My Story about Hiking the Ice Age Trail: I am now just slightly (just over 300 miles in.. by about a whooping 2.7 ! ) yet quite embedded into a focused effort (part of a dream) to hike the entire IAT. It seems as though the fantasy turned into a reality by accident… so often [...]

A two hour drive got us up to about 4 miles of the John Muir Park, where I met with Kathleen McGuin for an interview. I’ll be giving another presentation on August 7, featuring stories from the trail but mostly my philosophy and love for the outdoors … How it makes me feel. Trail Conditions: [...]

On the Trail With Kristen The landscapes are getting hillier and prettier as I get further North which presented some nice photo opportunities today. … We always check the IAT Trail atlas prior to hiking each day and give or take a mile or two we’re usually pretty close. Today, however was a different story. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]