Olollo, this is Drew with Michigan Adventure Life and this week Karen and I are heading into the Mack Lake Orvere in Lumpton, Michigan. We're back packing into one of our favorite spots to catch the last bit of nice weather in the early fall and get some tarp camping in with Kara before it's deer season and she gets stuck inside for the while and of course if we happen to see a squirrel we're ready for that too. Before long we put on our orange and grab our bags and my muzzle loader and head off into the Huron National Forest and search for some adventure. The Lumpton entrance of the Mack Lake Orvere has two sections off of Dall Road. The closed section is popular for camping, hiking and hunting year round but not nearly as popular as the open trail ORV section. It's very popular in the spring, summer and fall but not nearly as much in the winter. That's when you'll find us in their snow-shoon around. After a long hike in just absolutely pouring sweat in this unseasonably warm weather. It's time to set up our tarp. We need to hang a ridge line, lay a ground sheet and get our sleeping bags set up for what was supposed to be a cold night. A zero-degree sleeping bag is absolutely miserable in 50 degree weather. So we make sure to keep our cooking fire real small and heat up some veggies I brought from my garden at home for Kara and I and before long it's time for a well-deserved rest and then when we wake up that's when the adventure really begins. As I'm looking around for squirrels and finding things to take pictures of I kind of assumed Kara was looking around for squirrels too but in reality she was making a whole different kind of new friend. A pointy friend. When Kara came back to camp I thought she'd found some squirrels for sure so I followed her up into the tree line up the ridge to see what kind of critter she caught up a tree. And to my disbelief and Kara's delight we got to witness one of the largest porcupines I've ever seen in Michigan. I'm no stranger to Michigan porcupines. I see them all the time when I'm camping. This one was a beast. It is certainly lucky for both Kara and I that she is such a good girl and just curious. Well he certainly is cool and since we only kill what we eat and I'm not gonna need a porcupine. And I'm not gonna let Kara eat a porcupine after investigating getting some pictures. Kara and I head back to pack up camp and get ready for that long sweaty hike back out to civilization back out to home. That's gonna be it this week folks if you liked it or even if you didn't. If you could give it the thumbs up click subscribe down there somewhere and then ring that bell so you get a notification next week when Dick and I go out and start dear season in the most my adventure life way. Also we finally did it. We hit 500 subscribers so thank you all very much. We really appreciate it. Each and every one of you even the ones who don't watch which is most of you. Thanks for taking the time to hit the button. So if you leave a comment down there and let us know what your favorite adventure was in season three it'll enter you in a drawing to win one of the aprons in our merch store where we also have these fancy polos and hats. I'll put more details in the video description. Thank you guys really thank you. That's gonna be it this week folks. It's been my adventure life. Thanks for watching.