Ice Age Drift
Newsletter of the Dane County Chapter
Ice Age Trail Alliance
Summer
2014
Winter 2011
Visit us
online at www.dane.iceagetrail.org
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Four from
Dane County
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Madison’s Matt Kaufmann, 27, and Tess
Mulrooney, who chose to be ageless, also
completed the trail in 2013, but they hiked it
section by section over two to five years.
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Cross Plains, align and attach the kick rail, one
of the last construction steps for Dane County’s
“Brooklyn Bridge,” a boardwalk spanning a
drainage crossing the trail about a thousand
feet south of CTH D in the Brooklyn State Wildlife Area.
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Trekkers and
Trail Angels
Most of the four Dane County residents
who completed the IAT in 2013 at some
point relied on help from a trail angel,
someone with knowledge of the local
trail conditions willing to offer advice and
perhaps other assistance, such as a shuttle,
a bit of companionship, a meal or perhaps
even a bed to hikers from outside the local
area.
Tess Mulrooney is the only local trail
angel currently listed on the chapter’s web
page (http://dane.iceagetrail.org/), and she
agreed to offer help last April after several
members of the Lakeshore chapter assisted
her during her own quest to complete the
whole trail. So far, she has had five calls, all
from people she has hiked with previously.
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The Ice Age Drift
Volunteers Cited,
Officers Selected
Spouses Bob Kaspar and Jeannine Wahlquist, Madison, were honored
as the chapter’s recipients of the 2013 In the Mud awards at the IATA
annual conference in April.
Both have worked hard at statewide trail building events during the past
several years. Many may recognize Kaspar as the Mobile Skills Crew
tool manager, and a few might also recognize his voice as belonging to
The Folk Anarchist, an occasional volunteer program host on WORTFM.
The In the Mud award recognizes IATA member volunteers who display
dedication to its mission and goals and a willingness to roll up their
sleeves on behalf of the trail, including consistently helping on workdays
and diving into the dirty work.
Several other volunteers who donated most of their time on chapter
workdays also were recognized under the National Park Service’s
Volunteers in Parks Program for hours contributed through September
30, 2013.
Gary Werner, Madison, became the first Dane County member to
amass over 4000 hours since VIP tracking began in 2007. Mark Jeffries,
Dave Jenkins, Dave Lonsdorf and Tom Wise all eclipsed the 3000 hour
mark, while Jon Bishop passed the 1000 hour threshold.
A total of 19 chapter members received one-year federal recreational
lands passes for contributing at least 250 hours in the last federal
fiscal year. Nearly 6750 hours were donated on chapter events in
addition to Dane chapter members’ contributions to statewide activities.
Documented donated labor encourages tax dollar support for the trail by
demonstrating public support.
At the chapter’s annual meeting in January, Tom Gross was selected
as coordinator, and Wise as the chapter’s co-coordinator for 2014. Anne
Helsley-Marchbanks was re-elected treasurer. Deb Diller agreed to fill
the vacant secretary position about a month later.
Thousand-Milers continued from Page 1
campers as one of its most attractive aspects.
Wildenradt geared for backpacking only after finishing the trail. He stayed
at improved campgrounds near the trail on about half of his multiday trips
and at motels on the rest. He was the only one of the four to hike both the
established trail/road route through Columbia and Marquette counties plus
the western bifurcation route in Juneau and Adams counties, adding over
100 miles to his trip.
Why bother with hiking the connecting roads (besides getting ThousandMiler recognition) if you’re a section hiker and aren’t using your feet to get to
the next section?
“The point was to see Wisconsin close up along rural roads instead of
from 55-65 mile-per-hour highways,” Kaufmann said, echoing answers from
several others. And Wildenradt singled out the western bifurcation, which is
mostly road walking, as his favorite time on the trail. It seemed every passing
driver waved at me, he noted.
All the section hikers developed preferred ways to return to their vehicles
when walking alone or unable to leave a car at a planned exit point.
