Issue #334 June 14, 2017
Charity Classic levels up with food trucks and live music
Barbara Arnold, photos by Andrea Paulseth
Run, walk, bike, do whatever you need to do to get yourself over to Phoenix Park on Saturday, June 24 for Rock the Riverfront featuring the Charity Classic. This year for the first time ever, the Royal Credit Union Foundation is turning the Charity Classic – its longstanding annual, early morn charitable run/walk ...
Issue #334 June 14, 2017
reluctant runner follows in her mother's footsteps – and her socks, too
Madeline Gray
I ran a marathon in my mother’s socks ...
Issue #334 June 14, 2017
new gym sets fire to metabolisms, adds to downtown Eau Claire growth
Tom Giffey, photos by Andrea Paulseth
The fitness professionals behind Eau Claire’s FitELITE want to light a fire under your workout regimen with their new gym in downtown Eau Claire ...
Issue #332 May 17, 2017
Audubon Society event includes field trips, lectures
Emily Kinzel
Take part in a nature-filled weekend from June 2-4 with speakers, birdwatching, canoeing, and much more. They Gaylord Nelson Audubon Society is hosting the annual Chippewa Valley Nature Festival ...
Issue #332 May 17, 2017
Erickson Park will have accessible fishing pier, boat launch
Tom Giffey
By next year, a vacant piece of land across from Chippewa Falls’ famed Irvine Park will be transformed into a new park complete with a handicapped-accessible fishing pier and boat launch, a family area and pavilion ...
Issue #331 May 2, 2017
the first morning of fishing season is usually cold, but the memories formed couldn’t be warmer
Justin Patchin, photos by Justin Patchin
The opening weekend of walleye fishing season is practically a state holiday where I grew up in northern Minnesota. And I suspect the same is true for many folks here in western Wisconsin. I rarely miss an opportunity to get together with my dad to fish “the opener” ...
Issue #331 May 2, 2017
a Q&A with prolific hiking guidebook author Rob Bignell
Maggie Cook, Ron Bignell
There’s just something about getting outside and being one with nature. The sounds. The smells. The fresh air. Not to mention enjoying the great outdoors with the entire family. Insert sounds of a vinyl record screeching ...
Issue #331 May 2, 2017
outdoors or indoors, climbing can be a rigorous adventure
Hannah Mumm
When we think about rock climbing, places like Yosemite or the Rocky Mountains come to mind. Serious climbers don’t waste their time dawdling in the Midwest, right? Of course, California and Colorado ...
Issue #330 April 5, 2017
president of Wisconsin Car Enthusiast Club talks the future of Midwest car collectors
Hillary Bell
A car might be just a car to some people, something to get them to work, to home, and to places in-between, but to the president of the Wisconsin Car Enthusiast Club, Alex Martinez, cars ...
Issue #330 April 5, 2017
why can’t all triathlons be like Float Fly Pie?
Haley Wright
A fantastic evening of fun awaits teams and families alike at the 2nd annual Float Fly Pie Triathlon and Beacon House Fundraiser on April 23 at Action City. The Beacon House (also called Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley) ...
Issue #330 April 5, 2017
if you look hard enough, you can find some amazing wild mushrooms with these helpful tips from the experts
Hannah Mumm
April showers bring May … mushrooms? It’s true. As the weather warms and the snow melts, hundreds of fungi are preparing to break through the forest floor. For Tavis Lynch, a Wisconsin-based mycologist ...
Issue #326 February 8, 2017
as her twin sister – a first-time skier – tackles the American Birkebeiner, writer Katie Venit ponders the very different paths their lives have taken
Katie Venit
Breathless from half-jogging, half-skating from the parking lot, I squeezed between two people ringing cowbells to peer over a rope line. Skiers rounded a bend a few hundred yards away, leaving thick woods behind as the trail straightened into the finish gates ...
Issue #324 January 11, 2017
Brendon Paucek, photos by Andrea Paulseth
Put on your snowshoes and rev up your snowmobiles: The third annual Winter Fest and Games presented by CCF Bank is coming up! From Jan. 27-29 Lake Altoona will be the coolest spot around with a flurry ...
Issue #324 January 11, 2017
Burn Boot Camp opens in Eau Claire
Hannah Mumm
Sonya Pennel wasn’t always in shape. At her largest, the busy mother of three weighed more than 200 pounds ...
Issue #324 January 11, 2017
understanding how your body burns fuel can help you lose weight for good
Kyle Frank
Has weight loss made it on to your list of New Year’s resolutions? Have you tried to drop pounds in the past only to feel like you weren’t making progress? If you answered “yes” to one ...
Issue #324 January 11, 2017
Hot? Cold? Fast? Slow? The valley offers a vast array of yoga options
Christopher Hayden, photos by Andrea Paulseth
Having grown up around here in the 1980s and ’90s, I think I can safely say that the alternative health boom of the ’90s was only distantly echoed in the Valley. Practitioners of yoga, for instance, were few and far between, and yoga schools even fewer and farther ...
Issue #323 December 28, 2016
local nonprofit, volunteers turning vision into reality
Brendon Paucek, photos by Kelsey Smith
The former ski hill at Pinehurst Park has steadily evolved into a fresh and exciting new recreation area. Led by local nonprofit OutdoorMore Inc., Pinehurst Park is on its way to becoming not only ...
Issue #323 December 28, 2016
growing Chippewa youth hockey program has new rink
Tom Giffey
The cliché about Wisconsin weather – wait a few minutes, and it will change – often rings true, even in winter. Sure, it’s usually cold, but warm spells, snow, sleet, and other types of precipitation keep ...
Issue #323 December 28, 2016
Tom Giffey, photos by Andrea Paulseth, Timothy Mather
Winter can be an isolating time, and sometimes even we hearty Wisconsinites need a nudge to break our routines and actually get outside and enjoy the season’s snowy splendor instead of complaining about it. We need motivation to pull on our stocking caps and dig our ice skates out of the closet or even strap on some snowshoes ...
Issue #323 December 28, 2016
Brendon Paucek, photos by Andrea Paulseth
Put on your snowshoes and rev up your snowmobiles: The third annual Winter Fest and Games presented by CCF Bank is coming up! From Jan. 27-29 Lake Altoona will be the coolest spot around with a flurry of events and festivities for winter enthusiasts ...
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