{"id":37,"date":"2010-06-27T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","slug":"june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Trempealeau #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tour de Trempealeau<\/strong> 2010<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the 2nd annual Tour.\u00a0 Trempealeau County is a road rider’s paradise.\u00a0 Fabulous scenery, high quality pavement (mostly), and traffic volumes so low as to make one laugh.\u00a0 Our intrepid riders camped in Perrot State Park, one of the more interesting state parks.\u00a0 The Trempealeau Hotel is nearby and features fine dining, a nice bar, and great views from its deck. Honorable mention goes to Sullivans, the other Trempealeau restaurant.\u00a0 We ate there one night – everyone ordered the pan fried Walleye, and it was the best Walleye ever.<\/p>\n

In attendance this year:\u00a0\u00a0 Tim, Eileen, Guy, Ann, and Sam.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from camp<\/p>\n

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There’s a nice canoe loop right out of Perrot.\u00a0 It takes about an hour to get around it.\u00a0 Water levels were high, there was some current in here to fight.<\/p>\n

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We drove to Ettrick to begin our first day’s ride.\u00a0 In the morning we rode “Loop #6”, a 29.5 mile loop that took us through Blair and Hegg. Note: County Road’s “S” and “C” on the second half had a lot of gravel and tar.\u00a0 It was a somewhat dirty section, and smelled bad too! This was the only bad pavement we saw.<\/p>\n

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The second day’s ride began in Independence. We rode Loop #7.\u00a0 Right when we parked our cars, two locals went by us with a boat on top of their car, no straps or anything holding it down, just the two of them holding it out the window with their hands.\u00a0 They were armed with a bow-and-arrow type fishing rig, for carp.\u00a0 Their paddle of choice was a shovel.\u00a0 (Nice.)\u00a0 Loop #7, called “Ride with the Eagles,\u00a0 is one of the best in the county and features “the longest continuous ridge top” of any of the county rides.<\/p>\n

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The last day’s riding began in Dodge –\u00a0 Loop #15.\u00a0 The section along River Road that parallels the Trempealeau River is particularly sweet.\u00a0 Check out the bluffs along this road!\u00a0 The Wilsons headed on home after the morning ride.\u00a0 Tim, Eileen, and Sam drove up to Arcadia and pedaled loop #7, again<\/p>\n

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The Hankard family came for one night of camping.\u00a0 They snagged a sweet walk-in site.\u00a0 We sat around their camp fire that evening and got pretty much savaged by skeeters and biting flies.\u00a0 Their whole crew kayaked the local canoe trail, and they also rode bikes.\u00a0 Later, Mike did the canoe trail again with Tim and Eileen.<\/p>\n

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Most of us walked up to the top for the view:<\/p>\n

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