TR: In the land of bitey things.

"William Claspy" wrote in message
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On 5/31/06 12:36 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
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"William Claspy" wrote in message
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On 5/30/06 4:50 PM, in article ,
"Wolfgang"
wrote:
I presume that this is the same Silver I'm thinking of.

Yeah, it's the one in the area we're both familiar with.

We're usually
destined to remote points east down Skanee Road but I always slow the
car
as
we cross the Silver. Looks like mighty nice water.

Oddly, it looks better downstream than up. Well, not so odd for this
region......a number of others share this trait.

As I recall, where the Skanee Road crosses the Silver, it's pretty close
to
Huron Bay, no?

Hm.......

It appears that at least one of us is confused. The Silver I'm talking
about has its head about 9 miles northeast of Kenton. The closest it comes
to L'anse is where it crosses 38 about 11 miles to the west. I don't see a
Silver anywhere to the north and east of L'anse on my map. You sure you're
not thinking of the Slate? That crosses Skanee Road about 10 miles to the
northeast of L'anse and then empties into Huron Bay.

Is the "looks better" due to the ubiquitous falls, do you think?

Hard to say now that we seem to be looking at different streams.

The Silver where we first crossed it on Sunday near South Laird road
(roughly halfway from its source to the confluence with the Sturgeon) was
shallow and wide with a sandy bottom. At the hwy. 38 bridge we saw a higher
gradient with mixed cobble and gravel bottom.

We need to talk more about
what's down Skanee Road.

Well, among other things that haunt me, there are brook trout down the
Skanee Road, I'd wager on that. And something that looks like this,
probably hasn't changed in the last sixty years:

http://hrothgar.cwru.edu/huronriv2.jpg

Yeah, I remember that picture. That's what got us started in that direction
on Sunday. Unfortunately, we are easily distracted......we never got
anywhere near there. L'anse was the end of the road for us this time. I've
never yet been up there.

The late afternoon was better. On the way into L'Anse to get a bite to
eat

Tell me you ate at the Hilltop. Those cinnamon rolls, man oh man. And
pickled herring on the buffet...

We did indeed eat at the Hilltop......and I did have the pickled herring.

Lucky bastid! My grandmother used to have a Swedish saying about "sill
och
potatis", but I can't remember it. Maybe Roger can help out?

I hope so.....it means nothing to me.

However, none of us sampled the cinnamon rolls.....we were all too full
from
lunch. And, anyway, those things are scary. You could beat large
carnivorous bitey things to death with one of those.

I only bought one once and we split it four ways. Seriously.

Half a pound of cinnamon roll should be enough for just about anybody.

Wolfgang