LA Crosse to New Lisbon photos

Argh!  I captioned all these and it ate it again!  Also, I know less is more with pictures, but it's hard. I try to keep them under 15 a day, but this is only a fraction of the ones I've taken.

The La Crosse River Trail

Ed seeing me out.

STORM COWS later in the day.

Typcal tunnel wall in #3 and #1 (#2 was mostly brick)


Tunnel #3

Later in the day in Wisconin's hilly backroads!

It was fun watching this blow in

Tunnel #1, crazy rock ledges

This is typical of the 50 miles of trail I rode.  Very nice.

Ed and Matt at breakfast.

This was along the side of the trail.  A giant conveyor unloading and stacking sand from trains. Unfortunately no action heroes were fighting on it at the time.
 Wisconsin's got rocks!

Looking back trail from tunnel #1
 Tunnel #2 (1/4 mile long)

Tunnel #1 (1/4 mile long)

Looking back through Tunnel #3 (3/4 mile long)

There was also this stuff along the trail
 

and the trail passed through towns every 4-6 miles or so.

Inside tunnel #3.  I'm about 2/3 of the way through the 3/4 mile tunnel, and look how small the light is at the end still!  Sometimes they get so foggy you can't see either end from the inside.

Wisc views.

These old depots serve a visitor centers

Those giant doors on each tunnel were opened and closed to prevent freeze/thaw from degrading the tunnels.  They had to be opened and closed for trains up to 50 times a day.  Two workers with tunnel #3, but only one did #2 and one did #3. This meant they had to go through the tunnels.  These cutouts existed incase they got caught in the tunnel by a train.

Storms!

I think this is tunnel #3?