Ice Age Trail Mobile Skills Crew Trailbuilding - Rib Lake

Friday, Sep 18, 2015 - 5:00 pm through Sunday, Sep 20, 2015 - 5:00 pm

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Leader: Connie Lane

Event Information

Description: 14 September 2015: This trip is now closed....no more sign ups.

We'll go build Ice Age Trail at Rib Lake with the Ice Age Trail Alliance. Rib Lake is about 3 hours NW of Madison. We'll head up after school/work on Friday afternoon and return Sunday late afternoon.

The Ice Age Trail is a National Scenic Trail and a part of the National Park System. The Ice Age Trail Alliance is the organization that directs construction and maintenance of the trail. When completed, the trail will be about 1100 miles long. There is currently around 650 miles of completed trail. For now, that is all you need to know, except that Outing Club members have been helping construct the trail for ten years. Once the UW is back in session, we'll have an Intro to the Ice Age Trail evening.

This trailbuilding session at Rib Lake will be a "Mobile Skills Crew Event", and ultimately involve several hundred volunteers. We'll join them and help build trail Saturday and Sunday. Once our work is done Sunday at noon, we'll hike the new segment and then head back to Madison.

To participate in this trip, you need to take these actions:

1. sign up here with Hoofers so that I can organize the group and contact everyone who signs up;
2. sign up with the Ice Age Trail Alliance so that they can provide you with excellent meals and camping. The link to sign up is below, but please, if this is your first time building trail, talk to me at a Tuesday night meeting before you sign up;
3. fill in info on a Google Doc link that I send to everyone signed up for the trip a couple of weeks before we go. I will use the info you give me to organize rides and tents.

What you need to provide:
1. your sleeping bag;
2. your personal items - towel, soap, toothbrush, etc. The Alliance always provides a place to shower or swim, and you will be getting dirty!
3. clothing, including a jacket and raingear if it looks like it could rain. DO NOT plan to wear good outdoor, technical clothes to build trail. For working in the daytime, wear ratty old clothes. If you don't have any, talk to me. Bring a jacket and some warm clothes for hanging around the evening campfire;
4. adult beverages. I will have a cooler if you need to store said beverages.
5. a good attitude.
6. money for dinner on Friday on the way up if you wish to eat out, or something to eat if you don't want to eat out. Alternatively, eat before the group meets to depart.

What the club provides:

1. transportation costs. As part of the desire of the club and the Memorial Union for Hoofers to perform community service, the club will pay for gas to official Trailbuiding events. This is great! I especially hope that some of you students who try to stay on a budget will decide to come build trail. You will have a good time, see some pretty places, perform some community service and not have to spend any money.....
2. sleeping pads to go under bags, BUT NOT the bags. You have to provide your bag.
3. tent space. If you don't have a tent, we''ll get one over your head and under your sleeping bag.

Here is a link if you want to learn more about the trail and the Alliance that builds it:

http://www.iceagetrail.org/

Here is the link to sign up for food and camping for this weekend trip:

http://www.iceagetrail.org/event/mobile-skills-crew-trailbuilding-event-taylor-county/

I hope to get both some new folks and some veterans up to Rib Lake!

Connie
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Registration Count

Registration Type	Registrations	Remaining
All Participants	8	1