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| author | Blaise Thompson <blaise@untzag.com> | 2021-07-08 16:42:51 -0500 |
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| committer | Blaise Thompson <blaise@untzag.com> | 2021-07-08 16:42:51 -0500 |
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diff --git a/source/birthday-hill/index.html b/source/birthday-hill/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c2d52e --- /dev/null +++ b/source/birthday-hill/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8" name="viewport" content="width=80ch"> + <title>Birthday Hill</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css"> +</head> +<body> + +<h1><a href="http://blaise.zone">blaise</a>-<a href="../">memories</a>/birthday-hill</h1> +<hr> + +<p> +David, Nancy, and Blaise spent some time enjoying the outdoors of Southern Wisconsin the weekend of October 16th, 2020. +</p> + +<p> +On Friday Night David and Nancy camped at Yellowstone Lake State Park near Blanchardville. +The campsite was nicely laid out with good privacy from adjacent campers, but there were some challenges. +It was very cold and their tent and sleeping bags were not good enough to keep warm. +A dog somewhere in the campsite area was barking for hours and adjacent campers made some noise. +Blaise arrived at the campsite early next morning for breakfast. +</p> + +<figure> + <img src="./campsite.jpg"> + <figcpation>David, Nancy, and Karaby have breakfast at their campsite in yellowstone lake.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./yellowstone-lake.jpg"> + <figcpation>Blaise poses in front of yellowstone lake.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p> +The family drove from the state park to the Brooklyn Segment of the Ice Age Trail. +Like the day before, they drove on many small county roads which were very rural. +On this trip they saw an Amish man harvesting his crops using 6 donkeys and an old fashioned harvesting machine. +</p> + +<p> +They arrived at the southern end of their planned hike, had a stand up lunch and then drove to the northern end of the planned hike. +It was only a 6 mile hike but they planned to do a short piece on Saturday and the remainder on Sunday, camping at a designated camping are on the trail Saturday night. +</p> + +<figure> + <img src="./IAT-67f.jpg"> + <figcaption>Northern section of the hike. The family began their hike at the parking log where the IAT crosses Frenchtown Rd. They camped at the dispersed site near DA33.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./start.jpg"> + <figcpation>Nancy and David begin hiking.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./corn.jpg"> + <figcpation>Nancy stands on the corn trail.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./fields.jpg"> + <figcpation>The trail crosses across a field. The trail was not too difficult but there was a strong wind.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./blaze.jpg"> + <figcpation>A yellow blaze: the Ice Age Trail.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./nancy-grass.jpg"> + <figcpation>Nancy walks through the tall grass.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./blaise-grass.jpg"> + <figcpation>Blaise poses in the tall grass.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./yellow-flowers.jpg"> + <figcpation>Yellow flowers.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./purple-flower.jpg"> + <figcpation>Purple flowers.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./foliage.jpg"> + <figcpation>October foliage.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p> +The hike to the camping site was nice weather wise and scenery wise but did have some strong wind. +The campsite is on the top of a hill referred to as "birthday hill" by locals. +After they set up camp they had an early dinner and tried to retire very early (5:00 pm ish). +</p> + +<figure> + <img src="./birthday-hill.jpg"> + <figcpation>Camping at Birthday Hill.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./dinner.jpg"> + <figcpation>Dinner.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure> + <img src="./tent.jpg"> + <figcpation>Blaise's tent.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p> +At 8:00 pm they were not able to sleep for the night, having just taken a semi nap. +Further the weather was surprisingly mild, but about to get very bad in the early morning. +So they broke up the camping stuff and hiked the remaining 4 miles in the dark before escaping to Madison. +</p> + +<figure> + <img src="./IAT-68f.jpg"> + <figcaption>Southern section of the hike. The family hiked from DA33 to the parking lot at Hughes Rd.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<hr> +<p> +<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>: no copyright +</p> + +</body> +</html> |