Tag: backpacking
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IAT Straight River Segment – 9/10/25 to 9/14/25
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.
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IAT Cedar Lake Project – 10/2/25 and 10/3/25
I’ve hiked many trails where stepping stones had been arranged to cross a small stream or a shallow river and when I did, I wondered how much effort and ingenuity it took to move those big stones into place. This week I found out. The Ice Age Trail Alliance was cutting a new trail through Read.
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Isle Royale National Park 05-30-2025
Put the picnic table in the marshiest part of the camp site. We’ll just dump some gravel in the mud underneath the table. It’ll be fine. The only time I got rained on while I was visiting Isle Royale was on Friday morning. Once, well before sunrise while it was still pretty dark, I heard Read.
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Isle Royale National Park 05-28-2025
My Darling B was surprised to learn there are outhouses in the wilderness areas of Isle Royale. If you have to answer the call of nature while you’re on the trail, you’re allowed to poop in a cathole. I didn’t have to on this trip, and I’m pretty happy about that, to be honest. I’ve Read.
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Isle Royale National Park 05-27-2025
My day started with a toad and ended with frogs. I’m not saying it means anything, but it’s an odd coincidence, don’t you think? Right out of Lane Cove campground, after crossing the plank bridge and just as I was starting the climb up the first ridge, a toad as big and fat as my Read.
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Newport State Park 4-29-25 — 5-1-25
Hello from Newport State Park in Door County, Wisconsin! I visited recently for a two-night stay to try out my new backpacking gear, as well as some of the oldest gear I have (my spindly old legs), all to make sure I’m ready to hit the trail this season. Here’s an obligatory selfie at the Read.
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morning walk 03/08/2025
I knew if I wanted to take a hike through the UW-Madison arboretum, I would have to get there before the sun had been up long enough to melt the ground and turn every trail into a slippery quagmire of muck, which was already starting to happen by the time I left at 10:00 this Read.
This Is Drivel 