Blue Hills Warming House
The place
Blue Hills Warming House in Rusk County, Ladysmith/Bruce area (Blue Hills American Birkebeiner Ski Trail, Wisconsin, United States), at 419 m elevation, Northwoods glacial moraine. Continuous Wisconsin Northwoods cluster (batches 240-370). Nordic ski warming house (Blue Hills, a name inherited from the Laurentide Ice Sheet glacial moraine, 12,000 BC + American Birkebeiner Ski Marathon, 55 km cross-country ski race, 10,000 participants annually, 2nd largest in the world after Sweden's Vasaloppet, since 1973 + Hayward, Wisconsin, the cultural capital of lumberjack heritage + heritage of the Ojibwe Chippewa people (an Algonquian people, 170,000, speakers of Anishinaabemowin + Lac du Flambeau Reservation, 1854 Treaty + Treaty of La Pointe 1854, 3 reservations, border formation, fishing/hunting/wild rice rights, Manoomin/Ojibwe heritage of 3,000 years + Ojibwe language recognized as a Wisconsin State heritage language, 1997).
The setting
Rusk Ladysmith/Bruce Blue Hills American Birkebeiner Ski Trail Wisconsin USA 419 m Northwoods glacial moraine, continuous cluster batches 240-370, Nordic ski warming house Blue Hills Laurentide Ice Sheet 12,000 BC + Birkebeiner 55 km XC ski 10,000 participants 2nd in the world after Sweden's Vasaloppet since 1973 + Hayward lumberjack heritage, Ojibwe Chippewa Algonquian 170,000 Anishinaabemowin + Lac du Flambeau 1854 Treaty + La Pointe 1854 3 reservations border formation fishing/hunting/wild rice Manoomin rights 3,000 years + Ojibwe language recognized WI State heritage 1997.
