Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: Something is missing... I told Steve the steps over at Shamrock needed painting... I returned to find something else going on. I guess the new steps don't need painting anymore With temps soaring into the 90's with humidity it was not fit for man nor beast out of the water After plunging into the water (ok the truth, being... Read more

Excerpt: We headed out on Hwy 70 to see some color and stop into the Round Lake Rec area to explore the historic Round Lake Logging Dam. This was located about 13 miles down 70 West from Minocqua Info on when the lake was used as a storage spot for logs before shipping them over the dam and down the... Read more

Excerpt: Looking our at lunch today we had some visitors coming through The big Tom who was happy it was not Thanksgiving Heading off for a tour of the resort A few of the pontoons have made it out of the lake. The color in the volleyball court is something to be seen Boat shed will Craig finish it before... Read more

Excerpt: We had two huge loads of wood delivered to the resort from a local logger. This logger used a double section truck dropping 14 cords of wood in front of the shed. Question is can we get the big truck and trailer out of the driveway? Analyzing the corners of the driveway to judge if the big truck can... Read more

Excerpt: We received a few inches of rain over 24 hours, flooding the parking area around Holiday. Whenever we get a big rain, Lake Black appears in front of Holiday. Troy is trying to open the drain plug under the stairway to drain the lake away. Need a boat to go down the driveway 12 hours later I took this... Read more

Excerpt: I start to wonder if I can manage to come up with knew interesting leaf pictures, but walking around the resort everyday the leaves change along with the lighting and you see something new to take a picture of. All these pictures were taken between 4 and 5pm when the lightening gets softer from the glare during the middle... Read more

Excerpt: The mists and the color were at the lake this morning. Enjoy Now that I have tortured you with pictures of the awesome color, I do have 2 cabins left for this weekend. Beef A Rama is this weekend that everyone should experience once in their life. I hear the pirates are back on the corner by the Belle... Read more

Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhdxfB2j7qI&feature=related This link will take you to a video of Beef A Rama 2009. It will give you an idea of just how crazy this festival is. Youtube has other videos of Beef A Rama if you search for them... Read more

Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhdxfB2j7qI&feature=related This link will take you to a video of Beef A Rama 2009. It will give you an idea of just how crazy this festival is. Youtube has other videos of Beef A Rama if you search for them... Read more

Excerpt: Headed down to work at Bear Den and brought the camera along to take some color pictures in the bay Mack Came along for the ride as well and could not resist the lake I am not sure how he got in this position or what he was thinking beyond getting a drink of water What are you looking... Read more

Excerpt: Mac and I made a quick stop along where the road meets the lake at sunset. Colors are just starting You can see the trees along the shoreline just starting to turn Mac would like to lodge one complaint. 40,000 Harley Bikes have started to arrive in the Northwoods for this weekends Harley Rally in Tomahawk for MDA. He... Read more

Excerpt: I had been eyeing up these leaves for a couple of days with the half change, brilliant red offset by the deep green of the evergreen Woods starting to come alive with color More pictures to come when the sun comes out I had a correction on the mushroom from yesterday from Linda in Atlanta. Thanks Linda! Steve told... Read more

Excerpt: Dinner anyone? Steve has had his eye on this mushroom by Birchwood for a month or so. I believe the name he gave it was Head in the Woods. He is convinced they are good to eat and has already take home another one just like it that was 10 lbs. What is he going to find to do... Read more

Excerpt: 40,000 bikes arrived the northwoods this last weekend to raise money for MDA. It is always a fun weekend. We had about 20 bikes in the resort. This is our biggest group who were missing a few of their friends this year. I told them I need a name next year for their group. Much, good fun was had... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful afternoon and time to go enjoy some local trails. We headed to Clear Lake beach on County J to catch this trail that leads to the back end of the Raven Trail. This trail pops out on the red loop of the Raven Trail. After we were done hiking and I talked to Katie she... Read more

Excerpt: Cabins are all full and Craig has some time on his hands and an air compressor... what does that mean.... his eyes turned to the boat shed and wood shed.. 4 layers of roofing started to be peeled back. The first layer was the original put on in 1918 Analyzing the layers. The original layer was from the Keith's... Read more

Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WtxuPdziqY The above link will take you to a video of the single track mountain biking course on the Raven Trail in Minocqua. Most people who have mountain bikes have never taken them for what they were built for Single Track. Check out the video. It was shot by Bryon and his friends who created the course out on the... Read more

Excerpt: Big digging equipement... what is going on? I shall leave you in suspense. Tune back dirt flies in October... Read more

Excerpt: Been a lot of stripping going on around the resort, furniture stripping. This old cabinet had many layers of white led based paint stuck to it. After many hours working on it, it still has cracks and crevices to clean out Sophisticated tools of the trade. Back to work, it will be fun to see how this cabinet works... Read more

Excerpt: We had a controversial Yertle the Turtle finding. These 2 cousins Samantha and Kiya proudly came up carrying Yertle for their picture I found out however that they had secret info on his location from the original finders, their cousins Harrison and Savannah and brothers Ben and Cole who went to all 4 GPS spots to get the clues... Read more