NATHAN INVINCIBLE

I've been on a ton of adventures over the years but have resisted the urge to blog about all of them. Part of my reasoning was I was always too busy to actually do that. It takes a while to gather all the photos together, write the content, juice up my SEO, and so on, all just to tell the internet that I went for a hike on a random Tuesday afternoon and saw three squirrels fighting over an N64 controller they stole from some kid. To me, blogging was for people who were trying to sell something.

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Until... I decided to make a blog after all. But not a boring one! In keeping with the theme of the rest of my site – quite interesting things and self-deprecating banter – my blog will be different. I'm calling it, "That Time I..." and will tell my personal tall tales that are all entirely true. Only the most engaging, head-scratching adventures that haven't already been documented will make the cut. If it's not Nathan Invincible worthy, I won't write about it.

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Note: this is a work in progress as I dig deep to bring you weird old adventures and constantly go on new ones. Check back for updates!

Bolded entries are my personal favorites.

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That Time I...

• Witnessed the First Bus Jump in Ottawa National Forest History (March 2026)

• Serenaded a Night Street Vendor in Slovenia with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (February 2026)

• Found What is Almost Certainly the Largest Yellow Birch in Michigan (October 2025)

• Got a Private Tour of the White Pine Power Plant & Refinery (June 2025)

• Went Looking for a Cactus in the UP and Wound Up in the ER (June 2025)

• Showed the DNR a Hidden Mine Adit Full of Bats (March 2025)

• Slept in a Tiny Hunting Blind During a Snow Storm (January 2025)

• Hiked South to North Across the Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness (October 2024)

• Hiked a Loop From Black River Harbor to Presque Isle (September 2024)

• Found Three Young Vultures in Abandoned Buildings (Summer 2024)

• Biked Around the Sylvania Wilderness and Packrafted Along the Way (July 2024)

• Dodged Thunderstorms For the Most Epic Trap Hills Sunset (June 2024)

• Explored Every Inch of Deer Marsh (April 2024)

• Found the National Champion Red Pine (February 2024)

• Broke My Finger in an Uncharted Mining Ruin (January 2024)

• Found the Northernmost Lizard in Michigan (August 2023)

• Packrafted Under Gleason Falls During a Flash Flood (July 2023)

• Discovered a Series of Impressive, Uncharted Waterfalls (May 2023)

• Broke Two Snowshoes on an Eight Mile, 80°F Spring Waterfall Adventure (April 2023)

• Found a Four-Foot Diameter Snow Roller (March 2023)

• Led My Snowshoeing Class Half a Mile Offshore to Some Cool Blue Ice (February 2022)

• Built a Snow Hole at the Hacking Site (February 2022)

• Found a Porcupine in My Tent (November 2021)

• Paddled All of the Lakes in the Cisco Chain (October 2021)

• Hosted Gear Junkie and Chevy for a Promo Video Shoot (September 2021)

• ​Broke Through the Ice on a Lake in the Middle of the Sylvania Wilderness (April 2021)

• Winter Camped at Sturgeon River Falls (January 2021)

• Toured the Inner Workings of Victoria Dam (September 2020)

• Found a Dildo in the Ottawa National Forest (August 2020)

• Hiked the Gogebic Ridge Trail (and Biked Home) (October 2019)

• Skied Under the Mackinac Bridge (March 2019)

• Camped in a Snow Hole on Norwich Bluff (February 2019)

• Camped in -19°F Temperatures (January 2019)

• Half Died of Hypothermia for a Sunrise on the Lake of the Clouds Escarpment (December 2018)

• Got Locked in With Ice While Winter Lake Camping (November 2018)

• Camped in an Extinct Ice Volcano at the Fourteen Mile Point Lighthouse (March 2018)

• Moored a Boat on Gull Rock (September 2017)

• Paddled to the Huron Islands in the Dark for Sunrise (August 2017)

• Hiked Across Pictured Rocks and Made it Home in 60 Hours (April 2017)

• Winter Camped at High Rock Bay Before it Was Cool (March 2017)

• Paddled to Mackinac and Round Island for July 4th (September 2015)

• Hiked Across Four Miles of Ice to Rabbit Island (February 2015)

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