FROM AUDREY’S JOURNAL

There is a certain feeling in Northern Michigan when hunting season arrives.

You notice more trucks heading down the back roads. Hunting cabins that have been quiet suddenly have lights on again. Trail cameras are getting checked, boots are lined up by the door, and someone is already talking about the big buck they saw last year.

But I’ve always thought deer camp was about much more than the hunt itself.

It’s about traditions.

It’s the early morning coffee before heading into the woods. The stories that get a little bigger every year. The meals shared around a crowded table. And the memories made with parents, grandparents, children and friends.

For some families, deer camp has been the same little cabin for generations. For others, it’s a camper on ten wooded acres or a simple place beside thousands of acres of public land.

It doesn’t have to be fancy.

Sometimes the best memories are made in places with muddy boots by the door, a woodstove keeping everyone warm and a table where there’s always room for one more person.

As a Northern Michigan Realtor, I meet people who dream about owning hunting land of their own.

They talk about acreage, wildlife, trail access and where they’d like to build a cabin someday.

 

But I think what they’re really hoping to find is a place where their own traditions can begin.

A place to return to every fall.

A place where the kids and grandkids will someday tell their own deer camp stories.

Because the greatest thing you bring home from hunting camp isn’t always something you harvested.

Sometimes it’s a 

memory that stays with you for a lifetime.

— Audrey
Irons Real Estate
The Up North Journal