocks are then used to help define trails and create boundaries on the peak so that alpine vegetation can recover. We kept our eye out and found an appropriately sized rock to put in our pack. I couldn’t help but think back to our recent visit to Lake Michigan, when we carried a pack full of Petoskey Stones up the Sleeping Bear Dunes. [...] [...] Near the Registration Box there is a sign asking hikers to carry a rock to the summit. These rocks are then used to help define trails and create boundaries on the peak so that alpine vegetation can recover. We kept our eye out and found an appropriately sized rock to put in our pack. I couldn’t help but think back to our recent visit to Lake Michigan, when we carried a pack full of Petoskey Stones up the Sleeping Bear Dunes. [...]

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