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diff --git a/public/birthday-hill/index.html b/public/birthday-hill/index.html index 9ad1220..3c2d52e 100644 --- a/public/birthday-hill/index.html +++ b/public/birthday-hill/index.html @@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ <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> @@ -20,6 +32,22 @@ <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> @@ -32,7 +60,7 @@ <figure> <img src="./fields.jpg"> - <figcpation>The trail crosses across a field.</figcaption> + <figcpation>The trail crosses across a field. The trail was not too difficult but there was a strong wind.</figcaption> </figure> <figure> @@ -65,6 +93,12 @@ <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> @@ -80,6 +114,17 @@ <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 |