Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: Sunrise this morning between Bayview and Muskie as seen from my car on my Iphone. Getting a little lazy lately and I have not had my good Cannon along but the Iphone does ok. I hear the Iphone 4S has a better camera.... dreaming and I will keep dreaming til my contract runs out on the 4 View minus... Read more

Excerpt: Latest from the Weather Service. I say bring it on! I have heard about 5 0f 8 inches of snow. 4 Cabins left for the weekend give a call to come up and play, Birchwood, Wildflower, Shamrock and Red Pine. For someone that does not want to come up on Friday but wait til Saturday Bayview is open starting then... Read more

Excerpt: Temps in the mid 30's for a couple of days and the guys have abandoned helping me clean cabins for the woodshed. Steve has turned in his bathroom cleaning bucket for a chainsaw and looks much happier. Nothing like working in the woodshed with temps in the 30's and not huge piles of snow. The snow is doing ok... Read more

Excerpt: Nothing new to talk about today, we are cleaning up cabins from New Years and the snow conditions are good for the weekend, so time to head into the files from yester year. Millie in the snow by Bayview I love all the old cars that used to be at the resort. This is a picture of a car... Read more

Excerpt: Frist of all for anyone wondering how the snow is holding up with these warmer temps this week, it is doing fine. I took this picture of our front yard at 9am today Friday. It has gotten in the upper 30's Thursday and today it is supposed to do the same thing. We have enough snow that it has... Read more

Excerpt: We headed on a tubing adventure to Winter Park. Most folks locally buy a season skiing pas to Winter Park, our family is one of 2 that has purchased a season tubing pass. The boys love to go and after a week of Basketball, Swim Club and cleaning cabins a relaxing time spent tubing is more up our alley... Read more

Excerpt: I do believe there was quite a party over at Muskie Inn last night. I believed it rivaled a few of the Thompson parties. John Sr and Jr please note how to keep the drinks cool in the winter. It was a happy New Year at the Cliff and it SNOWED!! about 3 -4 inches and we have that... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful sunrise this morning. I was trying to get my contacts in at 7:15am after not wanting to get out of bed on a cold first day of school. Boys yell from the livingroom, mom get your camera the sunrise is great. I think this was revenge for me waking them up this morning, they know... Read more

Excerpt: My trip to get coffee in the morning. Chicken Little took one look at me with my coffee cup in my hand and headed the other way with his nose in the air. He knows coffee cup = car ride= terror I was thrilled this morning to have to get my scraper out and the snow was still coming... Read more

Excerpt: http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20111226/SPJ0101/112260408 Minocqua was given quite a Christmas gift this year. This will protect miles and miles of trails in the area and keep the integrity of our forest... Read more

Excerpt: This blog is about what is going on at the resort, and a the moment a large frozen chunk of water is what is keeping everyone entertained so you get one more day of pictures of skating across the lake. This time the wind was whipping the snow across the lake. Snow berms were starting to form which makes... Read more

Excerpt: As I type this blog entry the snow is falling, we are expecting another inch or so. Just enough to make everyone happy at Christmas. The snow was flying in the pines by Shamrock The reason for the snow... we shoveled an flooded the ice skating rink. Troy and Jake working on getting the ice just right Basketball practice... 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: It was a beautiful Christmas Eve and we all headed to the ice, even Chicken Little on a leash. We discovered Mack has a talent as a sled dog or what x country skiers call ski journing with your dog or skate journing as we were doing After a little discussion about not grabbing the leash that he never... Read more

Excerpt: On our way to the Lakeland vs. DC Everest basketball game in Wausau last night, I quickly pulled over so Troy could grab my Iphone and snap these pictures of an icefisherman at sunset on Lower Kaubashine. It was absolutely beautiful. Earlier in the day I did not have the camera or my Iphone when driving past and there... Read more

Excerpt: I just had this pictured shared by a friend who was out at Winter Park skiing today. Light snow coming down and a perfect day to be out enjoying it. We are expecting about an inch of snow from this afternoon to tomorrow.... Read more

Excerpt: Winter Park Report We received about 3/4 inch yesterday and we're gladly taking any flakes we get. Skiers were coming in all day with smiles reporting how pleasantly surprised they were with how good the skiing was. For the cautious, rock skis are still in order, but several folks were using their good skis without trouble. Got holiday plans? Don't... Read more

Excerpt: Mack and Penny would like to report a wonderful 8 inches of snow fell Monday. They were throughly enjoying romps in the snow It was a heavy wet snow that hung in the pines. Enjoy the pics The road to the resort was beautiful in the new snow Interesting old picture of down town Minocqua. I am guessing this... Read more

Excerpt: I know many folks check us out for conditions and the last 2 days have found us away from the resort sun up to sun down field trip to a Christmas Carol in Wausau, 2 basketball games and 8 hours of timing at a swim meet. So we are finally home to take a few pictures before the sun... Read more

Excerpt: Happy Birthday Mack, he turned 2 this weekend. With age will wisdom come? Will he get over his phobias.. riding in the car, going in the lake where his paws don't touch, going out on the ice, riding in boats.... time will tell... Read more