Category: travel

  • 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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  • dumb and dumber

    dumb and dumber

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  • Campout Plan B

    Campout Plan B

    I was lucky enough to spend two days with some old friends from high school. Roy is an old hiking buddy from way back. We’ve been to the Porcupine Mountains and to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I’ve seen him two or three times since I returned to Wisconsin, most recently about a year ago… Read.

  • train nerds

    train nerds

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    Wednesday was a rainy day, so we spent the day mostly indoors at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. Unfortunately for us, we could get a close look at only a very few of the locomotives and railroad cars they have in their collection because they’re just now putting the finishing touches on a… Read.

  • wading

    wading

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    I spotted this guy wading in the tall reeds growing along the bank of Pope Lake in Hartman’s Creek State Park. Snapped his photo on the fly with my phone. Turned out okay, if I may say so myself. Read.

  • Hartman Creek State Park

    Hartman Creek State Park

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    I hung my hammock between two tall pines at Hartman Creek State Park, looking forward to a good night’s sleep and a view of the stars. Didn’t get either. Someone down the road had their radio going all night, so I drifted in and out of sleep to the tunes they shared with everyone else… Read.

  • Lake of the Pines / Hartman Creek State Park

    Lake of the Pines / Hartman Creek State Park

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    I slept pretty well at Lake of the Pines State Park, considering I had to sleep in my van. I was hoping to sleep in a hammock, but I was not willing to brave attacks from the squadrons of mosquitoes that would have zeroed in on me while I was hanging it, so I simply… Read.

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