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Form the article:
On Aug. 1 and 2, Lassen will attempt to be the first person to swim from Beaver Island in Lake Michigan to mainland Michigan, ending at Good Hart. The swim is just over 18 miles long, qualifying as a marathon distance because it is over 10 kilometers, or roughly 6.2 miles.
"I laid out the route of this swim, so I would be the first person to do this swim at all," Lassen, 39, said. "There are all kinds of first swims out there in the world right now as open-water marathon swimming becomes more popular and people are putting routes together. A friend and I originally talked about going around the island, but decided to do that channel."
Lassen plans to do it all *** stoke. That made a skeptic out of me, until I read that he had done Catalina that way. Now, I'm guessing he'll make it. I'm definitely rooting for him.
I found this because I'm going to visit Beaver Island, so I checked Google news about it. Lassen is planning to do it about 2 days before I get there, though.
Beaver Island is my favorite place in the world. I just got back from there a couple of weeks ago. The water was warmer than ever which is great for me.
I did my own little swim to a shipwreck on the far South of the Island (in a manner I don't suggest). I had a kayak and thought about taking it to Garden Island but even kayaking there seemed like too much.
The other Islands have some fascinating histories as well. Garden Island had a medicine woman that lived there until relatively recently. I went by boat to High Island once, which once had a religous cult living on it and Indians and a school in the early 1900s. Now it is nothing but poison ivy.
The other islands are pretty much state owned and uninhabited. However, one guy owns 2/3 of South Fox Island. You can rent it out for just $250,000/week. www.bptransportation.com/index_mich1.html
That would be a heck of a swim to the mainland. Most of my family barely survived the ferry ride!
Let us know how you did on your trip.
Beaver Island is my favorite place in the world. I just got back from there a couple of weeks ago. The water was warmer than ever which is great for me.
I did my own little swim to a shipwreck on the far South of the Island (in a manner I don't suggest). I had a kayak and thought about taking it to Garden Island but even kayaking there seemed like too much.
The other Islands have some fascinating histories as well. Garden Island had a medicine woman that lived there until relatively recently. I went by boat to High Island once, which once had a religous cult living on it and Indians and a school in the early 1900s. Now it is nothing but poison ivy.
The other islands are pretty much state owned and uninhabited. However, one guy owns 2/3 of South Fox Island. You can rent it out for just $250,000/week. www.bptransportation.com/index_mich1.html
That would be a heck of a swim to the mainland. Most of my family barely survived the ferry ride!
Let us know how you did on your trip.
