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+  <title>Birthday Hill</title>
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+<h1><a href="http://blaise.zone">blaise</a>-<a href="../">memories</a>/birthday-hill</h1>
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+<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>
+
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