Getting into the thick of it: Ruffed grouse country offers a challenge

RICE LAKE, Wis. -- The midmorning sun shines on the Blue Hills, a yellow peg doing its best to fit through the vertical slots of a 10-year-old aspen stand.

The slanting rays of light make marginal penetration -- even the power of El Sol has its limits.

For visitors made of flesh and bone, passage through the popples is something else entirely.

"See if you can get around left, I'll try to head through here," says Dan Dessecker of Rice Lake.

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