Shop the freezer* The conditions for learning* Favorite Sections of the Ice Age Trail*

Shop the Freezer

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Shop-the-freezer weekly challenge

Consider regularly challenging yourself to pull one or two items from the freezer and cook a dish with them. This challenge will help rotate the freezer and you’ll sometimes pull out fully cooked meals, giving you the night off. Plus you’ll likely enjoy the adventure!

First-in, first-out (FIFO) works well in the refrigerator, where food has a shorter shelf-life. With FIFO, you’ll polish off last week’s carton of milk before opening the new carton of milk. You may want to organize your food in the freezer the same way, with the food you froze first at the front and the food you froze later at the back.

The conditions for learning*

Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person "The conditions for learning in psychotherapy"

1. Facing a problem  In the first place it means that significant learning occurs more readily in relation to situations perceived as problems. in my own varying attempts to conduct courses and groups in ways consistent with my therapeutic experience, I have found such an approach more effective, I believe, in workshops that it then in regular courses, in extension courses than in campus courses.

2.  Congruence  (the teacher’s realn-ess) This involves the teachers being the person that he is, and being openly aware of the attitudes he holds. it means that he feels accepted toward his own real feelings. thus he becomes a real person in the relationship with his students. he can be enthusiastic about subjects he likes, and bored by topics he does not like. he can be angry, but he can also be sensitive or sympathetic. because he accepts his feelings as his feelings, he is no need to impose them on his students, or to insist that they feel the same way. he is a person, not a faceless embodiment of a curricular requirement, or a sterile pipe through which knowledge is passed from one generation to the next. 

3.  Unconditional positive regard. A third conditions is that the therapist experiences a warm caring for the client -- a caring which is not possessive, which demands no personal gratification. It is an atmosphere which simply demonstrates "I care"; not "I care for you if you behave thus and so."

4.  An empathetic understanding

5. The client should experience or perceive something of the therapists’s congruence, acceptance, and empathy

Favorite Sections of the Ice Age Trail*

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Jared Wildenradt is likely the most prolific hiker of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail ever, and he doesn't plan to stop anytime soon.

Lisa Siewert teaches geology and geography at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and is in the midst of developing an interactive map of the 1,200-mile footpath that will highlight the geological features of each segment.....

Wildenradt's favorite is Lincoln County's Turtle Rock segment, located north of Merrill. The stretch is just over 5 miles and it "includes a beautiful — and very challenging — trek along, and near, the banks of the Wisconsin River. It's a lightly used segment, where bears are known for knocking down directional sign posts," according to the Ice Age Trail Alliance's virtual segment tour.

Wildenradt loves it because "it has a unique rock that looks like a turtle," a natural attraction that he never fails to check out when he's on the trail.

Conveniently, Wildenradt's second favorite trail segment is next to the Turtle Rock stretch.

"On the other side of Grandfather Falls, we have the Grandfather Falls segment where you can still see rocks being shaped by the river," he said. According to the IAT's segment tour, the segment is four miles long, and in addition to getting a view of Wisconsin River's Grandfather Falls, hikers walk along Ripley Creek and see a hydroelectric plant.

Jared Wildenradt (right) stands at western terminus of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail with his partner Kris Van Handel and their dog, Maisy.

Both the Turtle Rock and Grandfather Falls segments are on the west side of the Wisconsin River, but they can be accessed from parking lots on state Highway 107 on the east side of the river, north of Camp New Wood County Park.

Langlade County is home to the segment that ranks third on Wildenradt's list. It's where he volunteers to help maintain the path as well as hikes it. He's traversed the Kettlebowl segment "many times with a power saw to keep the trail free of windfall trees," he said. "The trail is as wide as a logging trail for the majority of it, but a lot of hikers find it very challenging and remote."

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The Kettlebowl Segment stretches between highways 52 and 64 northeast of Antigo.

Next on Wildenradt's list are the Parish Hills, Harrison Hills and Underdown segments in Lincoln County.

"If you put the three together, you can get a pretty unique backpacking experience. There are even a few shelters along the way," he said.

The trail winds past kettle ponds, Wildenradt said, and the "hills are so big that they have their own hills."

These segments are northeast of Merrill in the Harrison Hills region running along state Highway 17. Parish Hills is east of the highway, and the Harrison Hills and Underdown segments are on the west side.

For a section farther south, Wildenradt recommends the West Bend segment. "In the middle of town there is a Culver's, and if you do it right, you can end your day or have lunch," Wildenradt said. "Nothing like a butter burger and a thick chocolate shake after you've hiked 14 miles."

He likes the hill behind the restaurant, a little glacial feature that rises above a relatively flat area of the state, he said.

The Ice Age Trail segment in West Bend runs along the west side of Highway 45 through town.

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Siewert is developing an Ice Age Trail map that highlights the glacial and geologic features as part of a capstone project for a master's degree in geographic information system and web development. She expects the project will be complete by the end of the year, and the map likely will be available for public use through the Ice Age Trail Alliance after that. Meanwhile, she shared some aspects of the trail she finds most fascinating. Siewert is from Wausau, and one of her top spots on the Ice Age Trail is the segment that runs about 20 miles east of the city, through the Dells of the Eau Claire County Park, 235890 Marathon County Y, Aniwa. Rushing meltwater from the last glacier "carved dramatic channels into some of Wisconsin's oldest rock" there, she said. A segment of the Ice Age Trail winds through the Dells of the Eau Claire River, a scenic state natural area and county park east of Wausau. That rock was formed by volcanoes about 1.8 billion years ago, she said, and it is particularly hard and resilient. That's why it has a kind of hard-edged, cubist look to it. Softer river rock tends to be rounded. The Dells of the Eau Claire also feature potholes, which are deep, round indentations in the rock carved by small rocks, sand and sediment that were swirled by water currents. The potholes are on the smaller side, Siewert said. She recommends that fans of larger potholes visit the western terminus of the Ice Age Trail at Interstate State Park, 1275 Highway 35, St. Croix Falls. The potholes there were ground out by larger rocks, Siewert said. Some of those holes can be six to 10 feet across and 15 feet deep, according to a National Park Service scientific monograph describing some of the geological affects of the glaciers in Wisconsin. Siewert also recommends the Chippewa Moraine segment, a 7.9 mile stretch that "passes through more than 20 kettle lakes and highlights several significant ice-walled plains," according to the IATA. Siewert likes it "because it is a classic example of what happens when glaciers melt and leave behind a messy, scenic landscape." The Chippewa Moraine segment is northeast of Bloomer, running east from state Highway 40. Seiwert lists the segments through the Kettle Moraine State Forest as another top destination. Like the Chippewa Moraine section, the landscape in the Kettle Moraine is punctuated with rolling hills, kettle lakes and eskers, which are "all great markers of glacial activity and are like an open-air museum of Ice Age landforms," Siewert said. Thirty miles of the Ice Age Trail runs through the Kettle Moraine State Forest-Southern Unit, whose headquarters is at S91W39091 Highway 59, Eagle. The forest's northern unit is home to 31 miles of the IAT. The headquarters for that unit is at N1765 County Highway G, Campbellsport. The Devil's Doorway is one of a handful of distinctive rock formations at Devil's Lake State Park near Baraboo. Siewert said another of her favorite Ice Age Trail sections is the Devil's Lake segment in Devil's Lake State Park at S5975 Park Road, Baraboo. There are "billion-year-old quartzite cliffs" there, Siewert said, which were once ancient beaches. Today they "tower above a lake dammed by glacial moraines. It's a beautiful place to see where ancient and recent geologic forces meet."