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Category: hiking

  • arboretum amble

    arboretum amble

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    Ambled around the arboretum for a couple hours this morning just because it was such a beautiful day and I didn’t have any other commitments. When I visit the arboretum, I always try to include a stop at Big Spring. It’s a really lovely spot. Read.

  • flashback – The Pennine Way ’86

    flashback – The Pennine Way ’86

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    I took a week of leave to hike the Pennine Way while I was stationed in the United Kingdom. Read.

  • IAT Cross Plains/Andersen Preserve – 10/08/25

    IAT Cross Plains/Andersen Preserve – 10/08/25

    By 1:30 pm I was done walking the Pine Road loop and I still wasn’t ready to head home, so I went for a hat trick — three hikes in one day. According to my guidebook, there was a nearby hike on the IAT I could walk as a loop, so I headed south to… Read.

  • IAT Pine Road / Table Bluff – 10/08/25

    IAT Pine Road / Table Bluff – 10/08/25

    After walking the main two-mile leg of the Table Bluff segment and returning to my car, I still had plenty of time for another short hike and started thinking, “I drove all the way out here, so why not see what else there is?” Luckily, I brought along my official IAT guidebook, so I could… Read.

  • IAT Table Bluff segment – 10/08/25

    IAT Table Bluff segment – 10/08/25

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    I finally checked the Table Bluff segment of the Ice Age Trail off my to-do list. I’ve been up in that neck of the woods many times — I hiked the Indian Lake segment just a couple weeks ago, and the lower half of the Cross Plains segment twice, but for whatever reason I kept… Read.

  • IAT Straight River Segment – 9/10/25 to 9/14/25

    IAT Straight River Segment – 9/10/25 to 9/14/25

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    Three weeks ago, I spent five days with dozens of other volunteers helping cut a new trail through the woods near Luck, Wisconsin, for the Ice Age Trail Alliance. This was my first IATA trail-building event. I’ve been walking the Ice Age Trail for a couple years. The trail stretches around what had been the… Read.

  • IAT Indian Lake segment – 09/28/2025

    IAT Indian Lake segment – 09/28/2025

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    It was such a beautiful day today, I had to get out for a walk, and I wanted to walk a trail I hadn’t visited before, so I drove north and west to check out the Indian Lake segment of the Ice Age Trail. I didn’t walk the full length of the segment so I’ll… Read.

  • fallen

    fallen

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  • Father’s Day Gift 2025

    Father’s Day Gift 2025

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    Updating my hiking log, a Rite In Rain notebook, using a Rite In The Rain mechanical pencil, both gifts from Number One Son, Sean, for Father’s Day. Thanks, Sean! I’ve been using a Rite In The Rain notebook to log my hikes after watching My Darling B log all her gardening notes in the same… Read.

  • Porcupine Mountains 6-12-2025

    Porcupine Mountains 6-12-2025

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    I was supposed to be waking up in a camp site beside Mirror Lake this morning. Instead, I’m back at home doinking around on the internet. Not the four-day weekend I’d hoped for. (Disclaimer: that’s a photo of Lake of the Clouds, although if you squint you can see Mirror Lake in the distant background.)… Read.

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