Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Clear skies and snow in the trees. Looking up is amazing the last 2 days. More snow in the forecast for light snows New Years and www.johndee.com is hinting at more than a little on January 3rd. Right now we are booked for New Years. We have 4 cabins open starting on January 2nd and 2 more open on... Read more

Excerpt: 5 to 6 more inches of snow. Time to come up and play and enjoy the Northwoods. We have cabins still open all week call for details. Troy is cleaning off the rink today and starting to flood it over night so the ice will be smoother. Snowshoe trail is ready to be tramped on. Winter Park is open... Read more

Excerpt: Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We gathered our family for our annual Christmas Eve hockey game. With fog rolling in it quickly changed to our new favorite game Kubb A Merry Merry Christmas from the lake... Read more

Excerpt: Troy got a Christmas present this year, a snow blower. Every year we have hand shoveled the rink off and left shovels for guests to help keep it cleaned off. It was time for an upgrade. This is one happy guy with his snowblower Enjoying his peace and quiet out on the lake by himself New snow in the... Read more

Excerpt: Sunday 4pm the snow was starting to blow again. I experimented with taking some video below. I am new to video and uploading it. Let me know if it is not working for you reservations@blackscliff.com I think I will do more video once in awhile if everyone enjoys it IMG_6113 IMG_6114 IMG_6115... Read more

Excerpt: We are waiting for more snow to come in, it is supposed to start Sunday and snow on and off all week. I have heard many different snow total amounts and will wait to see what happens. Either way it will be a very white Christmas in the Northwoods this year. Time to come play in the snow. I... Read more

Excerpt: The birdhouse snow report. It snowed all day yesterday off and on. It is supposed to flurry a bit today as well. Next week looks great for snow lovers. Check out www.johndee.com for his snow report. I think it is going to be a great Christmas to New Years for playing in the snow. Winter Park ski area made... Read more

Excerpt: Very happy to report after rain yesterday we got snow! So far we got a fresh inch and a half or so. We are supposed to pick up another inch or 2 beyond that through tomorrow. It looks a lot more like Christmas around here Birchwood in the fresh snow I took this same picture yesterday in the fog... Read more

Excerpt: I headed out on the snowmobile lake entrance to take some pics of the frosty trees. Tom at Hilltop just marked the trail this week across the lake. A few sleds have crossed It was beautiful to look back at the trees covered in frost Truck was parked along the snowy road and time to head back off the... Read more

Excerpt: It was a frosty day. For those in the south starved for some pics of snow we have it still up north Kind of quiet the next week with folks getting ready for Christmas. The cabins are quiet but that will not last long.... Kaubashine and Shamrock this morning. I am hoping our warm up is not too bad... Read more

Excerpt: I get asked quite often, how much snow is there in the woods? We were out gathering boughs for our Christmas wreathes and there was enough for Troy to put his snow pants on and enough snow hanging on trees that he got a snow shower while gathering boughs. Loading up the truck with balsam and headed to Muskie... Read more

Excerpt: This picture is the front of the new 2015 Black's Cliff Calendar. I had to do it a little differently this year. For some reason my computer and Walgreens did not communicate well. After spending 6 months with customer service calls and reloads and frustration I gave up. This year I am using MixBook. I can share the calendar... Read more