The "White Birch Digging Club" ( Ziphippy, Schmitty Jeff, RockBob, Two Gallon Tom, Beast of Burden and me) got out for a dig this past October for a few days of digging in Wisconsin. We thought we would try the Southwest corner of the state, an area that most of us have never checked out or even been. The hope was to possibly dig up some of the smaller less distributed brands; like Fauerbach, Peerless, Mineral Spring, Potosi and Huber to name a few. The plan was to meet at the Midway Motel in Viroqua, WI on Friday, where Tom secured us lodging. We knew that the terrain and land use posed some challenges, but arm with some old topo's and ideas we charged forward with our plan.
The guys were already hard at it when I arrived Friday evening. I found them near Readstown, left my truck at a gas station, and jumped into Bjorn's truck. We checked out a few spots before dark.
- Old Farm
Did anyone check the silo?
- Beer Cans! Old Style Light
- Looking Up
We got to the Midway; We tailgated in the parking lot where Jeff cooked us up some tasty Elk Brats. A bucket of Kingsbury tabs was all that was found.
Saturday morning it was Jeff and Bob with Bjorn in his truck they were heading Northwest, and Tom and Patrick with me in my truck heading southwest. We weaved east and west while heading south without much luck. We eventually found ourselves near Potosi and decided to play hooky from dumping and checked out the Potosi Museum. Only $3 (senior price) and it comes with a pint of beer.
- Playing hooky, Potosi Museum
- Reflections
- Peerless
- would be fun to dig some Ziegler cones.
- we're not too far from Freeport, IL
- Beautiful line up!
- Leinenkugel's would be good cans.
Back on the hunt!
- Tom on the hunt
- Hamms party
We headed deep into the valley and ended up in...
- Middle Earth....in Wisconsin.?...Who Knew.
- Back at the Midway
We got back to the Midway with no cans for our effort. Bjorn and Bob were there, and Jeff had went home, they did as bad as we did. Bjorn cooked us up some burgers and we came up with a new plan to head up to the North Woods in the morning.
- Tailgating at the Midway
- making a new plan
We decided to head up near Hayward, we caravanned the three-hour drive north.
- Dump Truck, at Roadside motel
We stopped at this roadside motel to secure lodging and to ditch four of our five vehicles. Tom and I went in to book the rooms. It was Sunday and our motel hostess came out fully decked out in her Green Bay Packers gear, once she found out I was from Chicaoland and Tom was originally from Chicago, the friedly rivalry banter ensued. She said she had two perfect rooms for us, but they would not be ready till later. We told her that would be fine that we would be out digging all day. We Paid her and as we walked out the door she turned and said "the Bears still suck! then she cackled, and continued to laugh even after the door had closed.
Did you talk to Aho yet?
