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Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

11/28/2005 08:47:25 PM · #1

When: this Saturday at 2pm

Location: Marquette area - open for suggestions as to exactly where

Post if you can join us and have location suggestions

- Linda

scrum8

Canon EOS-50D

11/28/2005 08:50:41 PM · #2

I've lived in Michigan 20 years and still haven't made it to the U.P. Got as far as Mackinac Island one time. Maybe some day.

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

11/28/2005 08:51:48 PM · #3

scrum - you have no idea what you're missing....this is God's country! You must escape from the trolls and join us!

parrothead

Canon EOS-40D

11/28/2005 08:57:10 PM · #4

Damn I wanna come! A bit too far for me but I have always wanted to visit up there!

11/28/2005 09:01:00 PM · #5

Game!

Oh wait - I think I'm already in :)

Suggestion #1: Snowy cemetery (if it stops raining and starts snowing).

11/28/2005 09:12:58 PM · #6

alfresco - there just happens to be a really nice cemetery smack dab in the middle of Marquette - it's Park Cemetery on Third Street. The same one the moose was running loose in last summer. lol Snow is forecast for the rest of the week too.

Message edited by author 2005-11-28 21:13:26.

Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

11/28/2005 09:17:38 PM · #7

Perfect!!!!

Watch out snowy, moose-on-the-loose, citybound cemetery!

Unless there are other ideas?

btw-
Anyone planning on flying into Mqt for the gtg please remember that the snow on the runway is not as bad as it looks, it's there to cushion the plane. :p

Message edited by author 2005-11-28 21:24:57.

Ombra_foto

Olympus E-300 EVOLT

11/28/2005 09:20:28 PM · #8

I haven't managed to get up north for the last 35... and I've been living in MI for the last 5 years...
One of these days.............

11/28/2005 10:17:13 PM · #9

Originally posted by Ombra_foto:

I haven't managed to get up north for the last 35... and I've been living in MI for the last 5 years...
One of these days.............

well, Saturday is one of those days...we expect you'll be at the cemetery at 2pm sharp

Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

11/28/2005 11:58:20 PM · #10

Ombra_foto

Olympus E-300 EVOLT

11/29/2005 12:05:30 AM · #11

Originally posted by ShutterPug:

Originally posted by Ombra_foto:
I haven't managed to get up north for the last 35... and I've been living in MI for the last 5 years...
One of these days.............

well, Saturday is one of those days...we expect you'll be at the cemetery at 2pm sharp

LOL... Nothing I'd like better, but that's a LONG way up from close to Detroit! Have to pass this time..

TooCool

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/29/2005 12:12:53 AM · #12

If ya hold it down here by Lansing, I'm game! ;-) Michiganders rule, eh?

HBunch

HP PhotoSmart 315

11/29/2005 03:16:17 AM · #13

I think that's a good 8 hours or so away from me, and I'm in Michigan. lol. Hit me up for the next Kalamazoo GTG though. lmao

11/29/2005 08:16:04 AM · #14

If you hit 75 right you can make the bridge in 4 hours tops. After that it's only 3 hours to Marquette.

7 hour trip to visit a cemetery in the UP? Come on, come on!!! Now that sounds like fun!

Of course the Seney stretch will be a whiteout if the weatherblunderer is correct, he, however, has yet to be correct.

Wisconsinites are welcome as well!! Only a few hours from Green Bay!
Minnesotanonians? Only 6-7 hours away.
Chicago? Only 7 hours!
Canada? Come on, eh? Only 3 hours from the Sault. Only 60 miles from Thunder Bay (as the boat goes).

Hmmmm ... Little Known Fact #273: "U.P. is in the middle of everywhere, yet the middle of nowhere."

11/29/2005 08:16:23 AM · #15

Edit out the double post ... quick fingers mcjp

Message edited by author 2005-11-29 08:17:42.

11/29/2005 12:07:32 PM · #16

Originally posted by alfresco:

Hmmmm ... Little Known Fact #273: "U.P. is in the middle of everywhere, yet the middle of nowhere."

I'd have to say I agree with that fact alfresco

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

11/29/2005 12:17:32 PM · #17

alfresco - and anyone else who is coming to the GTG.....the Park Cemetery is on 7th street - not third! I typed the wrong street and would hate to have folks get lost in the huge Marquette metropolis. :p

JP - just drive east on US41, and veer left onto Washington (business section) and continue to Third street and turn left. The cemetery is just up the top of the hill.

- Linda

ArpeggioAngel

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

11/29/2005 01:14:32 PM · #18

US 41? I have that all the way down here in Florida! How long ya think? 36hours maybe?
Actually, when I lived in Cleveland I had an aunt and uncle in Escanaba so I drove up to the UP a few times. Wish I was still up there so I could join you all!

11/29/2005 09:33:11 PM · #19

Originally posted by ArpeggioAngel:

41 ends at Miami Beach - I was there this summer, and two days later I was in Copper Harbor where 41 starts.

[Copper Harbor to Miami drive times]
If you're using yahoo maps you won't use 41 the entire trip and it'll only take 29.5 hours!

mapquest
will take 30.5 hours

google
will take 37 hours, don't use their directions.

Uhhhmmmm ... evening bump for remaining yoopers!

11/30/2005 01:11:07 PM · #20

Wednesday bump ...

Come one, come all!