Happy Back into the Woods Day 2025!

via Michigan in Pictures…

Winter … a step at a time by Ken Scott

“Back Into the Woods Day” is one of the invented Michigan holidays I celebrate on Michigan in Pictures (and Leelanau.com). It’s an annual December 1st holiday that celebrates the end of firearm deer hunting season & the return of (mostly) gun free hiking trails. To be clear, Leelanau.com is in favor of hunting, but with many national park & other trails open to hunting, firearm deer season is a good time to stay out of the woods!

Today’s photo is from Leelanau’s own Ken Scott, and I’d like to be sure to highlight his 2026 “Best of the Back Pages” Calendar again. It features some of his great photos from the back page of the weekly Leelanau Enterprise. See a few more below including these amazing snowy owl tracks and check out many more in Ken’s massive snow gallery on Flickr.