Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: We have been scurrying all week and the place is finally ready for summer. The chairs are just waiting to be filled Steve and Troy were busy getting the diving board back on the raft. We gave it new wood and it needed a little finishing touch to fit on the platform The platform got a good scraping and... Read more

Excerpt: It is spring and time is short. I took a lot of pictures working the last few days. Painting to straightening docks from the ice damage. Big thank you to Chris and Amanda Moran who came up to help for 2 weeks. Enjoy the pictures This last picture makes me laugh. At the end of the day Troy was sitting... Read more

Excerpt: First of all anyone interested in the diving platform update. The three of us spent an hour scraping and getting the old paint off the metal frame. This frame was hand made back in the 50's and steal was bent in place Fresh coat of paint and looks shinny and new and not 65+ years old On to other... Read more

Excerpt: We have had some beautiful warm weather the last week. The lake is warming up First of all the most exciting news, we got approval from our insurance company to put our diving platform back on the raft. This platform was built by Maynard back in the 50's and was loved into the early 90's by everyone on the... Read more

Excerpt: You can't tell from Mack but it was an exciting day at the resort. Mack was much happier at the lake fishing for bluegills than hanging up top with all the noise from machines. Relax Mack it will all be over soon We were sadly loosing a bunch of old pines that were mature. Every storm that goes through... Read more

Excerpt: This picture was shared with me a couple of years ago by Stacy Borger. It just seems like a good spring picture for today. Great shot Stacy! We have a few chairs at our beach that are 70 years old or so. I have pictures of these chairs at the beach in the early 50's and I am not... Read more

Excerpt: We had ice out this weekend! Saturday the 5th was officially ice out on Lower Kaubashine I caught this muskrat making a home under the raft. The raft will be heading out to its usual spot soon and the muskrat will have to find a new home We did get some work done.... but it was so nice it... Read more

Excerpt: Grab your coffee and enjoy some pics of the melting ice on Lower Kaubashine Complete ice out is not far away Busy spring clean up is in full swing. The guys have started to drop all the wood they cut this winter around the resort as they clean up We have had a lone turkey stopping by each night... Read more

Excerpt: The lake is getting closer and closer to going out. I am not sure if it will make it completely by this weekend but it will be close There are ducks out in the mist in this picture but hard to see. The first ones to return for the spring We have been busy getting started on spring clean... Read more

Excerpt: Troy and I took off Sunday afternoon on a short car adventure to see some water falls with the spring melt. We left at 11 am so did not want to do an hour plus trip up to Hurley and Ironwood area. Instead we picked two water falls in the Mercer area 40 minutes from the resort. We stopped... Read more

Excerpt: We are slowly melting the lake. It is nice to see some open water for a change. We still have a ways to go but warm temps are in the forecast In the meantime while we wait for the snow to melt we have started painting. The ski shack at the lake got a fresh coat Mack was soaking... Read more

Excerpt: The snow is finally melting the last few days. We had a lot to melt so we still have a substantial amount on the ground. Enough to stop any ideas of spring clean up around the resort. Here is the walk way to the beach Here was our wood pile a week ago Here it is this morning Heading... Read more