lizs' secret DNR hike

“This morning I think, "Man, is it just really cold out, or what?" OK, it was only -8 when I headed to work at 9 a.m. FREAKIN' MINUS 8!!!

OK, my thoughts have turned to spring...... ahhhhh.... nice weather. Time now to think about the "Secret DNR Hike" for then.

hehehhee... I've thought about this one for a bit. It's a point to point. A little connection of some trails on DNR lands that I don't think anyone has thought to put together before.

I'm guessing it would be maybe 6-9 miles. Not very far. Ample time for swimming and/or trout fishing (hmmmm... might be able to incorporate canoes, but it would only be for a couple miles).

Very pretty area. Some good hills (read that to be maybe a couple at 100-400 feet. It's Ioway, remember!!)

*Most* of this trip, you'd be as far from roads as you'll find yourself in Iowa. (much more so that at Yellow River State Forest, Mike!... OK,you do come up on one road, but it's brief. It's a remote one. You come onto it and do a 180 away from it.)

Anyhoooo... anyone curious? (I know you're all chomping at the bit to come backpacking overnight in Iowa....LOL!... NOT!)

But it sounds good to me. Just not in this weather!!”

“I'm there... let me know what the details are.”

“Nullen Void!!! I haven't seen you post here in forever!! Still in the NW part of our fair state??”

“Yeah I'm still here. In the fine Sioux Land area... or as the airport calls it SUX

Had a busy last year between Job hunting getting married and moving 2 times. I'm having backpacking DT's really bad.

I've been lurking, just didn't have time or $$ to get away.

But if you're serious about setting up a trip in this fine state... I'll be there.”

“Yeah, it's freakin' minus 8 and Lizs is thinking about SWIMMING...

What are you? An escapee from the local Polar Bear Club?”

“its 55 deg in sacramento”

“I just want to know why there's a "Do Not Resuscitate" order on this hike...”

“I thought it was "Department of Natural Racehorses".”

“lolololol..... you guys are soooooooooooo funny!!”

“its a 3 dayer for me, I can take friday as a vacation day, do the drive on friday, hike sat, sun and drive home on monday...

Thats the only way I could make the trek up there and be able to spend 2 whole days on the trail/water.”

“Well, you do have the Upper Iowa River. We'd hike along it for a couple miles on the "secret DNR hike."

BUT... if it were a weekend deal, you could also do an overnight canoe trip on the very scenic river in another location. If it were Memorial Day weekend, it would be full of people. This is a river, remember, that was up for "Scenic and Wild" status till local farmers shot that down.

Here's info and VERY PRETTY pics of the Upper Iowa River:

Upper Iowa River

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.... for warm weather to arrive!!!!!!!!!!!”

“lizs, can I come?!? BTW - where is Iowa?”

“DORK! lol

your loss............. hehehe”

“Iowa is that big cornfield between Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Cedar Rapids and Des Moines are towns consisting of corn silos wedged onto rock piles that are not conducive to raising corn. Iowa's state flower is the corn tassel and it's state animal is the corn borer. It's state budget is 6,483,387,391 bushels. Its biggest export is corn and its biggest import is fertilizer. Some Iowa attractions you might want to catch are the Corn Museum, the Corn Festival, the Crowning of the Corn Queen at the Iowa State Homecoming Game, the Corn Olympics (which is being renamed due to naming rights), and the annual Cornstalk Ball.”

“Lizs was the Corn Queen of 1978. There is a photo of her being crowned on Phil's photo site.”

“With so much corning going on there, it must be newgirl's favorite place...”

“I think lizs would be a wicked fine corn queen! Where can I send them fertilizer???”

“Just address it to Fertilizer Commissioner, Iowa State University, Des Moines, Iowa, Wherever the hell that is. It will get there. (Hint: if you write "Hawkeyes rule" with red crayon on the package, you will get really fast delivery)”

“Lizs is gonna come beat me with a cornstalk and stick a corncob where the sun don't shine!”

“Can we get a live webcast of that?”

“Hey, we're in newspapers, not TV!”

“You can read about it in the Corn Exponent.”

“Crazed reporter, defending honor of state and alma mater, beats big city editor senseless.”

“Maybe if they made a corn diorama of the momentous occaision...”

“Having recently visited NE Iowa, I'm worried about a "secret" DNR trip with swimming involved. It's only warm enough to go swimming in late July thru mid August, me thinks! ;-)

But then if you're Norwegian, ....


lol!”

“whats DNR?”

“Lizs ain't talking. She must be sharpening her corn husking knife.”

“i like barbequed(i think this is miss spelled) corn”

“GEOBEET, YOU'RE DEAD SQUIRREL MEAT!!!

LOL!!

Hey, but, chaknow, we do not have the CORN PALACE!!! (me thinks there's been talk of storming Mitchell, SD, to get it, though!)

And as an added bonus on this hike: GEOCACHING!! A muy fabulous cache placed by none other than lizs herself!!! (that right there ought to bring them out in droves!!! LOL!!0”

“I was WORKING... DOH!! Creating some .pdf ads for my OTHER JOB! lol..... (it always comes back to newspapers, though, so it seems....)

Had to make the freakin' ad deadline, ya know.....”

“stumprider may be taking up residence in "my neighborhood." I don't think he thinks NE Iowa is half bad... DORKS!! lol”

“....is right. If only I could win many $$$$ on the Riverboat near by!”

“A riverboat? A river runs through the cornfield? Might could make a movie about that.”

“That's "THE BOAT," to YOU! lol”

“Oh gawd, now she's typing like Marvin Gardens.”

“It's that "living in Iowa" thing, it's getting to her...”

“And as an added bonus on this hike: GEOCACHING!! A muy fabulous cache placed by none other than lizs herself!!! (that right there ought to bring them out in droves!!! LOL!!0"
lizs


Kernels of corn wrapped in newspaper no doubt”

“i like popcorn”

“Writing "Hawkeye’s rule" on the envelope will only slow things down.

The University of Iowa Hawkeye’s are in Iowa City, Ia.
Iowa State University Cyclones are in Ames, Ia.
(the two schools don't really care much for each other)

Oh and the correct mailing address is:

Fertilizer Commissioner
CO: The University of Iowa State University
Ohio City, Idaho 90201

Or you could just address the envelope to Liz and she'll get it there…”

“Thanks for clearing all of that up. It gets murky in my addled mind. Too much corn oil in my muffins I think.”

“Just funnin ya lizs.”

“I used to use a lot of corn oil until I discovered the wonder that is olive oil.”

“Olive oil in corn muffins? Heretic! LIZS!?!?!?”

“Olive oil??? Well, c'mon guys!!! Doesn't this bring TWINKLE TOES TO MIND!!!?!?!?!??

LMAO!! I know you all remember!!!”

“Twinkle Toes puts olive oil in her corn muffins too?”

“she is a bit dry. Now...close your eyes, and imagine Twinkle Toes, naked, rubbing DiMalio's Extra Vigin Olive Oil all over herself, then going and standing under a cool water fall and how the water just bounces off her oily glistening body and when she exits the waterfall, how the water just beads up on her glowing body and drops, intimately, to the ground.”

“My oh my, someone has an active imagination!”

“I think I just had an accident...”

“Hope your pants are okay.”

“I'm wearing the waterproof shorts...”