Darcy and I spent a recent saturday exploring Glacial Park that is rich in geological artifacts. One pleasant discovery while hiking there was the Nippersink Creek. This winding and intimate stream flows through Glacial Park and continues for about 12 miles to the south. Darcy and I are planning a canoe trip on Nippersink Creek sometime in August. We hope to camp along the creek at a camp site that is only accessible from a canoe.
Glacial Park is a beautiful area with remnants from the last glacial period roughly 12,000 years ago. The park has a peat bog created from the melting glacial ice as well as interesting ground swells known as "kames". A kame is a ridge of silt and gravel that juts up from the surrounding flat terrain. The kames were formed when the silt and gravel pushed along melting ice rivers, fell into fissures in the ice on which the river flowed. The park is located only five miles from the Wisconsin border and the glacial ice didn't move much further south than Wisconsin.
It was a great hike through the park although the mosquitos were ravenous along the bog area and I think we lost a couple of pints of blood along the way.
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