Tour de Chequamegon

09/16/2025

A few spots left with a few weeks to go. Don't miss out on an adventurous, awesome weekend in the forest with us!

Register @ tourdechequamegon.com

08/28/2025

Tour de Chequamegon is just over a month away, and this is your LAST CHANCE to ride the legendary route before it gets a revamp in 2026.

Up north vibes and a fully supported ride on the route that, literally, put Wisconsin on the gravel map.

We have a few spots left for 2025. Don't miss your opportunity to experience the route in its original form - because next year, things are changin'! Come ride with us.

Learn more & register: tourdechequamegon.com

06/24/2025

Join us this fall! www.tourdechequamegon.com

02/08/2024

In the latest podcast with TJ, we discuss the winter that wasn't. TJ also gets deep into the tremendous amount of work involved in making snow on the Birkie trail. We do some video site visits to look at the giant snow whales (swale watching) and I take you along on some more frozen lake rides. Direct links to the podcast on Youtube and Spotify in the comments below as well as the embeds in my Life Above 8 blog post linked in the image.

It feels like we never really experienced winter this year. By New Year’s Day we still had green grass with snow highlights in yard, so Liz and I decided to start the year with a paddle down the Namekagon River. I followed that with a couple bikerafting trips on the same river over the next couple...

12/16/2023

A bunch of fun videos and updates on Life Above 8 in the latest post, plus Tj is back (yay!) with reasons why you should not ride the Trek Trails Powered by OTM at Telemark, even if the ground is frozen.

What a difference a year and El Niño make. Last year I had venison backstraps for Thanksgiving, we had 22″ of snow on the ground, were still trying to chainsaw open trails to groom after two ice storms bent trees over, and people had been skiing on the Bikrie trails since mid-October. This year, ...

12/15/2023

Mineral Lake, on the Brunsweiler River. Thanks again to by brother Dean Schlabowske for letting me an old song he wrote with a former band "TV White" (anybody remember what "TV white" referred to?). More of his music here => https://deanschlabowskemusic.com/

Biking on Mineral Lake in the town of Marengo, WI north of Clam Lake. Song "Frozen Lake" written by my brother Dean Schlabowske and performed by one of his f...