I was there!

Lookout below!

Another (slightly) oldie from my "interesting" collection. You can't quite see it from here, but my snowshoe tracks are up there!

This is one of my favorite places along the Cliff range: The Lookout. Apparently different people have different lookouts, but this is what I think of as the Cliff Lookout.

It's a bit of a hike (no, you don't have to go straight up the side of the cliffs... but you can if you want), but the view is 100% worth it. You can even see the silhouettes of the Huron Mountains in the distance. The most amazing thing, to me, is that tree -- you can see it here. It's a big old pine growing straight up out of the rock, over the edge of the cliffs.

There's nothing quite like the solitude at the top of the lookout. When I snowshoed out to the lookout, there weren't any tracks at all on the trail to the lookout -- nor on the trail to the trail! It was one of those feelings which I love when I'm hiking up here -- that I'm the first person in years to set foot here and see these sights. It might not be true, but this is still one of my favorite places to go whenever I really need some time alone.