• The North Country trail

    Date: 2009.04.26 | Category: General | Tags:

    New York Times article about the North Country trail

    I’ve thought, off and on, that it would be interesting to hike the Appalachian trail. Yesterday I learned that there is a longer trail, the North Country trail, that goes from New York through North Dakota. It isn’t complete yet, but big sections of it go through New York, my native state, and Michigan, where I currently live (there’s an odd meandering detour through Ohio, but nothing’s perfect). Here’s the site for the North Country Trail Association. It’s 4,600 miles or so, so if you hiked 100 miles a day it would take only…