Tag: outdoors
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Blue Hills Felsenmeer 5/23/2026
After checking out the wooden canoe festival, I ate lunch a couple blocks down the street at the Round Man Brewing Company, then drove about a half-hour south of Spooner to hike to the Blue Hills Felsenmeer. While I was helping cut trail at the Ice Age Trail event last week in the Blue Hills,… Read.
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Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum
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IAT Hemlock Creek Segment 5/22/2026
Just one week after volunteering to help build new trail for the Ice Age Trail Alliance in the Blue Hills of Wisconsin, just northeast of Rice Lake, I went back up nort dere this weekend to check out the seasonal opening of the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner, Wisconsin. I learned about the museum… Read.
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wild goose chase
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walking on sunshine
There were signs early Monday morning that the weather was going to be extraordinary, but I had no idea until I got out into it how glorious it would turn out to be. Sunny, calm, so pleasantly warm it could have been any day in the middle of summer. I just loafed along the trail… Read.
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IAT – CLEANUP DAY! — 2/25/2026
Sometimes I hike a segment of the Ice Age Trail, but I don’t finish it. I leave it half done. I have the best of intentions to return to the segment to finish it off, but then I don’t. Now that I think about it, I’m like this with washing clothes, too. I can wash… Read.
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IAT Devil’s Staircase / Arbor Ridge – 02/23/2026
Today was a good day to walk a couple nearby segments of the Ice Age Trail. I wanted a segment close to home — an hour away by car or less — because I felt like doing more walking than driving this afternoon. Opening my guidebook, I started flipping through pages of maps in nearby… Read.
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IAT University Ridge
Oh I am so very sore this morning! And a little bit tired, even after a good night’s sleep. I spent the better part of five hours yesterday chopping up brush and stacking it in piles which towered over my head. It’s getting harder to recover from that kind of workout than I did when… Read.
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IAT Gibb’s Lake Segment – 02/07/2026
Not too far from where I live, only about 40 minutes away by car, there’s a lonely little segment of the Ice Age Trail which winds around the eastern shore of Gibb’s Lake in Rock County. It’s one of those segments of the IAT that’s connected to other segments via a long road walk. From… Read.
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IAT Scuppernong Segment – 02/04/2026
After hiking the southern half of the Scuppernong Segment yesterday, I went back today to walk the northern half. Conditions were much the same today as they were on Tuesday: Sunny, clear skies, a light breeze, temperatures in the twenties. Perfect, except for the temperatures. I dressed for cold weather, packed a lunch, and hit… Read.
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