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Walking to School Isn’t Inherently Dangerous Parents in Maryland are being investigated because they let their elementary children walk a mile home from school. If they really believe that the community isn’t safe for walking, then they should be using their time and resources to build safe community trails rather than hassling parents for doing …
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Island Trails The Island of Sark is tough to get to, but well worth the journey. It is located off the coast of Normandy, France, but accessed, indirectly from England. Since there is no airport on the island, the only way to get there is on a boat from England to Guernsey and then another …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2015/01/12/sark-island-car-free-paradise/
Vital Trail Infrastructure When we think of charitable causes for third world countries or for the environment, we often think of food, clothing, shelter & medicine. And these are fine charitable contributions. But these contributions are futile unless there is a way of getting them to where they are needed. Typically these contributions come from …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2014/12/29/trailsnet-foundation/
Wild set on Pacific Crest Trail First there was the movie The Way starring Martin Sheen and set on the Camino de Santiago, a long-distance hermitage trail in Spain. Now we are happy to see a movie set on the Pacific Crest Trail in California, Oregon and Washington. This latest movie is called Wild and stars …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2014/12/13/long-distance-trail-movies/
How Controversial Can a Trail Be? Look on both sides of this post. Now look above it and below it. What do you see? More importantly, what don’t you see? Let me count the things you don’t see: advertisements corporate sponsorship government sponsorship affiliate sponsorship donor funding volunteer obligations So what’s my point? Go look …
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Nicaragua Canal In December of 2014, work is scheduled to begin on the Nicaragua Canal, also known as the Nicaragua Grand Canal. This is a rare opportunity to work, in conjunction with the canal construction, to build a transcontinental trail, the first of its kind in the world. Please take a look at the email …
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