I woke up at about 3:30 excited to get back to hiking. Today was nice weather, not so humid as it’s been! Wisconsin’s Prairies continue to delight me, especially in the morning with their bath of morning dew! Most of today’s hike was on road but it was hilly, curvy and twisty country farmland.. Though [...]
July 9 Lake Geneva – Clearwater Outdoor 7 – 8 PM Lost in a Sedona Canyon: How I Survived Overnight as the temps fell to 19 degrees. July 19 Chippewa Falls, WI – Ice Age Trail Center 6 – 7 PM The Ice Adventure : Miles and Stories to Date July 30 Lake Geneva – [...]
Happy to get up and out earlier today.. Still ending at 1 which is in the heat of the day. Soon it would be best to break the day up by hiking 12 early and then finish up with 6 or 8 in the late afternoon. We are still trying to get a bit more [...]
It’s been more than a few days since I’ve been on the trail for a few reasons. Sometimes reasons seem like roadblocks and can be highly frustrating when I’m trying to “get somewhere”. But once I grasp the concept that even the challenges are part of the journey, I begin to see the opportunities that [...]
now at least a few hours from any new trail head along the IAT the challenge has been getting up early enough to set out to get on the trail before it gets blistery hot and humid. I didn’t think I minded it too much but my body has been telling me differently. We’ve been [...]
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Pristine sand, swept clean each day by the wind … Nature’s canvas painted with the imprints of those inhabiting her land.
Trail Conditions: varied. Good but wet in one section (IAT junction area) of prairie. – i enjoyed it! Hard to figure out where to go after crossing Hwy M into the golf course… Not marked. Animal Totems: RT Hawk pair, groundhog, doe with fawn, toad, cardinals Weather: Hot and Humid, 88 Highs: splashing through flooded [...]
Canyonlands Pictures “Our Heart knows the answers but our mind asks the wrong questions… usually because our mind doesn’t like the answer .. so we try to disguise the answer with evasive questions that allow for some sort of deviation of the reality … it (the deviated reality) may “act” as a placebo for a [...]
Promotional Prints are back! … 1 for $20, 3 for $40, 5 for $60 … See this weeks prints in my Ice Age promo gallery. What’s this latest adventure about? I just completed hiking 232 miles of the Ice Age Trail and have a bit over 800 or so to go … its called a [...]
The first day of hiking the Ice Age Trail, knowing that it may be the first day of the start of more .. much more .. much much more .. and now 223 miles later my footsteps are beginning to actually take on some shape in the state of Wisconsin .. ) See the trail [...]
Directions to self: Remy to Frenchtown left Badger trail right To end at Sun Valley Rd Moral of today’s story: Lesson Number 1. Never take off the Bug Suit Lesson Number 2. Never take off the Bug Suit Lesson Number 3. Never take off the Bug Suit Lesson Number 4. [...]
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I meant to get out early today but had some huge technical issues with my blog this morning. It was like a “white out” online – nothing but white screen… I was up at 4 but suddenly it wasn’t to hike but to deal with techie issues… I’m stubborn but 6 hours later it was [...]
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I’m really liking this course today. It’s been fun meandering through woods which come out to farm fields and tranversing a field to come back to the woods again. The only busy highway section today was on H and that was just a mile so it was tolerable. I really can tell a difference in [...]
Weather: sunny, 89 degrees F, I’m glad, so glad to be finished with this section of the IAT. I’d skipped and skirted it for a time, not looking forward to the long long straight road of busy Highway A… But that’s done now and I’ve officially declared this section as the least favorite part of [...]
As I’ve been hiking the IAT ( Ice Age Trail), one of the things I haven’t looked forward to are the paved road sections where there is no trail. But today was different … Duke joined me from somewhere on Bump Road.. I guess you could literally say he “bumped into me”… Lol Anyway, the [...]
I am finally getting my images updated, uploaded, organized… um, did I say organized? .. Well the more I actually feel I get organized with all my images from the last year or so the more organization I find out I can do! … Anyway, a very special moment in February of this year .. [...]
I am adding images to a new gallery .. check out the Arizona and Colorado Images here and take advantage of my weekend special.. actually the special lasts til Tuesday, June 15. .. Click on images you like and select the 8×12 promo prints in the drop down menu for just $20 each. Buy 6 [...]
Story: Ive done this segment before but found out that biking doesn’t count towards completing the 1000 plus miles of the IAT, so today I’m out here to put in the foot miles on the 12 or so that Ipreviously did on my bike. I’m now 9.5 miles into this today and feeling discouraged. The [...]
“I don’t have goals, I hold aspirations.” Kristen Westlake This may be a tough one for some to grasp, but you have to peer into the watery depths to get the meaning … A goal is concrete and definite. A goal is measurable. An aspiration is defined as a strong desire, longing, aim… A goal [...]
see all of my stories and video blogs from the wave This beautiful kaleidoscope of rock formations, color and shapes exists in a wilderness area of Utah and Arizona desert. I was fortunate to be one of just 10 walk ins to get a permit in a lottery the day before at the BLM station [...]
Story: The LONGEST trek so far! The day was beautiful and I was happy to start off the trek today with wooded trails! It’s been a lot of days on pure pavement or very hard packed long and flat trail or road. The flat and hard trail is much harder on my feet than the [...]
West Fork of the Oak Creek Canyon Images On March 13, 2010 I set out down through the canyon on Highway 89A, the canyon that leads Flagstaff to Sedona. I had read about an array of hikes in the Sedona region and was planning to do a photography hike, as I do often. The hike [...]
I am working on contacting Ice Age Trail Chapter Coordinators & press in the areas that I will hike through to see about putting together something akin to the familiar “meet and greets” or “meetups” … more like a “Hike and Greet” or “Hike up” (name to come ). This week I am taking a [...]
I was excited to learn that I could add all of my tracks from the IAT so far (in Everytrail) to create ONE trip.. This is a really cool thing to be able to see how much .. or how little (but I am a glass half full type), of the trail that I have [...]
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Story: Story: got going the right way today off of Bump Road, yipee! The last day I was here I took off on the trail to the left which went south when I needed to veer first east ( the way I’d come in) and then North… The weather started beautiful and the last few [...]
what was supposed to be (map 70f and 69f) – Bump Road West to Exeter Road – I temporarily skipped the last segment of the IAT that would be all paved road… Long and straight and flat. This is the Sugar River trail that the IAT utilizes and it’s pretty but again, really flat. Realization [...]
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Day 11 of the Ice Age Trail … Special Price on Special Edition Canvas Prints available only through June 10 .. pick your philanthropy and I will donate part of the print sale! This picture was made on June 1, near Janesville WI as I hiked the Ice Age Trail… more of the story here [...]
Trail Conditions: flat paved bike trail. Wooded trail at the end Weather: 80 degrees F. warm, sunny, nice breeze People: lots. Animals: robins, male cardinals, kildeer Highs: a man who stopped as I was facebooking to ask mr of I was doing the whole IAT.. I must look “official” 2. Nice breeze 3. The last [...]
My everytrail iphone app refused to work today so I used my once beloved Trails app instead .. I still love that app but I can’t post diary stuff along the way .. thus I am adding everything afterwards… The trail today was gorgeous for the first two miles and I saw a lot of [...]
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