Hello! from Grand Portage, Minnesota! So we are
up here in Grand Portage and we are about to go
hike Mount Josephine which we're so excited about because we've never
ever ever done this one so this will be awesome to experience this so just a
little input about this hike it is about 2.5 miles long to the top of
mount josephine and the entrance to get here is
very hidden so um you come in right off the
upper road is what it's called here on grand portage and you can't there's no
signage there's nothing it's just this tiny little
gravel driveway with the numbers 183 and 193 there's like blue signs
i'll actually show you this is the signage from the road as you can see
it's kind of fallen into a tree and this is the dirt drive where you
would turn into this small dirt parking lot from upper road
it's very hidden yeah we are the only ones here in the
parking lot right now so yeah we're gonna go conquer mount josephine
and see what the views are like on top and then just a heads up when you're in
the parking lot here it is the trail that runs parallel to upper
road is the trail to mount josephine there are no signs
anywhere the reason i know this is because i did a lot of research online
so if you are just tuning in we have been up here this morning and we just
went and hiked devil's falls this morning at the judge magney state park
that was awesome i vlogged that whole morning there at the park and so now we
are gonna hike mount josephine and then after this we
are gonna head over to grand portage state park and see the
tallest waterfall in minnesota so it's a full day up here on the north
shore at grand portage which is on the border of canada so um can't get
through though borders are closed because we're in the middle of a
pandemic in 2020 of course but yeah beautiful day and we're lucky to be
able to enjoy this today
so here's what the trail conditions kind of look like right now
a little muddy in certain areas but nothing too crazy and very manageable
it is july 24th as we are doing this hike so it is
the middle of summer and yeah we have bug spray on but
they're not bad at all and yeah it's good condition for the most part
so we haven't been up to grand portage probably for like
eight years it's been a long time since we came this far north and just in foi
there is no cell phone service we have verizon
and we can pretty much get verizon anywhere
we've been all around the world and we've always had good luck with verizon
but no none up here in grand ported after devil's cattle
there was no service so just a heads up if you are looking for this trailhead be
sure to start on your map before you get up here because otherwise
you probably won't be able to load your maps unless you download them
prior to coming so yeah fun fun
all right so there's a split now in this trail and
you take the first left here online it said there was a sign that said mount
josephine but i don't see a sign so we're just praying
this is the right one there's these little things here at the beginning
so maybe that's it but now we're going uphill so that makes that
sense we are supposed to be climbing mount josephine a pillow right
oh yeah now it's getting steep
more glute work
oh how you doing hon good mo josephine you're kicking our butt
this is definitely harder than devil's kettle
wow all right i'm starting to see the top
trees and water and bugs
now that we're getting from the trailer see how brushy this is
yeah it's brushy hopefully there's no chicks we have
spray though this could totally be bear country
we didn't come prepared when we were in voyager's national
and now we're up in grand portage and yeah we don't come prepared we're gonna
whistle we've got a whistle that's it we did buy
bear spray but we don't have it with us we're so smart all right now we got
rockiness getting towards the top
this last part is getting into a lot of switchbacks
so just be prepared
honey i think we made it oh my gosh you guys this is so
beautiful oh it's brutal we almost died but this is worth it oh
mt josephine i don't know about you but you
were worth it check this out guys oh
my gosh here it is
oh my gosh
this is really nice this speeds anything wow
wow this is mount josephine this is so pretty we made it
you guys this water is so blue i don't know if you can see it in the video but
it's like aqua and that looks like a white sand
beach it's not but it looks like everywhere up here
oh my gosh this is stunning so way over there's canada hi canada
and then way out there this ridge line down here that's actually
Isle Royale which is a national park which you can get to only via a boat
they might have little planes of lion but i'm pretty sure it's only boat
you can take boats from minnesota and you can take them from michigan
it's actually michigan's national park so yeah this is so
pretty we're like the only ones up here this is so pretty we are the only ones
up here not like we are oh my
this gosh amazing
so pretty this is amazing
wow so this is actually part of the thought to
the mountain range here in minnesota wow it's just views look at that
this is unbelievable this rivals carlton peak right hun
yeah for sure wow yep this is the best view in the state right here wow
this was so worth it oh my gosh so cool i can't stop saying wow because it
really is that beautiful up here wow good job hon i'm so glad we came up here
we were debating about possibly coming later today or maybe not being
able to come because this whole bay was fog when we got into grand portage and
it cleared out and it's beautiful so so happy we made
it up here so now we're gonna head back down and on
to our next hiking adventure grand portage state park i'll let you
know when we get back to the trailhead to see how long this took
us to hike this so stay tuned for that all right we just
made it back to the trailhead so we started the hike at 12:34 and it
is 2:25 so it took us about
an hour and 45 minutes little over hour and 45 minutes to do that two and a half
miles round trip it was brutal but it was so worth it
oh super worth it and yep that was definitely the most beautiful hike we
have ever done in minnesota so glad we did it if you haven't already
be sure to go watch my vlog from this morning where we went and
hiked devil's kettle and now we are on our way to grand portage state park to
go see the tallest waterfall in minnesota so stay tuned for
that video because that will be coming up next
and be sure to like and subscribe and we will see you guys in the next
vlog bye guys just really quick we are on our way to
grand portage state park and there's a scenic overlook here
just wanted to show you guys so that viewpoints we were seeing
well that's those little islands right here
and right there is mount josephine i see there's like a round
rocky area that's where we were so yeah views from up there were way prettier
than down here but this is so pretty so make the hike you guys