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Pyramid Point #1
The almost-lunar landscape of the giant blow-out atop the southern-most end (the Good Harbor end) of Pyramid Point. At some point in the past this part of the dune collapsed, or avalanched down its own face, wiping out the vegetation there and leaving the ‘scar’ that is visible from Good Harbor beach today. Then the tremendous winds here, scooped out a giant bowl, the rim of which I hiked last month, in October ’09. To proceed along the beach-side edge of the dune face to the south, one has to climb up another 125 or so feet; so about half of the dune that now forms this bowl collapsed, shifted, fell away, or ??? – for reasons I can’t explain. Like the almost perfectly spherical shoreline of South Manitou Island’s bay, or the almost perfectly circular holes along Overby Road, there are geologic features in Leelanau County that just beg for explanations.
– Jim Chester, Okemos & Cedar, MI