Walking on the Edge

Joan, on the Escarpment Trail above Lake of the Clouds in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park.

J.W. Foster and Josiah Whitney, who surveyed the Lake Superior mineral deposits for Congress in the middle of the nineteenth century, included an engraving of this lake, which was then called "Carp Lake" (the river remains the Big Carp--see msprague's comment, below). It seems that the Porkies were already a tourist destination at that time.

Lake of the Clouds is clearly a preferable denomination....