Love this! Hiking is sooooooo under-rated for runners. Varying terrain, and slower pace does much for your body as soul. I have done the Holy Hill segment, but it's been years and it was in the dark. Your description of it makes me want to go back to it, and soon.
A friend of mine used to hold a fat ass called "Holy Funk" which included Holy Hill and Funk Road. It was a 100K, and it started at midnight. I always opted for about 50K, so I finished in the dark... never having seen all your wonderful site descriptions.
(Side story, Funk Rd doesn't exist anymore, and legend had it that the road sign was getting stolen all the time. I mean, who wouldn't want a sign in your basement bar, "Funk Rd?"Since the Road was named after Bob Funk, a long time Ice Age chapter leader, I asked him about it at one of the meetings. He confirmed. They had to change the name, and since no one lived on the road, it was easy to do. Still, to have a Road named after you, as an honor to your work on the Ice Age was probably pretty special. It's such a shame, because the name was so iconic).
I did not know the Funk Road lore! I was aware of Funk Road and even the Holy Funk but I didn't know that the name changed or that it was named after someone involved in the IAT. That's really interesting!
We used to do an annual Trail Sisters trip to the Holy Hill segment in October to catch the fall colors there, but it is truly beautiful this time of the year too. I highly recommend traversing it in the daylight - there's so much to see and appreciate.
I love the Ice Age Trail! I recently did some volunteer trail building on the Blue Hills reroute and then wrote an article for my local paper. My yellow blaze photo looks a lot like your yellow blaze photo.
This is very cool!
Love this! Hiking is sooooooo under-rated for runners. Varying terrain, and slower pace does much for your body as soul. I have done the Holy Hill segment, but it's been years and it was in the dark. Your description of it makes me want to go back to it, and soon.
A friend of mine used to hold a fat ass called "Holy Funk" which included Holy Hill and Funk Road. It was a 100K, and it started at midnight. I always opted for about 50K, so I finished in the dark... never having seen all your wonderful site descriptions.
(Side story, Funk Rd doesn't exist anymore, and legend had it that the road sign was getting stolen all the time. I mean, who wouldn't want a sign in your basement bar, "Funk Rd?"Since the Road was named after Bob Funk, a long time Ice Age chapter leader, I asked him about it at one of the meetings. He confirmed. They had to change the name, and since no one lived on the road, it was easy to do. Still, to have a Road named after you, as an honor to your work on the Ice Age was probably pretty special. It's such a shame, because the name was so iconic).
I did not know the Funk Road lore! I was aware of Funk Road and even the Holy Funk but I didn't know that the name changed or that it was named after someone involved in the IAT. That's really interesting!
We used to do an annual Trail Sisters trip to the Holy Hill segment in October to catch the fall colors there, but it is truly beautiful this time of the year too. I highly recommend traversing it in the daylight - there's so much to see and appreciate.
I love the Ice Age Trail! I recently did some volunteer trail building on the Blue Hills reroute and then wrote an article for my local paper. My yellow blaze photo looks a lot like your yellow blaze photo.
I have quite a collection of yellow blaze photos on my phone, that’s for sure. Thank you for pitching in with trail building!