Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Cliff at his post this morning. I have put the list together of all the guesses that have come in. There were more May guesses than ever before. If it goes that long 2 years in a row that would be amazing to see. Last year they were ice fishing for the fishing opener in May and the year... Read more

Excerpt: Turning on Restawhile today Mack walked in with me and wanted to go out the porch door. I was not sure why he wanted to go out the porch door but I let him out. He seemed confused as to where he was to go once I let him out. Snow everywhere and no easy way seen through the... Read more

Excerpt: I had some really neat pictures shared with me from Nichole and Stephen in Birchwood. They spent the week enjoying returning to the woods and the area after not being in the Northwoods in a long time. Nichole caught some awesome pictures of the deer going out onto the lake. Craig's two cabins The Chateau and Blackwood are in... Read more

Excerpt: We have been gone this week on a couple of small spring break trips and Gail and Char came up to keep an eye on the resort and Mack. Gail and Char learned a few things this week about being up in March 1. Dan's Fudge closes 2. Blink Bonnies has no wait for a table on a Wednesday... Read more

Excerpt: You could feel the warmth coming from the sun today. Melting is definitely taking place. The canoe is starting to peek out of its winter cave Cliff at his post this morning. Remember to get your guesses in by the 20th as to when he will sink Feeling the warmth Still just a piece of metal sticking up through... Read more

Excerpt: I have spotted some warmer weather for a couple of days Sunday and Monday. It is time to tap some trees. This is the latest we have ever held off to tap trees. It has simply been to cold to justify plowing through waist deep snow to tap some trees. The trees will not run until the temps go... Read more

Excerpt: We have delayed starting Ice Out 2014 for a week due to the just plain cold temps. It did not seem fair to drag Cliff out of the basement at - 20. Cliff was more than happy to hang in the basement another week. But the time has come. Time to head to the lake for the big plunge... Read more

Excerpt: I had these pictures shared with me by Taylor Nyarangi. Taylor and her friends drove all the way from Milwaukee last weekend to see the Ice Caves along Lake Superior. I know I have shared a few groups of these pictures, but they are all so amazing. The ice caves are still open and should be good to see... Read more

Excerpt: I found this little treasure on Ebay last week. This post card is one of the oldest I have found from my grandparents. From the post mark was mailed in 1947. They bought the resort in 1946 so I believe this is one of the first postcards of Black's Cliff. We did not have it in our archives. Someone... Read more

Excerpt: With all the snow we have received it is time to shovel a few more roofs. Eagles Nest was on the list today. The first challenge was to trudge through waist deep snow to get to the cabin. We do not keep it plowed out in the winter so it was a slow trudge through the snow with shovels... Read more

Excerpt: Plowing out after the big snow we got the truck stuck. How to get the truck out of a snowbank? Grab the handy dandy come a long (spelling is for you Paul). Even an F 250 has trouble at times. The propane truck was in the driveway. We could wait no longer for a fill. Propane prices are still... Read more

Excerpt: Yep we got more snow... We felt buried before the snow came, now there is no question there is a lot of snow out there This is the bird bath I pictured the other day. It is finally completely buried Here is Ted's picture. Sorry Ted I am still not trudging through the snow to find the bear. I... Read more