Kaufmann, who mostly hiked alone, used a bicycle to shuttle to or from his
Summer 2014
car. In some hilly places, the bike shuttle took more effort than the
hike.
After exploring Devil’s Lake and other nearby segments, Wildenradt
equipped his vehicle with a hitch and bought a trailer and the “Ice Age
Cruiser,” a moped for shuttling. Conversely, Mulrooney favored out
and back hiking when traveling solo because she liked experiencing
trail segments from both directions.
McManus adopted “Valderi” as her trail name from the refrain of
The Happy Wanderer. The choice was perhaps a bit ironic given
the extensive advance planning and organizing required for throughrunning. A family member or friend dropped her at her trailhead at
the start of each day, resupplied her at road crossings several times
during the day, and picked her up at day’s end.
She got the idea of running the IAT from friend Jason Dorgan of Mt.
Horeb, the trail’s only other through runner, who averaged 47 miles a
day when he covered it in 22 days and six hours in 2007. Dorgan also
served as her support crew for one day of her trip.
McManus is a freelance travel and fitness writer who intends to sell
articles promoting the IAT and her experience on it. Writing a guide
book for Spain’s Via de la Plata pilgrimage trail is one of her ongoing
projects. For her, the IAT was both epic adventure and a business
opportunity close to home and established customers.
While McManus planned to complete the trail from the very start of
her trip, becoming a thousand-miler was a goal that evolved gradually
for several others. Mulrooney, a project manager, committed herself
after already logging about 200 miles, while Wildenradt, whose field
is internet technology, worked himself into shape in the hills of Devil’s
Lake and the surrounding area before deciding to tackle the whole
trail.
Both Mulrooney and Wildenradt arranged to hike with others more
frequently during the course of their journeys, and sometimes hiked in
the same group. At times, Mulrooney walked by herself because she
couldn’t coordinate travel with another person, but she also described
the solo out and backs as “lonely.” Wildenradt originally planned
to hike solo, but a chance meeting with someone from the informal
Thousand-Miler Wannabe group changed his style. Joining these
“crazy hikers” who were “going everywhere on the trail” always made
for more interesting shuttles, chats and hiking, and helped turn every
weekend into an adventure for him.
Kaufmann, an executive assistant for the IATA in Cross Plains,
became intrigued by the trail while growing up in West Bend. As
a student and Hoofers Outing Club member at UW-Madison, he
volunteered for trail building projects and became a volunteer crew
leader before joining the IATA staff several years ago. He decided to
hike the whole trail while rebounding from a medical condition, and
started in May of 2009.
Four years later, Kaufmann backpacked 27 miles in Langlade
County on his 27th birthday with Dave Caliebe, a 2010 through hiker
and fellow IATA staffer. Later in 2013 he walked Waukesha County 46
miles end to end in 17 hours under daypack, plus five miles more to
finish a 50+ mile day.
Kaufmann, Mulrooney and Wildenradt all walked more miles in 2013
than any other year in part because they wanted to be among the first
100 to travel the whole trail. All made it. Finishing November 30,
Kaufman became the 91st and last person to complete the trail.
Besides the four Dane County thousand-milers, seven others from
elsewhere in the state finished the trail last year. Their remembrances
of their treks soon will be available at http://www.iceagetrail.org/
thousand-milers. Stories of many of those who became thousandmilers from 2007-2012 are there now. McManus’ daily journal of her
through run is at http://epiciceagetrail.blogspot.com.
Summer 2014
Dane County Chapter
Contacts
Officers and Newsletter
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Springfield Hill MSC
Volunteers Readying for Fall Trail
Building Project In Northern Dane County
Tom Gross, Coordinator,
608 347-5154
[email protected]
Tom Wise, Co-coordinator
608 843-8053
[email protected]
which is leased for agriculture,
abuts Ballweg Road on the
west and lies just north of the
barely-recognizable right of
way for old Highway 12.
