“Howdy.” Bryn tosses the greeting and a smile my way no sooner than I closed the door behind me to Bluedog Cycles in Viroqua. The greeting comes natural, the sort of friendliness you will find abundant from people in the Driftless Wisconsin. I look around the store,...
We’ll be talking about those friendly people in our next blog post, but meanwhile, let’s park the car and head into the woods to find some of our other winter’s residents. Check out our hiking page and winter activities to locate some of our favorite off-road places....
“Yep, pretty, isn’t it,” I replied in my all-knowing grandfatherly voice. The Driftless area astonishes us like this during the winter, more so than the similar flatlander experience, perhaps because the unglaciated landscape rises up to greet our eyes. Towering...
The Driftless area is a large peninsula of land, mostly located in Southwest Wisconsin, that went unglaciated throughout the last glacial period, which occurred 10,000 years ago. The word “driftless’ simply refers to the fact that this area lacks glacial drifts. It’s...
