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Hike-a-Segment Programs

Would you like to be a Traprock Trekker, Superior Lobetrotter or Walk the Wauker? These are three of the awards you can earn along the Ice Age Trail by completing all of the Trail miles that lie within a participating chapter’s geographical area of responsibility.

Just complete a registration form, available from the chapters listed below, and mail it in with the nominal fee. Maps, hiking information and a hiking log will be mailed back to you. Simply log your progress, send it back to the chapter and you will receive a recognition and an award.

Traprock Trekkers — Indianhead Chapter

Superior Lobetrotters — Superior Lobe Chapter

Glacial Drifters — Baraboo Hills and Lodi Valley chapters

Walk Across Rock County — Rock County Chapter

Walk the Wauk — Waukesha/Milwaukee County Chapter

Hall of Kamers — Lakeshore Chapter

Thousand-Miler Hiker Recognition

Plan on hiking the entire Ice Age Trail? Become a Thousand-Miler so we may honor your feat … and your feet! It doesn’t matter if you hike it all in one trip or segment by segment over time. Once you’ve completed the journey, submit the application below.

Recognized Thousand-Milers will:

• Have their name read at a statewide Ice Age Trail event
• Receive a Thousand-Miler certificate and patch
• Have their name printed in Mammoth Tales magazine
• Have their name added to the official database of Ice Age Trail Thousand-Milers

With regard to Thousand-Milers, the Ice Age Trail Alliance operates on the honor system, assuming that applicants for Thousand-Miler status have hiked all thousand-plus miles of the Ice Age Trail between Potawatomi and Interstate state parks. Hiking all segments of connecting roads is necessary to qualify. Issues of sequence, direction, speed, length of time or whether one carries a pack or not are not considered. Please respect these standards as they are essential to the integrity of the true achievement of being a Thousand-Miler. Most importantly…happy hiking!

Click here to download the Thousand-Miler application

To read more about the program and for features on the 2009 crop of Thousand-Milers, check out our 2009 Thousand-Miler Tribute document.

Note: The term "Thousand-Miler" is used as a matter of convenience — no one knows the exact length of the future, completed Ice Age Trail. Changing the designation of this recognition each time the length changes would be impractical.

Resources for Long-Distance Hikers

Planning and research are key aspects of successful long-distance hiking on the Ice Age Trail, whether your goal is participating in a chapter Hike-a-Segment program or becoming a Thousand-Miler.

In addition to the official record of the Ice Age Trail recorded in our two guidebooks, the Ice Age Trail Atlas and Ice Age Trail Companion Guide, members of our long-distance hiking community have developed and maintain many helpful "unofficial" resources to aid fellow hikers. Examples of these resources include:

• Mileage-tracking spreadsheets designed specfically for long-distance hikers.
• "Insider tips" on town services, resupply info and camping options.
• A database of other long-distance hikers currently navigating the Ice Age Trail.

If you are interested in getting plugged in to these resources and the Ice Age Trail long-distance hiker community, send us an email (info@iceagetrail.org) or give us a call (800-227-0046) and we can put you in touch with one of our avid long-distance hikers.