Call me a heathen in you must. But standing in the cold air, with the wind against my face, and nice powder below me... its peaceful. Call it Mother Nature, Gaea, God, or the random collisions of quantum particles... whatever you need to.

I cross country ski Marcus. So I go to a lot of the county parks where there is actually decent skiing, sometimes with official trails, and sometimes just cut by people on their own. Lapham Peak also has great cross country, as well as some other trails in the North and South Kettle Moraine Park regions.