Forty-four miles in one pair of socks.
Dan walks the Ice Age Trail from Glenbeulah south through the northern Kettle Moraine to Mauthe Lake on Friday night, and back. He might sleep at the lake. He might keep walking. Same pair of Wigwam alpaca socks the whole way.
Results Saturday. Dead or alive.
On the trail, headed south. Mile 0.5 of 43.6, as of 4:26 pm (10 min ago).
- Walked
- 0.5 mi
- To go
- 43.1 mi
- On foot
- 0:15
- Pace
Make your call
When is he back at Glenbeulah? Does he sleep? Two notes by email come with it: the start, and the finish with the verdict on the socks. Then nothing.
No calls on the board yet.
The socks
Wigwam Alpaca Ultra Mid-Crew, charcoal. One pair, start to finish, with a check on the feet along the way and an honest word on how they held up.
fine hot spot blister damp
The whole walk
About 2,400 ft of climbing each way, 942 to 1,243 ft
Waning gibbous, 59% lit, up from 10:26 pm. The dark sits on the miles it will fall on, at his pace. Solid bubbles are Dan's own posts; dashed ones are this page talking about his progress.
From the trail
Fri 4:23 pm · mile 0.4
Into the woods I go; to lose my mind and gain my soul.
Cheers
The first one is yours.
The map runs 10 minutes behind the watch, on purpose, and shows only the trail: nothing from before the start, nothing off the route, and a stop by name. Miles are measured along OpenStreetMap's line for the Ice Age Trail, not added up from a wobbling GPS. The Ice Age Trail Alliance's own map puts the Greenbush and Parnell segments at 22.4 miles together, so the count here runs about half a mile short each way. Climbing is from USGS bare-earth elevation, lidar where it has been flown, read every 10 m. Sun and moon times are the US Naval Observatory's, for the middle of the route.