The next regular business meeting of the Dane County Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance will be held Monday, August 28, 2023 (that’s next week Monday) at 6:30 pm, at the park shelter at Badger Prairie County Park in Verona.  Business usually wraps up by 8:15 pm.

I’d like to invite you all to our first in-person chapter meeting since January, 2020.  We’ve been zooming our chapter meetings since I got up the nerve to test Zoom in the spring of 2020.  We’ve done alright, but we get the same folks every meeting, and I hope that a personal invitation will attract a few new faces to the ranks of those of us who show up all the time.

At our regular business meetings, we get reports from all the committees that we have, including stewardship and trail builders.  The trail folks have a bunch of potential trail improvements to report, including a big mobile skills crew project in October near Cross Plains, and the stewardship folks put a lot of work in every week to make the trail and its surrounding lands as natural as they can make it.  We should also have reports on the upcoming hike-a-thon and other fun stuff.

If 6:30 conflicts with dinner, bring it along.  If it conflicts with dessert, bring it.  If it conflicts with consumption of post-dinner refreshments, bring them, along with a designated driver if necessary.

The shelter is a few feet from the Ice Age Trail, between Maple Grove Drive, just off East Verona Avenue, and the Verona Public Library.  I plan to put up Ice Age Trail Event signs at both ends of the park road, along with a sign at the parking lot next to the shelter.  Zoom in on the Google Map below for details.

Happy trails,

Bob Kaspar, Coordinator

Dane County Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance