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Traverse City paddleboarders hope to cross Lake Michigan

Stand Up for Great Lakes

  Five friends from Traverse City are looking to cross Lake Michigan later this month on stand-up paddleboards. (You might have heard this called SUP. It looks something like a surfboard, but riders face forward and they use a paddle to ply through the water).

Andrew Pritchard says the team is looking forward to a serious challenge.

“You’re using almost every muscle in your body,” he says. “So it’s going to be very physically strenuous and I’m sure by the end of it it’s going to have taken a toll on our bodies and probably our minds a little bit.”

The group plans to leave Algona, Wisconsin when weather allows the week of August 25th. They estimate being in the water at least 20 to 24 hours. (A team of paddlers did something similar last year, arriving in Muskegon).

They’re using the adventure to raise money for the Alliance for the Great Lakes.