Wisconsin area events- COMING SOON! Lower Wisconsin River kayak camping trip! July 25-27

It's always a pleasure to have you along! Thank you for dinner yesterday! That was very generous of you!

 

Glad y'all had a good time over there

 

Hey Dennis, it was a blast, thanks for the tip!

 

A little dusty, a little scratchy!

 

It's nice to have more than one spot ! Glad you liked it.

 

A good weekend in the books once again! Hope everyone enjoyed themselves, until the next time.

 

PSA reminder to check for ticks!

I found one today.

 

One on me when I got home...it got escorted down the drain. Total of 6 for the weekend, no deer ticks this year.

 

Carlos, Dave and I had some fun adventures after leaving Bear Paw. Carlos showed us Cathedral of the Pines. Really beautiful old growth forest. Then we took a long walk through my old hunting grounds north of hwy 8 between Laona and Crandon. That was cool for me to see after about 15 years since I was last there. I was happy to see it's being well maintained, even if it was gated and we couldn't ride in. We found a neat wildlife viewing area at Knowles Creek, but didn't see a lot of wildlife.

Dave headed back home after that and then we saw wildlife! A couple deer and then we turned a corner and saw a very large black bear in on the gravel road. He gave us a long look and then casually sauntered back into the woods. Soon after, a deer ran across the road not that far in front of Carlos.

Now we're at a great little campsite Carlos stayed at last year. He didn't realize it then, but there is a pretty little babbling stream maybe 40 yards down a path from the site. There's also a weird partial enclosure protected by an electric fence. Signs say it's for a protected species of turtle. We didn't see any. I want to learn more about this.

All together an amazing weekend! Trying to post pics from today and having signal issues. I'll get some up tomorrow.

 

Guys,
Check your air filter.
This was mine Sunday morning. I had a new with me to change out be for heading home.

 

Good call! I just need to start budgeting for a new air filter at every one of these things, lol.

 

It was a serious dust bowl!

 

You don't need a spotter if you have Alf in your back window and the tunes cranked.

 

4Runner-$36,300
'lil buddy Alf- $12 + shipping
2 weeks experience in Moab- priceless
I was concerned about getting up that obstacle after seeing the trouble everybody else had, even the guys with lockers. I got to see the problem areas before my attempt and adjusted (i.e. guessed) my lines accordingly. I probably wouldn't have cleared it if I was one of the first ones up.

 

Go get 'em Honey Badger!

 

I'm going to try it without a spotter next month, probably. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Of the 4 times I've attempted the rock garden at the pipeline, I've made it up twice on my own without getting stuck, and gotten stuck twice with spotters.

To be fair, I don't always follow directions very well.

 

I didn't have any trouble with the hard part and then just had to do a slider flex pose for you guys.

 

So your new sliders are now "broken in". Time to stock up on black spray paint!

 

From yesterday...

 

This is the one that we saw, it was right on Bucks Road. Earlier this morning I saw another black bear that was even bigger than this one, east of Wabeno on Hwy C. It look very well fed!