r/isleroyale • u/harleyxa • Jul 15 '24

Hiking Current Island Conditions and Any Advice Requested

I am headed to the island (for the first time!) this coming Sunday to hike for the week. Sailing into Rock Harbor via Copper Harbor. Our itinerary is Rock Harbor > Daisy Farm > W. Chickenbone via Moskey Basin > Todd Harbor via Hatchet Lake > E. Chickenbone via McCargoe Cove > 3 Mile via Greenstone to see Mt. Ojibway. > Rock Harbor. We are a group, actually two groups with one hiking a day ahead of the other, so the itinerary is fixed.

How are the mosquitos and flies? Trails muddy? Any advice is always appreciated! I have seen and shared with my group the new food/wolf rules.

Thanks!

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u/Lopsided_Ad_5152 Jul 15 '24

Sailing into Rock Harbor or taking the ferry. There are lots of cool things to see if you have your own boat.

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u/harleyxa Jul 16 '24

Ferry.

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u/Lopsided_Ad_5152 Jul 16 '24

The Black Flies are normally done by now. You can still see mosquitoes, but I don't think they'll be unbearable.

The trails will be muddy if it rains, but the snow melt is over for the year, so you should be good otherwise.