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Category: travel

  • IAT Montrose Segment – 11/19/2025

    IAT Montrose Segment – 11/19/2025

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    Today I took a little walk down part of the Montrose Segment southwest of Madison. I still have to walk about a mile of this segment to complete it! Read.

  • IAT Verona segment – 11/05/2025

    IAT Verona segment – 11/05/2025

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    I had a walk around the neighborhood where we live but after completing my morning chores I felt the need to get out and get another walk in some place I hadn’t been before. There are several nearby segments of the Ice Age Trail I haven’t visited yet, believe it or not, so I picked… Read.

  • IAT Madison Segment – 11/04/2025

    IAT Madison Segment – 11/04/2025

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    I wanted to get out on the IAT this afternoon but I didn’t have time to go far, so I picked a segment I’ve been putting off because it runs through a golf course. Not the most interesting segment I’ve been on & I doubt I’ll ever be in a hurry to revisit it. Read.

  • cannonball

    cannonball

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    Went for a short walk along the Capitol City Trail and the Cannonball Path, two paved cycling/running/walking paths I’ve biked on often but have only rarely walked on. There’s an interesting little connecting path where the two mail paths pass close to one another, near Ashbourne Pond in Fitchburg. I don’t use it much when… Read.

  • 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.

  • flashback – Boundary Waters ’83

    flashback – Boundary Waters ’83

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    I went back to the Boundary Waters with a buddy from my hometown. I was smart enough to write the date on the back of one of the photos: 1983. This is from a box full of photos which I was certain I had lost. Finding them again was the highlight of my day. Read.

  • flashback – a trip to the Boundary Waters

    flashback – a trip to the Boundary Waters

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    As a wee lad, I was in a semi-official Boy Scout troop. Our troop leaders, Dave Sabrowsky and Cliff Stern, were somehow confident enough in our abilities to take us on a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area one year. I wish I could remember exactly which year — possibly 1978? I’m pretty jazzed… 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.

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