One of the best parts of midwest winters is sledding! And this week, Jamie Ludovic, Washington County's Chief Community Development Officer, joins me to talk about all of the great sledding options in the county. Next time the snow falls, you'll have some great ideas on where to take the kiddos!
I also got my daughter out of bed to help me on the intro and talk about her experience at Sunburst Ski Hill, as well as to find out how her senior year powerlifting season is going.
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That's coming up. But first, I thought I'd bring on a pre guest guest. Her name is Bree. And her face is red and she's my daughter. Hey kid. Oh, I need to turn on your microphone. Hey kid.
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What'd you guys do? Did you, did you like do the big hills?
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So for those of you who don't know, powerlifting is three lifts. You do squat first, you do three lifts and squat, and then they take your best one. Then you do bench press, you do three lifts of bench press, and they take your highest score there. And then you do, you know, Deadlift, which they, you do three lifts and they take your best score.
Then the total combined with a whole bunch of other stuff gets you to be whether you win or not. What is your favorite of the lifts?
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I think it was, was it 345 or 355?
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Jamie, thanks for joining me. Before we get started talking about all the fun places that we can go in Washington County, Thanks, Jamie. Let's talk a little bit about your role with Washington County and what you do. You're the chief community development officer, which sounds like It's a really fun position.
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Let's talk about West West Bend,
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So we kind of started to look at the marketing a little bit closer as I started to visit all these options myself. The county has two, Homestead Hollow in Germantown. Which is really great. Um, we have just had so much fun at this park. It is a relatively mild hill.
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Um, all of the county sled hills are lit in the evening. Oh,
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Okay. Um, really, really a fun time out there. We did that last winter with a group of friends, and as kind of that socially distant safe option for gatherings, um, it was great.
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But you can get, decide after what you're going to do. So, and if you visit the burn garden, the entrance is actually free.
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Now, I have sent a three year old down this hill, but I would recommend going with a parent if you're going to take young children. Um, because it's fast. Um, so it's a fast hill and But it's, it's gotta be, I mean, it's just fabulous.
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Um, and basically this is a little free library concept where you borrow the sleds and then you return them. Um, and so this year at Homestead Hollow, we actually had the Girl Scout Troop from Amy Bell Elementary School, the fifth grade troop, construct a huge, um, sort of little free sled shed. Um, and there's gonna be to start about six or seven donated sleds in there.
So if you happen to be in the park and you don't have a sled. You can kind of take one, use it for your enjoyment, and leave it when you go. So I think that's a really cool concept that's starting to take off in these sledding parks in Washington County.
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Um, I just think it's a, it's a great concept, and I know we're writing really large on the sleds in hopes that they don't get stolen. Walk off, yeah. Yeah, but well, I guess we're going to see how that goes.
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And, uh, but I think it's a great idea. And I think if you have multiple kids or if you forgot to bring your sleds and all that, it's going to be Well, and
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But mostly, I know, for, uh, Tubing, you have to be six or older, I think. And even then, if you've got a little six year old, tubing can be a little bit aggressive, depending on how busy it is. So, um, some of the other options are great. We typically go to, and we're going to, we're going to tour this year based on.
And with the info you've provided, Jamie, but, uh, we typically go to Ridge Run because they have kind of the smaller side and then if you're feeling daring, you can go up down the big screaming fast hill. So, um, that's always fun when
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The other parks don't quite have that, where you kind of walk through and you feel like, oh wow, this is just beautiful.
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So with the, the golf course, the Washington County Golf Course and some of of the great stuff going on there and then also. The mountain bike trails at Washington County. Oh
