When: 5:15 pm, Wednesday, 7 October 09
Where: meet at the Park Street Circle (PSC)
Leaders: Connie Lane, Matt Kaufmann
Cost: $1, plus money for food/ice cream
Wednesday evening Matt "Navs" Kaufmann and I will lead a tour of the Ice Age Trail segment near Cross Plains that Hoofer Outing Club members built last winter. Our trail segment is about 15 miles from campus.
For those of you who don't know it, the citizens of Wisconsin are building an 1100-mile trail for the National Park Service along the edge of the glaciers of the last ice age. Since Hoofers use trails for many of our outdoor activities, many of us have been building trail as a community service project. Sometimes (as in this coming weekend), we participate in Mobile Skills Crew weekends, when 300-400 people converge on a spot and build trail or trail structures (bridges, retaining walls, boardwalks) for a local chapter that cannot build big structures on its own, or sometimes we work on fairly simple trail in the Madison ares. Last winter we built a segment for the Dane county chapter of the IANST (Ice Age National Scenic Trail) as part of a larger area known as Table Bluff, and we have agreed to build another local segment this winter.
Wednesday evening Navs and I will take you to hike the segment built last winter. We hope that you decide after seeing the segment that you want to pitch in and help build the trail. Trail building days/events are always fun and in very scenic locations. We can guarantee you, once you build some trail, you will never take it for granted again. We'll answer any questions you have, either about our local trail or Mobile Skills Crew weekends, as we hike the trail.
We'll stop in for refreshments (probably frozen custard) before returning to Madison. We should be back by 8 or 8:30.
We have room for ten people. Let me know if you can drive and how many you can take. I'll let you know if I need for you to drive.
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