Non-Hiking Day 4: Friday, September 6, 2013
Location: Parking area on Mondeaux Ave., just west of the White Birch Trail, Taylor County, WI
This time of year, there really isn’t much hope of driving over an hour from home after work on a Friday and getting in any hiking before dark. So – we headed back out to Taylor County on a Friday night to camp, ready for an early start to another weekend of hard hiking through the Chequamegon. After what we went through with the east end of the Jerry Lake Segment a couple weeks earlier, we really weren’t looking forward to it. We decided we would begin right where we left off, which meant parking at the largish parking area about 0.3 miles north and 0.3 miles west of where we actually wanted to begin, down at the primitive campsite located at the intersection of FR 350 and the Ice Age Trail. The parking area is vastly better for overnight camping than the FR 350 trailhead, which is where we would actually drop a vehicle in the morning.
Unfortunately, we discovered too late that we didn’t bring the right air mattress with us for the van. We brought the queen-size instead of the twin, so we had a really interesting time sleeping in the middle of a clamshell balloon pushing up and out on both sides. On the whole, it wouldn’t have been too bad, but it was incredibly hot for September, and we ended up sleeping with the windows and doors open in the van. Could have been worse. At least there was no poison ivy this time. No miles hiked: Running total: 150.9 miles of trail covered; 8.8 miles ‘extra’ hiking/biking. End of non-hiking day 4.
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