This is a shot of the city of Houghton, MI, taken from atop a hill in Houghton’s sister city of Hancock. Since the elevation rises so quickly going north of Hancock, the spot where I took this picture is easily 300 feet above Portage Lake (which separates the two cities) and less than ½ mile north of it. The campus of Michigan Technological University is to the far left, with the downtown area and the Portage Lake drawbridge in the center.