Hello world, welcome to WFHR's Rapids Report for this August 8th, 2025.
Have your host James here.
We want to say a big thank you to Crockett Septic for sponsoring the show.
We appreciate them.
And we appreciate our great friend Bill Arneson being with us right now for Triton or
City ski club.
We're going to be talking about the Winter Park annual mini-mutter coming up.
We also want to send a big thank you to our friends at Vids and Wisconsin Rapids Bureau
setting this interview up, appreciate Meredith and the gang over there.
Bill it's great to see you.
Thanks a lot for the time sir.
Well thank you.
I thought that if you don't mind Bill, we could start off with a little background, a little
history about the Triton oris club and go from there.
Okay if you want me to go back into the history, we started the hill way back in 1928.
We had our first meet on the hill in 1932.
So we've been around for quite a while.
Yeah.
And a little background on a Triton oris ski club.
This is originally founded by three Norwegians.
My father, kind of Rebny in England, are in my son.
And they're incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1934.
These three Norwegians got the name Triton oris because one lived in Lucusa, one in Port
Edwards and one in Wisconsin Rapids and they were all Norwegians.
So they said Triton oris.
I love that.
Oh that's it.
I've always wondered that.
Interesting.
That's how they got the name of Triton oris ski club.
Then a few years back, since we've added some events.
We changed it to the Triton oris ski club in Winter Park.
And so now we're known as the Triton oris ski club in Winter Park.
That's a fun area over there.
I've lived in this area for 20 some years and it's one of the most consistent things I've
heard is how much people love Triton oris and love that area over there.
It is nice and we've tried to expand it a little bit.
I'll get into that a little bit.
Unfortunately last couple of years because of lack of snow, we've had to cancel our jumping
meets.
But this year we hope to have one that's got it's to be determined yet.
Yeah.
We'll be keeping our audience up to date on that information too.
Okay.
And but for the summer now, the next event is going to be the what we call the mini
matter.
It's for kids from five to 15 and we've had them as young as four years old.
Oh.
And we've been working hard on the course.
And so we've had a lot of improvements.
And it's again, it's ages five to 15 and it's an open obstacle course.
Meaning you compete at your own speed and you've turned to any of the obstacles and many
time as you want.
Again this year, the Rome Fire Department will be there to hold the kids down and clean
them up a little bit and forget to do it with the mudder.
It might be my favorite part actually, but we've had a lot of the kids go through more
than one.
So especially if it's a warm day like this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is going to go from 11 to four.
It'll be coming up August 16th and 17th and we'll get those details out there for you
again for everybody.
And Bill, if somebody hasn't had a chance to experience this event or even try Norris
and everything, there's so much that we could talk about about that area.
But I do want to note right away, if you go there just for the view, you're going to
be happy.
You're going to enjoy yourself.
The I love one of my favorite things about Central Wisconsin is just in random places
you are and just the view.
If you just take a look around and just really taking the nature of it and the beauty of
it, there's nothing like it in that particular spot, especially with the mound itself and
the ability to be so high up and everything, there's nothing like that view.
It's something that you can't see from the road.
Yeah.
You have to drive in.
If the gate is open, anybody is welcome.
And this weekend of the 15th and 16th, excuse me, 16th and 17th, we will be there, expectation
is free.
The kids do pay a small fee for running the course.
And we all have t-shirts for those that are precious to early.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great to hear.
It's really nice.
And also on that day, over both days, concessions will be available inside the Chile, which
was built a while back, including tacos, pork and homemade back and cheese.
And we'll have cheeky face painting there on Saturday from 12 to 2.
So the little kids can really get into it.
Oh, they love that.
Yeah.
And getting your face painted before you go on the mini-mutter, that's pretty cool, that's
going to be fun for them.
Yes, it is.
It's a lot of fun, and we've had over 100 kids.
One year we had 150.
Wow.
Wow.
We used to have this in June, but we switched to August because of the baseball seasons and
what.
Sure.
And so we're hoping to get better turnouts.
Yeah.
And it comes to the course itself, too.
This is something that kids have done for years over there.
It's a safe, fun time for them.
And it, Bill, it's not too long of a course, isn't it?
It doesn't seem like it is.
No.
The little guys have a little problem with it because one of these obstacles is climbing
the hill, under the hill, the 55 meter.
But overall, it's about a mile, and they go through different obstacles.