Deb Diller, Secretary
[email protected]
Anne Helsley-Marchbanks,
Treasurer
608 695-3479
[email protected]
Preparations for this Mobile
Skills Crew project are well
underway already. Ed Spoon
led five workdays last fall
and winter to clear brush and
undesirable trees from along
what now is merely a flagged
route.
Dave Jenkins, Ice Age Drift Editor,
608 836-8879
[email protected]
Troy Theis, Layout Editor
Trail Monitors
In March, Spoon and several
IATA staff also hosted about 20
environmental studies students
from Middleton High School on
a service learning outing that
included more brush clearing
and burning at the site.
Dave Lonsdorf led about 60
Blackhawk Church volunteers
in clearing more corridor on
May 4.
Greg Armstrong,
Hwy PD to Flagstone Dr,
608 234-8025,
[email protected]
Andrew Bent, Table Bluff,
University Ridge, Montrose,
608 333-9896
[email protected]
Tom Gross, Cross Plains
Dave Lonsdorf, Verona-S
(Prairie Moraine CP to Verona Rd),
608 212-1135
[email protected]
Ed Spoon, Verona-N
(Verona Rd. to McKee Rd.),
608 279-1939,
[email protected]
Dan Wallace, Brooklyn SWA,
608 835-5144
[email protected]
Photo by Dave Caliebe
About 20 environmental studies students and several teachers from Middleton High
School helped clear and pile brush at the Springfield Hill property on a March 13
service learning day in preparation for an upcoming trail building project. Here
several of them add to a burn pile.
Volunteer trail builders from around the state will
gather near Springfield Hill in the Town of Roxbury
October 22-26 to build the first piece of off road
tread between Indian Lake County Park and Lodi
Marsh State Wildlife Area.
The trail will be built on about 118 acres of
undeveloped county park property located
northwest of Springfield Hill’s crest. The land, part of
Spoon, who is the chapter’s
liaison for the Springfield Hill
project, is leading another
corridor clearing workday September 27, and more
prep work may be needed before tread-making in
October.
The last major trail construction in Dane County
occurred in May of 2012, when an MSC project
finished work on the Montrose Segment northeast
of Belleville.
Tom Wise, Valley View
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can quickly recapture areas that
were cleared
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A 21-mile supported hike along the Ice Age Trail in southern Dane County
tedious, labor-intensive handwork. Moreover, prairies and oak
on June 1 will mark National Trails Day for the second straight
year
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savannas
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periodic
money to support the Ice Age Trail Alliance both locally and around
the state. scouted
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A 21-mile supported hike along the Ice Age Trail in southern Dane County on Saturday,
routes
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pose less
threat.
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Roadbetween
(PD)
May 31, will celebrate National Trails Day a week early and raise money to support the Ice
Gary Werner, Co-coordinator
just west of its signaled intersection with High Point Road onFrenchtown
the southwest Road. Here they look
Age Trail Alliance both locally and around the state.
Despite this spring’s success at Lodi, chapter volunteers
side of Madison. It goes to the south end trailhead in the Brooklyn
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Green County line. It will travel north through the wildlife area Young’s
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8 a.m.
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get
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The Dane County chapter
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their cars for the day. After the hike ends at about 4:30 p.m., the chapter will
prescribed
fire
program.
All
of the chapter’s prescribed fire
The
$50
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includes
a
one-year
membership
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the
IATA.
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are
members
may give the membership to a friend. To raise additional money, participant
volunteers have passed a T
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for potential
routes
on outings
November andand
December.
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contracted fire personnel.
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corridor
before
construction
begins with a statewide building
mid-morning
mid-afternoon
waterclearing
and snack
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is providing
incentive
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those
obtaining pledges,
hike,
but hikers
will need
to arrange
their own
transportation
from
there.
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and are qualified to lead burns.
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for raising
$500
or more.
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top fundraiser
also
gets
to choose
any
Tilley River
hat. valley and surrounding
nants.
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high
points
afford
excellent
long
views
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the
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