Our Trail JournalHAPPY 2012! LET’S HOPE THE MAYANS WERE WRONG!
A new year brings BIG changes to mnjhiketheiat.net! A new look to the whole website (including the trail journal) is only the start. We added a trail log to keep a running tally of our miles hiked all in one place (relocated from the gps track pages). We will be sending out regular updates and [...]
Talking gear … take two
So I talked about needing newer gear for the longer hikes, and I thought of something else I will need. I will need a solar charger for my iPhone. A cell phone is a survival tool for emergencies, and once we are in the woods, the phone will only last for so long, even with [...]
Talking Gear …
In Bill Bryson’s awesome read, A Walk In The Woods, there are a couple spots where he talks gear. The first time is in chapter one, where he talks about buying all of his gear and his realization about two very important things: weight (which he would realize even more about later in the book), [...]
2011 Lapham Peak Chili Campout
This last weekend was the 2011 Lapham Peak Chili Campout with the Waukesha/Milwaukee chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance. Mike and I attended and had a great time. We had 20 people attend and 10 stayed the night. There were three chilis and one pot of my Hobbit Stew. Hobbit Stew is a recipe [...]
Can you be a distance hiker AND a foodie?
I have to admit something. I like food. that might explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. I am … a foodie. I like to experiment with new tastes and flavors. I like to try new and different food options. So how can I hike, knowing that my kitchen can’t come along [...]
A Tale of Two Pictures
Last Saturday, Mike and I went hiking in the Northern Kettle Moraine. While we were on the trail, I was distracted, and I wasn’t enjoying the trail like I usually do. I probably wasn’t the most fun to be around while we were hiking, and though I tried really hard to enjoy it, I wasn’t [...]
Spring is Coming!
Jim and I have had the hiking itch for a few weeks now. The weather has been playing with our heads and the best we could do is browse the sports sections of various stores and dream. Today we headed out to Milton Wisconsin to work on filling in the small and only missing portion [...]
Snowshoes! Oh, and hiking too!
OK, this post is a little tardy. Honestly, the only one who can be blamed is me. Yup, me, moi, and … me in whatever other languages our readers might happen to know. It starts with Christmas. Mike, in his infinite wisdom, decided the way to get me moving on buying snowshoes so that we [...]
Making the most of what you have…
So I have a stack of old newspapers and lots of random papers at work. We recycle at work, but there is still a lot of paper that gets thrown away in the shuffle. So what to do with the old papers? I discovered something new, recycling paper into fire logs. The process is simple. [...]
Waiting to Snow Shoe…
Jan 3, 2011 Jim and I have been waiting and wanting to some degree, to go snow shoeing on the trail. We both now have snowshoes but where is the snow? My guess in questioning the trail gods in this manner( as is not suggested), we’ll get dumped on at some time. Since we do [...]