I think there's 18 obstacles.
And each one, most of them, anyway, have a mud puddle.
And the kids just enjoy that tremendously.
You know, and I do want to take a moment to thank the Rome Fire Department for coming
down.
We appreciate them, certainly appreciate them, just for what they do, let alone these
added things that they do coming to events like this.
And that makes me think of something, too, Bill.
I've mentioned this a couple of times actually in recent weeks that when I was a kid, my first
field trip I went to was a Chicago Fire Department.
I just fell in love with fire trucks and firemen and all this, and it really set off a
reel of respect and appreciation for that industry and the people of it.
And I think of that spark, and that spark can happen for any of these kids coming to this
event, too.
And they get a spark and a love for this sport, a love for Derek Hughes mound, and all
of these things, and some pride in their area, some love and pride for their area that
can happen just from having fun, just from having a good time and a great memory and
stuff.
It's another thing that I wanted to note, too, if you don't mind, Bill, just for a second.
When I talk to a lot of younger people, and anybody really of any age, but especially
younger people, when they're looking at events, when they're looking at things they want
to attend, they want something that's going to create memories.
They want something that they're years from now, they're going to look back on and talk
about what their kids and those kind of things.
This is one of the signature events for that.
This is a memory-making event.
It's such a fun one and really something that you're going to think back on a lot.
You don't have this event everywhere.
We're very lucky in this area to have an event like this.
We get people from all over.
We've had them from Warsaw, from Stevens Point, and even further medicine.
What's the word to get out?
Yeah, they're coming.
We want a great turnout for this year.
We're certainly on our morning show and our other shows.
We're going to be talking about this and making sure you guys get a good turnout and a
bunch of kids down there for this one.
We're going to make sure that everybody understood as well.
As you touched on before, if the gates open, even outside of this coming weekend, it's
going to be open for people and people can check it out if you've ever wanted to see
more and know more about Trinors.
Right.
We have a couple of other things coming up that where they could really take advantage
of the area on September 11th, from 530 to 630, it's going to be a remembrance of the
9-11 disaster, and the patrons can climb the hill on their own time and on are those
that lost their lives on September 11th.
That's beautiful.
That is very...
We'll be doing ending out complimentary bottle water at this event.
That's nice.
And the next thing that we have where the people can really enjoy it is the 3rd Saturday
in October, which is the 18th this year, we will be hosting the Kalorama.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and we'll have airy vendors in there and music by Bob Allen and
the second annual chili cookoff.
Oh, you're nice bringing the back, alright, great.
So and we give rides up to the top of the under hill and then the people can walk up
the scaffold on the 55 meter and from there they can see four counties and hopefully the
colors will be out.
It's my favorite time of year and to be able to see it from that angle, I've been trying
I got to get there this year, I haven't been able to get there yet, I've got to check
that out.
That's got to be amazing.
I've been up there in the summer, I've seen it like that, I've never seen it in autumn
around that time.
That's got to be an icon for you.
If we have the color, even if we don't have the color, we haven't had the color for
it's a couple of years now, but if we have the color of this year, it will be tremendous.
There is so many tremendous things and beauty happening over there, Trinors, and among
all this, whatever a mantra is around here, by local support, local, that includes our
great friends over at Trinorsky Club and Winner Park.
Did you have anything else, Bill?
I didn't want to cut you out there.
I just want to say thanks to the town of Rome and visit Rome organization and the Central
Wisconsin, I think it's called Convention, the Visitors Bureau.
They have been very, very supportive of us and we want to thank them and hopefully we'll
see a lot of people on the 16th and 17th.
Yeah.
I second that big shout out to both of those organizations.
We really appreciate them and appreciate you hanging out with us, Bill, and letting
our audience know more about not only Trinors and the ski club, the Winner Park, but these
great events coming up.
We are going to be talking about them a lot on our shows and making sure you get a good
turnout for all of these.
We appreciate it and thanks to LBFHR.
Thank you, Bill.
Appreciate you.
Keep in mind everybody, you can find out more about this by going to their website, Trinors.org.
Trinors.org.
Be sure to follow them on Facebook and share their posts on your page so other people
can see them and attend these great events and buy local support local.
A big thank you to them and all of you for listening and thank you to Crocket Sceptics
for sponsoring the show.
We appreciate them.
Thank you for listening to another edition of WFHR's Rapids Report.
