Hiking the Ice Age Trail with Rich and Kathbert

 

Today Tiffy joined us at brunch, then Travalon and I met Rich and Kathbert out in Cross Plains to hike another part of the Ice Age Trail. We had just barely gotten onto the trail when we heard a train, and we were right by the tracks, so I made a video. Unfortunately Blogspot is not letting me post it right now, so I'll have to throw it on YouTube as usual. It was just one engine going backwards. Travalon took some photos.

Then we walked along a sidewalk until Kathbert spotted the trail seeming to go into a person' backyard. We followed it up a steep hill, down the other side of the hill, across Highway P, and into a field with a boardwalk for seemingly no reason. Of course Blogspot loaded these photos in opposite order of how I requested, so you can start with a couple of photos of us skipping on the boardwalk.

There was a little bit of fall color, but nothing like last year.

I love this hill. The trail went around two sides of it.

We also saw a biplane fly overhead.

More fall foliage, such as it was.

Here you can see Cross Plains under an interesting rock formation.

Classic red barn.

Here are some more cool rock formations.

Here are Kathbert, myself, and Rich on the trail, with some mystery person behind us.

That cool hill again - I just loved that hill!

More photos from the trail:

And a video: Rich and Kathbert skipping on the boardwalk!

Then Travalon and I took a shortcut following Highway P to get back to the car in time for me to get to Irish class, and we now have 0.4 miles left on our challenge. Oh man, if we had each gone a quarter mile more, we would be done!

After Irish class, we watched the Packers play the Bears. We had taped it, since they played at noon, and for once we hadn't heard anything to give away who won. Guess what? The Packers did! A joke going around on social media says: "Aaron Rodgers bought a stake in the Milwaukee Bucks. Now he owns two teams, including the Chicago Bears." Ha! I guess after Rodgers ran in a touchdown himself, a Chicago fan flipped him the double bird, so he said, "I still f--king own you!" Maybe not the nicest thing for him to say, but there's some truth to it, since he's 22-5 against the Bears. And this game was in hostile territory: Soldiers Field. That just makes the victory that much sweeter.

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