June 01, 2008
Where's your "Nature Valley"?
"Nature Valley" is high up Lookout Mountain in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga Military Park for the hard working volunteers in this video - take a look!
| By ki0eh | 10:27 AM | Comments (0)
May 31, 2008
National Trails Day Events along the GET
The American Hiking Society's National Trails Day is June 7 this year. AHS offers a link to NTD events nationwide.
Some of the events scheduled for 2008's NTD along the GET are:
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| By ki0eh | 09:39 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2008
GET out and Work in PA
Pennsylvania's hard working Standing Stone Trail Club and its tireless, fearless leader, Carl Lorence, has encouranged a PA State Park to enhance the sign at the northern trailhead of Standing Stone Trail. All of SST is part of the east route of the GET through PA and MD and you can hike it all today.
Just start here:
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| By ki0eh | 07:52 PM | Comments (0)
March 17, 2008
Thru-Hike to Benefit GET
As I write this, Susan Baxley, Andy Grizzell, and their dog Corley are stepping forth from Springer Mountain in Georgia with a mission - to raise much needed funds for the GET!
See http://www.get-athike.org/ to follow their hike - and this entry from The Vista for more information.
Best of luck!
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February 24, 2008
Carr-ve out a new path for the GET
By Tom Johnson
American Hiking Society and the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club are sponsoring a Volunteer Vacation on the Great Eastern Trail in Northern Virginia. Join us in beginning construction of the six-mile Carr Mountain Trail through a remote area of the George Washington National Forest in northwestern Rockingham County, Va. We'll be staying in a lodge at the Highland Retreat, a Mennonite camp near the trail head. For details and sign-up, go to the American Hiking Society website Volunteer Vacations.
I've attached a photo taken on the yet-to-be-built Carr Mountain Trail.
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January 27, 2008
"The Best Place You've Never Been"
I've heard Breaks Interstate Park, straddling the Kentucky/Virginia border, described as "The best place you've never been!"
And it's true - I've never been there. It's an interstate PARK, NOT on the interstate highway!
However, the GET will take you there! Breaks Park will be an important hub as the GET hiker transitions from Kentucky's Pine Mountain Trail from Cumberland Gap to a developing route crossing Buchanan and Tazewell Counties in far southwest VA.
Dennis Crowley of Kentucky Trails Association HAS been to Breaks, and shares some of the splendor of this special place with us.
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| By ki0eh | 10:57 PM | Comments (0)