Wisconsin Man Dies in Snowmobile Crash
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A tree had fallen on the trail during the day and it went unreported, the rider, a 54- year-old Almond, Wisconsin man was snowmobiling at night and struck the fallen tree, he said. “He died at the scene,” Christ said, adding that the crash was reported right away. The Michigan State Police, Watersmeet Police Department, Watersmeet First Responders and Aspirus Ambulance Service Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe also responded to the scene. IRONWOOD BAND director Kirk McBrayer leads the high school band during the district’s winter concert Monday at the Historic Iron- wood Theatre. Annual Christmas bird LIVING THE DREAM count to be held Saturday Appleton couple enjoys life on slopes By LARRY HOLCOMBE By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] [email protected] BESSEMER – Local bird- IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP – watcher Jerry Edde reports the When winter arrives Fran Frye annual Christmas Bird Count and Mark Stoeger leave Apple- will take place on Saturday. ton, Wisconsin for the slopes of Edde said the scope of the the Upper Peninsula. bird count is inside a 7.5 mile The two rent a condo and radius from the stop light in along with season passes they Bessemer. “That encompasses are ski patrol volunteers at Big Hurley, Ironwood, Bessemer and Powderhorn Mountain Resort. Wakefield and part of the town- “It’s our first day at Powder- ships.” horn but not our first day skiing Jerry and his wife, Christie, this year,” Frye said Monday. will head out in the morning and “We ski patrol at Pine Mountain travel about, watching and and we were there a little recording as they go. He said while yesterday.” while Christie will do some of The conditions were perfect, the watching, she’ll also be doing she said. The surface grabs the driving. “She does a nice job nicely and doesn’t feel icy. at both,” said Jerry who enjoys There is a beautiful corduroy on the watch with binoculars in it and the staff did a nice job on hand. the slopes, she said. He said they’ll be out for “It’s beautiful up here,” Frye about eight hours, but home by 5 said. “The snow is perfect.” p.m. to take calls from others in As for volunteering, Frye the area who participated that said there is one full time pro- day. fessional ski patrol staff on the Edde said he’s always hopeful slope and as many as 30 volun- to see a wide range of birds, but teers who can be available on a is afraid people won’t tally very regular basis. Since they have many this year, according to season passes already the what he’s encountered recently. resorts often gives them day “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen up and weekend passes they can here. There’s been a couple give friends who come up to nuthatches, woodpeckers and visit, she said. Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe chickadees, but there just aren’t A volunteer ski patrol has MARK STOEGER, of Appleton, Wisconsin, takes a run down the upper double-barrel hill on Mon- many.” more responsibility now, day at Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort in Ironwood Township. He is a volunteer ski patroller Ron Pittaway of Bird Watchers Stoeger said. There is training for the winter with Fran Frye, also of Appleton. Digest said there’s good reason and classes and a lot of first aid for this in his Winter Finch Fore- and medical things to learn. “We say, ‘you’re not sup- I go without dying, it’s what can to do stuff, trying to make cast for 2019-2020. “This is not “They upped the game,” posed to do that!” she said. I do with the surface to be in turns, and trying to do differ- an irruption (flight) year for win- Stoeger said. Stoeger and Frye said they control?” Frye said. “It takes a ent things.” ter finches in the East. Most win- Frye said the couple are prefer to practice technique or lot of control to throw that Frye said she observed a ski ter finches will stay in the north. “generally helpful people any- do as many turns as they can many turns on that face.” patrol class for navigating ski There are abundant spruce cone way” and so to have some while coming down the hill. A Coming down the ricochet bumps with a toboggan in Iron crops across the boreal forest in knowledge and a radio to use lot of people enjoy the speed run offers a sense of flying, Mountain last season. She plans Ontario, Quebec and Newfound- when somebody needs help is and like to scare themselves Stoeger said. Not for speed but to take the class this year. land.” just a way to feel useful while coming down the hill like a for making big, wide turns from “You need to know what to “Therefore, we cannot expect having fun. There is a lot to rocket but it’s as challenging side to side on a nice long run. do with those bumps,” she said. some of our most exciting birds know and she said she didn’t and arguably as fun to do turns, “If you start to get bored, “Are you trying to ski around like the red crossbill in the Upper realize how much she had side slips and pivots, she said. take a lesson and learn some- them, trying to ski on top of learned until watching ski “It gives you something to thing,” Frye said. “You can them or sliding over them? You patrol movies and television. strive for so it’s not how fast can have more fun out here trying need to know what to do.” BIRDS — page 5 TODAY INDEX Few snow showers — Details, page 2 Business . .13 75 cents Classifieds . .12-14 Monday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11 Vol. 101, No. 23 High 18 High 49 (1984) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 13 Low -19 (2008) Monday none Snow depth 22 in. Obituaries . .8 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 81.1 in. Opinion . .4 High 43 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 49.4 in. Sports . .9-10 Low 18 Monday none l 2 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY WEDNESDAYWEDNESDDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYFRIDDAY SATURDAY Few Snow Few Snoww Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy Chance Snow Showers Showerss 16° -4° 9° 2°2 17° 9° 25° 15° 26° 18° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 10-1310-13 mmphph W 5-95-9 mphmph WSWWSW 3-83-8 mphmph S 7 mmphph SSSESE 8 mphmph SWSW Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 24/8 Todayy we will see mostly cloudy Bergland skies with a 40% chance of snow 18/2 showeshowers,ers, high temperature of 16°, Wakefield Ironwood humidhumiditydity of 76%. West wind 10 to Saxon 15/-1 16/-4 Marenisco 13 mpmph.ph. Snow accumulation of less 18/-4 than oone inch possible. Bessemer 17/-1 Upson Hurley 15/-1 Watersmeet Associated Press 16/-6 16/-4 17/-1 SUNS AND MOON U.S. REP. 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