77 FALL 2019 ISSUE 01 / VOL . 01
SNOWGOER . COM 78 enough fresh powder to make this an especially fun start to the day . All bordering tree branches held snow , the pine boughs in particular looking weighed down by the fresh load . Dick took one path to another , weaving us through this snow-covered paradise but staying north of the National Forest and sticking to county land . Next we hit a particularly rugged section of land , with narrow , choppy , intersecting hills of varying levels of steepness . The area looked like it had been logged out at some point in the past 10 years , but new growth was starting to fill in and occasional tall , leftover pine trees stood here and there , looking like watchtowers .
We worked our way north and east and soon popped out into a wonderful little play area with deep , virgin powder . We tested our skills and the capabilities of our short-tracked sleds while Dick sat and watched us get stuck and unstuck — he proclaimed himself a combination of too old and too smart to partake in such buffoonery . Most visitors to the area would have never found this cubbyhole of untouched powder on county land , illustrating the benefits of riding with a person with local knowledge .
We told Dick that we really should see at least some of the trails and a bit of Lake Superior , so we took the interesting Trail 1 across the northern part of the peninsula — it featured plenty of twists and turns and rolling hills . We followed along wooden fence lines , saw a couple of whitetail deer , dipped into some valleys , across some beautiful little bridges and found some higher speed sections of trail where we could let the sleds breathe a little bit . This is also where we were reminded of the fabulous trail marking system found across Wisconsin ’ s Northwoods , with intersections marked by big signs telling visitors not only which towns and services were in any direction , but also the distance to each of those landmarks .