June 10, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
LOCATION: Regner Park Beach House, 1225 Park Ave, West Bend. Click here for driving directions. Watch for yellow “Ice Age Trail Event” signs. Note the new location, we will be meeting here through June.
GUEST SPEAKER: Katrina Serwe, an award-winning poet and a hiker who became an Ice Age Trail thousand miler in 2024, will be the guest speaker. She will present poems she wrote while hiking various Ice Age Trail segments along with photos of her journey. Her first book of poetry entitled First Steps: Poemwalking the Ice Age National Scenic Trail in the Northern Kettle Moraine was released in May 2025.
EXPECTED MEETING AGENDA ITEMS: Following the guest speaker there will be a chapter business meeting. The chapter business meeting is expected to include the following topics with additional topics to be determined:
Introductions
Secretary report
Treasurer report
Segment updates
Loew Lake - Emerald Drive repaving this summer
Holy Hill - Re-route pending approval from Carmelites, Pleasant Hill parking lot complete but not open
Pike Lake - ?
Slinger - ?
Polk Kames - DNR will regrade driveway and parking
West Bend - Puncheons for white trail, reblaze north of Park Ave., fix blazing at Beaver Dam Road, blue flagged trail through Burkepile
Kewaskum - erosion on white trail, reset tree tubes, Alliance has been contacted about replacing boardwalks near US 45
Milwaukee River - Post painting complete, new DNR kiosk at Highway 28
Trail improvement events
Plan upcoming trail improvement events for the rest of the summer
June 17, 5 pm - Emerald Preserve Invasives – Emerald Drive location
June 24, 9 am - Post project at Pike Lake
July 1, 5 pm - Holy Hill overgrowth and invasives by STH 167
July 8, 9 am - Lockman overgrowth and invasives – yellow and white loops. Focus on overgrowth on yellow trail and block new social trails
July 15, 5 pm - ?
July 22, 9 am - ?
August 5, 5 pm - ?
August 12, 9 am - ?
August 19, 5 pm - ?
August 26, 9 am - ?
Saturday events for Holy Hill reroute, include Waukesha-Milwaukee?
Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation (CLCF) properties
IAT Trail Crew project is scheduled for October 1-5, 2025
Upcoming chapter hikes
Buck Moon Hike - July 7, 8 pm, Loew Lake
Chapter Picnic and Hike - August 12, 5 pm, Pike Lake
Family Day Hike - September 8, 1 pm, West Bend
Chapter Annual Picnic planning
Pike Lake, August 13, starts at 5 pm
Picnic shelter has been reserved?
Food items provided by chapter?
Equipment and supplies needed
Have a short hike before eating?
Have a short business meeting?
DNR updates
Beach boardwalk rebuild complete to dog swim area, now continuing north
Invasives Day at Pike Lake, Saturday, June 21
125th anniversary of Wisconsin State Parks
Pike Lake will have an event on July 11, 7 pm
Elias requested an IAT table, there will be a potluck
CLCF updates
Habitat Hike: The Burkepile Property
June 25, 10 am
CLCF staff will lead hike giving participants a sneak peak of new Ice Age Trail route
Trail Community updates
Slinger
Tyke Hike, July 7, IAT Library Presentation, July 8
Slinger Night Out
August 5, 5:30-8:30 pm, Breuer Park
Trivia at Aspen Sky, September
Slinger Trails & Cheers event, October 11, 4-7 pm
West Bend
Public Hearing on Washington County Plan: 2050
Geocaching Cache Ba$h - booth on Saturday Aug 9
Hub Tip Jar, September
Farmer's Market booth?
Alliance news
Evansville is a Trail Community
Celebration on July 04 at Leonard-Leota Park
Submit photos for possible inclusion in new IAT Guidebook by September 15
Old business
Eagle Scout project updates
Piggly Wiggly fundraising, received $2,818.53
June 18 – Presentation at Oscar Grady Library in Saukville
Possible bench on Milwaukee River segment west of Sandy Ridge for Staehler family
Family has been contacted to select a preferred location
Treated lumber needs a new home - Lisa will store until October Trail Crew project
Meander The Mid Moraine hiking program
100 new patches of the same design were ordered
Lysianne from the Alliance is working on brochure updates
Patch cost - should we raise the price that we charge members and non-members?
New business
TBD
No chapter meeting in July
PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES: Minutes from May 13, 2025 Chapter Meeting
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