Very interesting

http://m.youtube.com/wat…watch%3Fv%3Dxn_DOPumFkU

Get a cup of coffee and enjoy watch about the Driftless area in parts of Wisconsin,Iowa,Minnesota.

Sorry I guess it does work. Got it from other site.

Thank’s son. Like they said on the film. Just think it is in our own back yard.

Wow, thanks for sharing.

I just watched the whole thing. Now I know not only why the geography in SE MN is so different, but also that there are some very interesting things going on that you can’t see from afar.

Its no wonder its a magnet of beauty, very very pretty in the four corners. Thanks for the Video.

Awesome find! Thanks for sharing. I kind of knew where it was but didn’t have a clue why it was named. It is interesting how much is actually going on in that area! And one wouldn’t even know if they didn’t hear or see something about it. I’m glad I watched it!

Thanks for posting. Putting my geology nerd hat on….you would be amazed at how many colleges around the world actually study wisconsin glaciation. When I was studying in the field we would run into others from around the country and abroad at specific areas to see some glacial features that many can only see from a book.

Gotta love this state and its natural beauty!!!!

I took a class just for fun last semester at the UW called the Geography of WI. I was amazed at all of the new stuff I learned about WI’s landscapes. We have so many overlooked natural marvels in WI it is unbelievable. I even took a field trip with the class to see some of the stuff we learned about, awesome experience.

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Wow, thanks for sharing.

I just watched the whole thing. Now I know not only why the geography in SE MN is so different, but also that there are some very interesting things going on that you can’t see from afar.

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And to think I only live just a few minutes away from ALL that beauty

As soon as I seen it was a 26 minute video I was like oh boy but after the first few minutes I couldn’t look away what a great video. Thanks for sharing.

One of those spots is where I used to bowhunt completely hidden back on this hillside, in the deep oaks and hidden from the eye until you walk upon and follow it. Its usually a dry creekbed with the occasional pool of water with deer trails crossing it. As you go down this creekbed you see the pools get larger and then you see three spots where the water falls over large rock ledges and into the pools below them. The waterfalls run and are only there when it rains and then the creek dries up except for these shaded pools, but over 10’s of thousands of years it has cut down through solid limestone to make these 3 falls. The limestone on both sides of this creekbed right at the falls, to the top is maybe 30′. Each of the three waterfalls have those 30′ steep rock sides on both sides.

There’s a spring fed stream at the bottom that flows by and the only time this dry creekbed lets its water through, is when it rains. Theres no fish life in the pools that are there but theres insect life and its very enjoyable standing there trying to see anything that might be in these three pools. It all flows into the Turkey river a couple miles away and you’d never know it was there until you walked up on it, hidden on the bluff sides and under the canopy of the hardwoods, cool spot forsure.

I now wish I would have taken some pictures. Ive heard of the ice caves in N.E. Iowa and I’ve never been there but close by and the few special plants that only live in the cool drafts from these caves, they can only live in this cool draft and nowhere else in the world do they live I heard. It would be very nice to be able to take the whole summer to walk some of the hillsides and bluffs in the Driftless area just to see whats there, maybe dozens of totally hidden gems forsure until you walk up on them.

Len explained the “driftless zone” to me a few years ago, but that video takes it to another level.

For those who want to take a weekend trip and see what the driftless zone has to offer take a drive along the Mississippi river bottom from around Wabasha down to and around Elkader Iowa, going west at at Mcgregor Iowa heading twards Elkader. This whole area is the landscape where the glaciers never touched and what it looks like now is what it looked like thousands of years ago.

When you get to around the Elkader area head off back east driving some of the back roads that are gravel and see the many spring fed creeks and rivers, just wander around with no point of direction in particular. Maybe go back north twards Decorah or another point of direction to anywhere in Allamakee county. This whole area is very pretty with large and small valleys and a diffrence in elevation, enough to make your ears pop. If you want to plan a trip out my advice is to get intouch with the Iowa DNR and ask for a map of the trout streams in N.E. Iowa, follow these streams by road because this whole area is what you want to see, plus the gravel roads that go from small town to small town. My wife and I are planning our retirement and this area is at the top of the list because of its beauty. The real noticeable beauty and limestone bluffs comes down to around where I live but its by far much prettier 50 miles north of where I’m at, around Strawberry point to Wabasha, on both sides of the Mississippi. At times you can drive and look out 3 or 4 miles and see the clouds and haze below the tops of the bluffs and hills in N.E. Iowa, its worth the trip and bring your fishing pole.