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Brady's Bluff and The Fairytale Forest in Wisconsin

Adventure Tuesday

Brady's Bluff - The Fairytale Forest

At Perrot State Park, where we went camping a few weekends ago, there are a few very short hiking trails. One of the park rangers pointed out a short hike, up in elevation, the evening we arrived. He looked at his watch and said well if you are fast and set up your camp, maybe you'll make it in time to see the sunset. I decided that I didn't want to bike over there to watch the sunset, but after seeing the low sun and the show it already had started, I changed my mind pretty fast. After arriving at the campsite, W and I had a beer and then I biked to Brady's Bluff by myself and took pictures of the sunset.

I literally ran up all the stairs so that I wouldn't miss it.

It felt like I was running up a tree house, these pictures don't give the reality justice, even though they are really pretty!

I sent pictures to W of the sunset and he was regretting his decision so much that we went there the next day too. The view and everything was still spectacular, of course.

The bluff itself consists of sandstone that has ben capped by a certain dolomite, Prairie du Chien dolomite.

In the mid 1930's, and the depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built large parts of this trail. During the depression the CCC was formed, intended to decrease the number of unemployed people, conserve nature and to "keep youth off the streets". The results at Brady's Bluff are pretty spectacular.

These stone steps covers large parts of the trail, and today of course, some areas have been reinforced, and also new wooden steps have been added (I guess they now realized how heavy those rocks must have been and that few people would want to carry those stones up the bluff..)

Just look at all those beautiful steps, built in with nature. The trail itself started down low of course, but very fast the bluffs and the thick vegetation took over as you zig zagged and circled to get up and up and up.

I know I say this every single time, but it's so green and lush here. It's quite amazing.

We got this amazing view again, well again for me of course, but the first time for W.

Do you have a new hiking route you've discovered lately?

Fire pits, the worlds most underrated creation

Flashback Friday

I'm going to share another memory, this time from last year and Alaska. If you want to see the other posts in this theme, click here: Flashback Friday.

Fall and Fire pits

Last year a dear friend of mine came to visit in Alaska, she's done research there before so she knew the place and wanted to come back. We met a few years back in Juneau and just clicked. She's one of the few real good friends I managed to acquire in this country. My dear cabin in the woods of course came with a fire pit. In the end we actually didn't use it that much, W and me, but when my friend came we used it several nights.

A few years back I went down to Wasilla to visit a friend. We went to her husbands family's house and their awesome backyard. There is something about sitting around a fire and just be.

In August you can already tell that the winter is on it's way, leaves have already started turning colors, if they are even left on the trees at this point.

I love fall in the boreal forest, and that is something I think I am really going to miss after moving here. We do have the North Woods up north, but that is a ways. I am however excited about discovering fall in Wisconsin.

I just love all the fall colors, do you have a specific forest, park, area or so that you usually go to over and over again through the seasons? Do you guys also have a fire pit or something alike?

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