People regularly ask me, "Are you a thousand-miler?" While I do plan on one day achieving the distinction of hiking the entire Ice Age National Scenic Trail's over 1,000 miles, I joke that my family and I feel like we have hiked the same one-mile stretch a thousand times.
However, every now and again, we do get to venture out to new parts of the trail and today, that led us to a special Tyke Hike in Cross Plains, home of the Ice Age Trail Alliance Headquarters. Here, we celebrated the Alliance's 60th birthday by attending a celebratory Tyke Hike.
In fact, about thirty new friends were there to celebrate with us. After decorating our new walking sticks and creating some special trial binoculars, it was off to the trail.
The girls seemed to like the back and forth up and down beginning portion of the segment though I think it was because they knew they would eventually get to go down - their favorite part. The girls did split up with Embry making new trial friends and Oakley literally trying to touch every rock and root along the way. It was awesome seeing my oldest be a hub of information for the trail. From talking about blazes to identifying plants, she was her on tour guide.
Eventually, the girls did come together to take a banana break, investigate a tree cavity, and make our way back to the Cross Plains Library for a special story time.
Of course, as the librarian shared some picture books and activities, Oakley decided to go on her own "book look," stopping by the biggest moose she has seen to date.
All Tyke Hike attendees received a special Culver's token, so after a nice morning of hiking and enjoying the trail's birthday, we enjoyed a special birthday lunch.
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