The day started with a four hour visit with a customer in Madison, Wisconsin. Once I was finished there, I had a quick lunch and headed 100+ miles north to Wausau to be in place for a Wednesday appointment. I arrived in Wasau at 6:00PM and headed straight for RIB MOUNTAIN STATE PARK. Approximately one and one half miles from the actual park entrance was a trail that led to the park, and that is precisely where I parked my car - at the trailhead for the BONE & JOINTS TRAIL.
The Bone & Joint Trail led directly to Rib Mountain State Park.
Rib Mountain | ||
Page Type: Mountain/Rock
Location: Wisconsin, United States, North America
Lat/Lon: 44.92080°N / 89.6944°W
Object Title: Rib Mountain
Activities: Hiking, Bouldering
Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Elevation: 1924 ft / 586 m
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| Rib Mountain as seen from five miles away. |
The high point (no pun intended) of this visit to this park, was the 60 foot tall VAN DOUSER OBSERVATION TOWER which was erected in 1959. The OBSERVATION TOWER is at the peak of Rib Mountain. It was 96 steps to the top. I counted them.
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| Another hiker offered to take this photo and the one below up on the Observation Tower. |
Since this mountain is used as a ski slope in the wintertime.... There were trails leading down and up the various slopes. Naturally, I hiked down one slope and hiked back up another. After the 20 mile hike on Monday, this six mile adventure seemed like a 'walk in the park.' (Which of course, was exactly what it was... a walk in the state park)
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| Those are ski lifts over my right shoulder... It's hard to tell the incline of the mountain from this shot. |
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| After I climbed UP the mountain which is serviced by ski lifts in the winter.... It is still difficult to see the incline. |
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Your Food Diary For:
| BREAKFAST | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | |
| Quaker - Grits - Instant - Original | 600 | 132 | 0 | 12 | 1,860 | 0 | |
| 600 | 132 | 0 | 12 | 1,860 | 0 | ||
| L U N C H | |||||||
| Chicken Breast Fried - Chicken Breast | 480 | 45 | 12 | 102 | 300 | 45 | |
| Beans - Green Beans | 100 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 3 | |
| Mashed - Potatoes | 200 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 93 | 3 | |
| Cashews - Dry Roasted & Unsalted | 200 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Banana Chips | 150 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
| 1,130 | 111 | 49 | 129 | 407 | 62 | ||
| D I N N E R | |||||||
| Jimmy John's - Bootlegger Unwich, 1 sandwich | 320 | 3 | 22 | 28 | 1,120 | 0 | |
| Read - 3 Bean Salad | 300 | 65 | 0 | 5 | 1,500 | 40 | |
| Jack Links - Teriyaki Jerky, 3 oz | 240 | 18 | 3 | 36 | 1,440 | 15 | |
| 860 | 86 | 25 | 69 | 4,060 | 55 | ||
| S N A C K S | |||||||
| Special K Protein Bar Chocolatey Chip, 1 bar | 170 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 170 | 15 | |
| Atkins - Coconut Almond bar, 1 bar | 200 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 90 | 1 | |
| Fig Bar, Whole Wheat Raspberry, 1 Bar | 110 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 10 | |
| Nature Valley (Us) - Crunchy - Oats 'n Honey | 190 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 180 | 11 | |
| 670 | 77 | 30 | 22 | 475 | 37 | ||
| Totals | 3,260 | 406 | 104 | 232 | 6,802 | 154 | |
| Your Daily Goal | 2,837 | 354 | 94 | 142 | 2,300 | 106 | |
| Remaining | -423 | -52 | -10 | -90 | -4,502 | -48 | |
| Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | ||
| *You've earned 907 extra calories from exercise today | |||||||
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from wikipedia....
Rib Mountain, also known as Rib Hill, is a glacially-eroded monadnock in central Wisconsin, located in the Town of Rib Mountain in Marathon County. Composed ofquartzite covered with a softer syenite sheath, it was intruded about 1.5 billion years ago.
Rib Mountain is near Wausau on the west side of the Wisconsin River, just west of Interstate 39 and just south of Highway 29.
Rib Mountain is almost 4 miles (6.4 km) long and peaks at 1,924 feet (586 m) above sea level and 760 feet (230 m) above the local terrain, making it the point with the greatest difference in height from peak to surrounding terrain in the state of Wisconsin. The Rib River and Little Rib River are nearby.
Rib Mountain is home to the Rib Mountain State Park and the Granite Peak Ski Area. The peak is also the site of transmitters for radio and TV stations in the Wausau area, and is the namesake for Wisconsin Public Television's WHRM-TV (Channel 20) and WHRM-FM (90.9), Wisconsin Public Radio's news and classical network station for the area.
It also makes room for the transmitter at the top for WIFC.
When the ski area opened on the slopes of Rib Mountain in 1937, it was one of the first ski areas in North America. Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont had opened a few years earlier in 1934. Sun Valley in Idaho had become the nation's first ski area in the western states in 1936.
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this from the skigranitepeak.com website...
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