A Bloy and his Blog

Last week I was camping at Wisconsin’s Wyalusing State Park, which has spectacular views along the bluffs.

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One afternoon while I was camping, major thunderstorms were being predicted. As I listened to the radio and heard reports of the storms moving across the state (which included tornado warnings for counties in the storm’s path), I decided I didn’t want to be at my campsite when the storm came through, and headed to town for supper. After supper I hung out in town for a few hours as torrential rains and very strong winds hit the area. Once the storm warnings were over I drove back to camp.

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Last week I was camping in the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, one of my favorite places to experience the outdoors.

read the rest of: Back in the great outdoors

I saw Digital Photography School‘s post on how to photograph fire today, and I remembered some fire photo experiments I tried while camping last summer.

read the rest of: Thoughts of summer campfires

I just returned from a vacation at my favorite place for camping, the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. In addition to doing a lot of biking and hiking, I was treated to unique sunsets on five nights of my stay on Trout Lake. Here are the best photos from each of those sunsets.

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I just returned from camping at Wisconsin’s Northern Highland State Forest.

read the rest of: Camping “up north”

I just returned from a camping trip, where I stayed at Perrot State Park.

The park is located along the Mississippi River, about 15 miles northwest of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

read the rest of: Camping along the Mississippi