The Northwoods Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance is honoring Phil Schaefer for his tirelss efforts in the development of the miles of cross county ski trails in the Underdown Recreation Area in Lincoln County and for his volunteer work on the Ice Age Trail. The Aldo Leopold style bench has been placed along the Ice Age Trail overlooking beautiful Mist Lake. The dedication will take place on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 10:00 a.m at the bench site. The Schaefer family will be presented a commorative plaque honoring Phil. The dedication site is one half mile from the Mist Lake Access parking lot and will require a half hour hike on a fairly level logging road. Plan to be at the parking lot at 9:30 a.m.. The Mist Lake access road leaves Horn Lake road. For detailed directions contact Tom Goltz at 715-675-6743 or Chris Schotz at 715-873-4113. The public is invited to share in the memories of Phil's contributions.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Phil Schaefer Memorial Dedication
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Tomahawk CycloCross November 12th
Hogsback Cross Attack
November 12, 2011
Bradley Park - Tomahawk
Registration starting at 8am with racing at 10am
Register with form attached to this email or link at the website
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Trail Building Season
•Come on out and help with some fun projects.
•October 8th:
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- Octoberfest clean-up with some sweet new switchbacks
- Re-route trail T connector from U with some cool rollers
- Berm up trail U in the clear cut
•Drive to Underdown Lake in the morning: From 17 take Heineman Road west to Horn Lake Road (not marked unfortunately) and then the Underdown Lake access road. We'll be there early and all morning. Bring rakes and your favorite McLeod\mattock type tool.
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•October 9th:
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- Extend trail J past the Homestead with about 10 more turns & berms.
•Take the east end of Loop Road from Copper Lake Road. Bring rakes and your favorite McLeod\Mattock type tool.
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•October 29th 5PM:
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- Ghost Ride
- Rhinelander vs. Wausau Capture the Flag or something like that
- Night Polo
- Spooks
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Work Together
The Underdown Horse Club recently opened a difficult trail for themselves near White Lightning (Trail I) and a trail they call the Moonshine Trail near the homestead (Trail J). With my cooperation they pulled up signs and moved the Moonshine Trail to a new route off of the bike trail. I actually helped build horse trail today, but it is a lot easier that re-building bike trail and I felt that both groups should have a chance to pass the historic Underdown homestead.
99% of horse riders respect the bike trails and are embarrassed when a horse does damage to a bike trail. I am equally embarrassed when bikers don't use their heads. Because both user groups have separate trail systems so it is rare that you will see a horse out in the woods, but make sure that you slow way down and greet them when you see a horse on a road. I don't want to hear any more about bikers blowing by little girls on ponies in the parking lot.
On October 8th we'll still be cleaning and berming on Oktoberfest starting at Underdown Lake in the morning whenever you can get there, but on October 9th there will be work to do by the homestead. On that morning you will have the opportunity to extend the Homestead Trail another hundred yards or so to a safer exit, plus we'll be doing erosion prevention between White Lightning and the Homestead.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Oktoberfest Work Day
Saturday October 8th AM
Meet at Underdown Lake to clean up the log job on Oktoberfest (really not that bad) and possibly build some berms on trail U.
In the mean time, mowing and tree clearing is ongoing. Trail M & MM around the Hollow were mowed to night.
Post a comment with the location of any downed trees you've come across. I know a bunch went down during the Wausau24 storm.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Try Trail V
A few of the trails that weren't on the race course have been mowed recently. All this rain continues to make the brush grow fast. Go out and try something new, and save next Saturday for the Washburn race by Rhinelander. Great stuff.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Raspberry Weekend
I unfortunately won't be there, but the trails and roads are open if you want to come out for some dirt road riding at 10AM Saturday or some Sunday raspberry picking on Trail C.
Logging Oktoberfest
Logging on the Oktoberfest and Underdown Lake area is underway. It looks like the loggers are being rather gentle with the trail so we'll have to clean up instead of rebuild. If logging machines are running, don't try to sneak past them. It might be best to avoid the area for a few weeks. Remember that the loggers are working and you are playing.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Rhinelander Wins Thunderdown Cup
In a momentous group effort the crew from Rhinelander took the 2011 Thunderdown Cup home to reside at Bikes N Boards. 14 hodags logged a total of 295 miles on a beautifully hot day.
Wausau riders accumulated a total of 116 miles and were left shaking their heads in awe at the tenacity of hodags on tough trails.A new Cup will be commissioned for 2012. Word has it that the Duluth boys will roster up next year as long as Eki can convince Charlie that conditions aren't too perfect in the Underdown. Those boys love a good, long fight in foul weather, and they don't mind a little hamburger butt either.
A couple things I learned this year regarding next year:
1. This course is long enough! I think I've found the sweet spot with this year's format. Though there is a nice symmetry to a 25 mile lap, I'm starting to think that adding 9 miles that didn't make the cut this year might be the end. On a course that long I may never see you again.
2. People like cold water on course. Expect more bottles on ice next year.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
This Way
The sign is a little different this year. At the top of the X to C hill, the 9 mile course goes down the double track to the trail X cutoff. The 16 mile course stays on single track C to Dog Lake and beyond. 
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Race Course Map
"16 mile" course (10 solo, 10 duo, 6 solo): Marked in Green. Much like last year minus Mist Lake and trail V.
"9 mile" course (10 team, 6 duo, 3 hour, high school): Uses Red trail X cutoff. Much like last year, but with an earlier cut off on top of the X&C hill.
Over 150' of new bridge since the last Thunderdown.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Free Camping and Entry
We're in need of a team to camp at Underdown Lake and run an aid station in exchange for one free individual entry. Post a comment here if you are interested.
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