Posts tagged #State Park

In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 2

Rearviewmirror 2018
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 4
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 4
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 3
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 3
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 2
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 2
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 1
In The Rearview Mirror 2018 pt. 1
 

Flashback Friday

Memories

April

The first few days of April we did get some snow showers, not enough to go skiing though. We had a couple of relaxing days, more baking before W defended his dissertation. Of course, a newly minted doctor needs a spectacular cake that shows what type of research his does. It took several hours but the result beautiful (according to me) and the cake itself was delicious. His research is also about forestfires, but W studies the effect of tree regeneration. Spring arrived early, and we finally visited Wyalusing State Park and at the same time spring made giant leaps towards the summer. We also finally found out that we were moving to NYC.

May

    By May summer had basically arrived. All around campus you could see the Badger dressed (or undressed) in different outfits. The one outside my department showed the anatomy of the badger. W graduated and we now have another doctor in the family. I did more science and when W’s family came to visit, and we once again went to the Olbrich Botanical Gardens. We went on my first road bike trip and had some great snacks afterwards. We also went north, up through Duluth and a short visit to Vikre Distillery. We continued to Superior National Forest and had a great time up there, what a gem that we somehow completely missed.

June

    June and hot temperatures arrived. I got an awesome postcard from a fellow blogger. I baked some more, and did more science. We went to Minneapolis and my first baseball game, which due to the 4 hr raindelay became my first non-baseball baseball visit. Tried to troubleshoot a new protocol in the lab which I had been for quite a few weeks. We had one last hurrah at our favorite cocktail bar, said goodbye to the lab, and packed up all our belongings. After a final visit to our neighborhood bar we departed Madison WI and arrived in NYC on the hottest day of the year, 105F.

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Flashback Friday, Rearview Mirror, Life in New York and tagged Madison Madison life Forest Nature northern Wisconsin rearviewmirror snow rearviewmirror2018 Moving Minnesota New York New York City 2019 Duluth Wyalusing State Park Superior Superior National Forest Badgerstate State Park Spring Summer roadtrip.

In The Rearview Mirror 2017 pt. 4

Flashback Friday

October

    October arrived, more work of course. We had friends over for a Swedish dinner party, filled with snaps, meatballs and good company. Gorgeous sunsets by the lake and the terrace. At the end of October we went to New York. I explored all of Central Park and managed to do about 9 miles walking per day on average. We saw Columbia University and a lot of other pretty places in the city. After that we went to Princeton, New Jersey. I fell in love with that small town. What a place. Like England on steroids, in the middle of nowhere, or so it felt. Fall colors had already arrived and I saw some great art at the art museum.

November

    November came and with that more fall. Fall has become a sad season for me, since my mom died in November 2016. This November our cat Olive got sick, and we though she just had a cold or something. We took her to the vet, and brought her home after some antibiotic shots. A week later we were there again, because she was breathing weird. That's when they noticed the water in the chest cavity, which apparently equals to "she will die". And she did, about three days later at a different vet, she stopped breathing while they were putting the catheter in after we decided to put her down. She died on her own terms. She was only about 8 years and had cancer in all of her stomach, so there wasn't anything we could do. 

December

    December and yet another Christmas. This year we did not venture out to Bozeman, instead we stayed in Madison. I baked, a lot. So much saffron in this house. I had been a bit sad about the lack of snow and thought that this would be the first Christmas in the US without snow. But on Christmas Eve I woke up to snow falling on the ground! Later that morning we went to Natural Bridge State Park and explored it all by ourselves. Apparently no one else go hiking on Christmas Eve. We celebrated christmas both on Christmas Eve, the Swedish tradition, and on Christmas Day, W's tradition. We even managed to have a fire outside, which was great. I always forgot how nice it is to have a fire outside, especially when it's cold.

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Flashback Friday, Rearview Mirror and tagged rearviewmirror2017 Garden gardening Central Park New York New Jersey Princeton Columbia University Princeton University Fall Madison Madison life Winter winter sun Snow Snowcover Cats Olive Devils Lake State Park Devils Lake Natural Bridge State Park State Park 2018 rearviewmirror.

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?

 
Posted on October 4, 2016 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Wisconsin, Adventure Tuesday and tagged Perrot State Park State Park Fairytale Deep Forest deciduous Forest brady's bluff bluff camping Summer Adventures tent Smores Summer Adventure Morning Sunset Park Hiking vandra Wisconsin Hikes Macro Summertime 2016 Camping.