Hinterland Extended

The sky was so thickly overcast you could hang your helmet on it – rain on its way, again – and the forest so utterly empty of anybody else, bikers or otherwise, that I thought I might lose the trail to fog heading up to the peak of 'Porky Point' 

and run smack into Kassel Wilhelmsoe, the truest of hinterlands, Hesse.  

Levis Trow Mound, the real place, between Neilsville and Merrillan WI, is considered one of the great trail networks

in the midwest for mountain bikers, 

cc skiers and snowshoers alike.  It is a flat lowland experience, meandering through soggy 'swamp cuts,'  raw, silent, timber and brush landscapes miles off-highway, that open, when you are lucky, to widening views of the panoramic Clark County forest.

It's also a highland experience, rising up through rocky paths sometimes conveniently cut directly through limestone (don't frac this, please),

or onto some very creative specialty trails which, if not watched closely,

could lead you a little bit more intimately into those imaginary Kassel hinterlands than you might like.