Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: The Cikowski Crew is up this week ice fishing on the lake. Mack and I wandered out to see how they were doing Fritz, Tommy and Jimmy greeted their buddy Mack Mack is always happy to see what is in Fritz's pocket Fritz has his spot on the ice all figured out. He used to just sit on a... Read more

Excerpt: Steve and Penny went on a skijoring adventure across Lake Tomahawk and through the channel to Lake Katherine Penny was trying out a new harness that she puts on to pull with Steve skiing behind her. She loves to go Hey Steve like my new harness lets go off they go I put video of their adventure down the... Read more

Excerpt: Tracks in the snow a sunset. Skiing tracks Right next to much faster snowmobile tracks. This sled went by at about 40 miles an hour 2 days ago, a streak of yellow out our dining room window Then these fresh tracks Who could be leaving those.... We found our destination a cold sunset on Lower Kaubashine Brought to you... Read more

Excerpt: We have had a busy week, Grant and the rest of the guys on the Lakeland swim team won their sectional swim meet in Hudson on Saturday. We spent a busy couple of days getting ready to leave the resort with Steve so we could watch his races in Hudson last Saturday. Lakeland qualified 6 individule races for state... Read more

Excerpt: Steve and Penny went on a skiing adventure to the islands of Lake Minocqua. They headed out off the Ruben Town boat landing on Lake Minocqua and followed the tracks of snowmobiles most of the way and broke trail for parts. They checked out as many islands as they could along the way on Lake Minocqua Enjoy their adventure... Read more

Excerpt: We picked up a couple more inches of snow and it was time to get the plow out. Steve loves to hit the snow banks this late in the winter and watch them explode Just another day of office work for Steve and Troy The dogs love climbing his mountains. Right now Mack believes himself king of the mountain... Read more

Excerpt: We had a foot of snow fall yesterday. It was time to shovel out Someone else I know wanted to roll in the snow banks Can't I just roll in peace... why do you want me to look at the camera Fine I will humor you and look at you as long as the people looking at this picture... Read more

Excerpt: We had some beautiful heavy snow come in today. Big flakes It quick piled up on the trees Time to think about plowing As the day went on we had another batch come in that was not as wet. This snow should set up the trails nicely We do have one cabin left this weekend and January 20th and... Read more

Excerpt: Bascum the pink flamigo came for his yearly visit to the resort. UW Madison people will recognize him from a certain hill at the school and a certain prank he and other of his flock periodically appear on campus. Bascum was our mascot hoping for a little warmer weather this weekend. Folks skied, fished and went riding this weekend... Read more

Excerpt: Temps got warmer and it was actually nice to be outside. It was over 20 degrees and felt like a heat wave and my finger did not freeze when I took pictures Ben and Ali decided to check out the ice and informed me it was in good shape Hockey puck out and the mini game was on Ali... Read more

Excerpt: Troy was out at the woodshed and saw a rabbit fly out of the shed. Right behind it was a flash of white. Look close at the bottom of the wood pile for the white ermine in the picture. The rabbit was not going to be dinner to the ermine The ermine was neat to see. I just know... Read more

Excerpt: Jake used to ice fish with his grandpa Gibson who we lost this year. Jake misses his time with Grandpa on the ice and set out to start a few new traditions and headed to tackle shop to add to the ice fishing supplies his grandpa left him and headed out to the ice First things first, getting a... Read more

Excerpt: The snow is slowly piling up and the cold temps have hit the Northwoods. Our first Christmas families have started to arrive It is looking more and more like Christmas around the resort For anyone coming up in the next 2 weeks we partnered up with a local farmer who has Berkshire Pigs in Hazelhurst who raises them and... Read more

Excerpt: Snow is starting too fly in the Northwoods. We look to have a slow and steady build up of the white stuff before Christmas. 2 inches is coming down tonight with more on the way No it is not fireworks. I pointed my iPhone up to the falling snow to see what it would catch Right now we do... Read more

Excerpt: Guy have been busy out in the woods with the warm temps we had. I followed the truck in to see what they were up to Steve and Troy have been trail blazing. They decided to make an extension to our red trail. The Valley of Darkness was their destination for the trail. Following Steve between the trees The... Read more

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Excerpt: Ice and snow have arrived in the Northwoods. Each morning the ice reaches a little farther across the lake Mack would like to lodge a complaint that it is too cold to go pee outside in the morning and nobody has made bacon in a week for him. He is very sad... Things look up for him today with... Read more

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Excerpt: It was cold and crisp out to start the week. The leaves are now all down. The snow melted and it was time to get the resort cleaned up before more snows arrive The views off the hill while leaf blowing where spectacular today Blowing leaves down the stairway In other news, I ran into a 4th sock machine... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful weekend with warm temps and beautiful sunsets Lots of fishing and good times. The Voight twins, Samuel and Adam stopped by each day to show me their catch they got with their dad, Roy. This weekend it was Northerns all over 21 inches The boys had fun trying out all the old lures in their... Read more