Big bikes for little tykes, a bike ride for a reason.
May 15, 2021 5:37 PM Kade Overton
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT)- Big Bikes for Little Tykes is a group motorcycle ride where members are raising money for a special cause.
Noah Schroeder was diagnosed with a brain tumor last summer and is undergoing his 6th round of chemotherapy at Mayo in Rochester.
Friends and family from around the area teamed up in hopes of getting Noah a vacation to Apostle Island National Lakeshore.
Noah cannot attend the event, but he is still everyone’s main focus.
“He’s got some teammates here from school that was checking in with him so everybody wants to know how he’s doing. He is holding up really well, as best as he can be. And he’s just got such a positive outlook and he’s a sweet kid so this will be huge for him,” said Noah’s aunt, Lindsey Peterson-Smiley.
New weather forecasts coming for outer Apostle Islands
Popular with anglers, sailors and kayakers, the area was too far out for a near shore forecast but not as far as open waters of Lake Superior. 5:00 am, Mar. 12, 2021 ×
Sailboats lie anchored at sunset on an August evening just off the shore of Stockton Island in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The area around Stockton Island and other outer Apostle Islands is included in a new forecast area created by the National Weather Service in Duluth aimed at improving forecasts for small boats that frequent the area. (News Tribune / Sam Cook / 2016)
The tragic deaths of a father and three of his children when their kayak capsized in cold-water waves in the Apostle Islands in September 2018 may have helped spur one good thing: A new weather forecast specific to the waters of Lake Superior surrounding the islands.
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore ice caves. File photo by flickr user The Cut. (CC BY 2.0).
Wisconsin and the rest of the nation have endured frigid temperatures in recent weeks, but officials with the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore say it won’t be enough for the ice caves to form on Lake Superior this winter. The park announced the ice caves would remain closed for the remainder of the season on Thursday.
The ice caves drew international fame to the far corner of northern Wisconsin in 2014 when around 138,000 people visited the Apostle Islands for a glimpse of what one park official dubbed a “fairyland” of ice formations.
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