More heavy snow this past week in northern Wisconsin with warm temperatures has packed the already deep snow, even more, making for prime winter activities like snowshoeing, skiing and sledding. Southern Wisconsin is snow-covered but not enough for snowmobile trails to be open according to the travelwisconsin.com Snow Conditions Report. However, cross-country ski conditions are fair to good in many southern state properties, including the northern and southern units of the Kettle Moraine State Forest.
The travel conditions on northern lakes and flowages suffered from the warm weather and heavy snow. Many lakes have ankle-deep or deeper slush under 8-10 inches of snow. Ice fishing season is well underway in southern Wisconsin with anglers targeting panfish having good luck with sizable fish being caught.
Some of the birds reported have been cardinals, woodpeckers, thrushes, northern harriers, snow buntings, tree sparrows and rough-legged hawks.
For more on Wisconsin’s outdoors, check out the full Outdoor Report.
