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Varied Terrain & Great Trails Combine In Jackson County
Story & photos by John T . Prusak ; First published in the November 2011 issue of Snow Goer magazine
One of the first , truly important things I learned in 1986 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was that people from Illinois were to be called one of two things : The least vulgar term was “ flatlanders .” I won ’ t share the other one in print .
I found it an amusing term , coming from Wisconsinites . I mean , really , it ’ s not like Wisconsin is ever going to be confused with Colorado or even Vermont when it comes to the rugged nature of its landscape . In fact , when crossing the state diagonally on I-94 , there ’ s only one short stretch that could be considered geologically dynamic .