Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Cooler temps have made for some great campfire nights. We got our budgie pie makers out with white bread and fruit pie filling, blueberry, apple and cherry. Cherry is my favorite Cooking my cherry pie with cinnamon and sugar topping The Michael Family happy to all be together. No corona cooties in this picture just happy grandkids thrilled to... Read more

Excerpt: A few year ago a guy and a gal met and had three girls. Dan and Steph brought Jaimie, Melanie and Laurie to the resort since they were babies. Dan's whole family enjoyed summers at there resort even before the girls came along. Dan's parents, Wills and Lou Christian started the the tradition with their kids before these girls... Read more

Excerpt: We were happy to have family arrive for a visit. Mark and Kathy Lammers stopped in. It was a treat to spend time with them during these times. Mark flew from Seattle and was happy to enjoy a few days in the midwest visiting family and escaping COVID. They broke out my moms canoe paddles from storage with Steve... Read more

Excerpt: The road in to peace and quiet We have had some beautiful rainy mornings Storms at night, followed by raccoons fighting at night last night kept everyone up a bit last night Fishing has been good. The Frisch and Temple families have been doing some great crappie and musky fishing Working on my inventory for my new online store... Read more

Excerpt: Every week we go through pictures like this, Saturday morning kids saying goodbye to the lake looking sad and wishing 51 weeks would pass quickly until they are here again Those sad pictures are quickly followed in the afternoon by happy kids like Finley wondering how fast everyone can unpack before he can get to the beach or the... Read more

Excerpt: We had a great 4th of July at the resort. It was different with COVID19 and trying to keep up social distancing at the resort. In town most things were canceled except for the fireworks including the parade. Kelsey pictured above loves the parade and it is one of her favorite things on vacation since she was little. Our... Read more

Excerpt: Blue skis and summer ahead! Currently we are booked till August 21st and that is a good thing! Thankful for our repeat and new guests who have put their confidence in us to have a safe space for them to step out of their houses and do a little traveling to our corner of the northwoods We are doing... Read more

Excerpt: Summer is here the red boat is in the water! Jake playing around with the steering but we got it going. Ready for its 64th summer skimming across Lower Kaubashine Its fawn season. This baby looked minutes old getting across the road Not very steady yet on its legs Safely across with mom Lake front is mostly ready Our... Read more

Excerpt: Mack is getting the hang of this social distancing thing. His ice fishing buddies Jimmy and Fritz went floating by in their boat and Mack I swear knew them from a distance. He misses nosing Fritz's pocket for sausages. Social distancing is hard on a 10 year old resort dog but he is doing it Sharon and Tom in... Read more

Excerpt: In the past I have been flexible with our check in and check out times in the summer as long as we could be. This summer due to needing to have as much time between groups to let the cabins air out, be disinfected with spray, cleaned and sanitized a 2nd time with bleach water we will have to stick... Read more

Excerpt: Our exciting news. Our middle son Ben graduated from Saint Norbet College this weekend. We tried to make it as special as we could for him graduating from home Insert Pomp and Circumstance. His graduation walk has been delayed to August 29th but we were taking the pictures now He graduates with an accounting degree and minor in finance... Read more

Excerpt: COVID 19 Update Our family’s commitment to provide a safe and clean environment for families to travel to has never been higher. Our phones have been ringing as we hear from our regular guests and new ones. We realize everyone needs their time in the woods and at the lake even more now. We are determined to continue to provide... Read more

Excerpt: It was nice to see families enjoying some stress free time in the Northwoods this weekend. The Moisan clan was enjoying a fire and hot dogs around the fire. Missing from the pic is Mack who I will not let carouse the resort like he usually does. He was pouting by my side as I took the pic. He... Read more

Excerpt: I am happy to announce our hospital grade disinfectant arrived this week. I am so relieved. I feel with these products we will be able to better provide a safe place for families to visit this year. John has been our pest control guy for over 20 years. He is a biologist who grew up in Minocqua and started... Read more

Excerpt: The resort is slowly shaking off the winter look and looking more like summer. The leaves need to pop our more but it is looking more green out As we creep closer to summer lots of talking with guests on the phone. I had a question about masks are we requiring them. We will not require them but do... Read more

Excerpt: Earlier this week the loons returned. It was nice to see them. They were fishing in front of the resort checking things out Seeing the loons means things are picking up around here and thoughts of being busier than 1 - 3 cabins each weekend like we have been surfacing. We will be open and are planning on precautions we... Read more

Excerpt: We woke up to 10 inches of snow on the ground.... This would be the time I do not appreciate the beauty of the snow We are all doing well so far in the Northwoods in our little bubble. We are waiting still to hear from our governor and health department on what the next steps are. We will... Read more

Excerpt: We have been very thankful for a little bubble in the northwoods the last few weeks. We have kept busy with projects and getting going on spring maintenance. We do not know what the future holds but we will be ready for it. We are waiting for direction from the state to know how to operate as summer gets... Read more

Excerpt: When we have time on our hands everyone deals with it different ways. Steve decided it was time to climb a tree Back down to collect a chair saw Up up he goes chainsaw in hand Vroom Vroom what could go wrong? Notching the tree just right Safely back on the ground Cranking the tree down with a rope... Read more

Excerpt: So how is life in the Northwoods you ask? According to Mack all is well but nobody is here to give him any bacon. He is the most chill member of the family Minocqua is quiet just take out open for restaurants and the grocery stores are staying stocked of most things. Walmart gets picked over but they had... Read more