Category: long-distance trails

Great Plains Trail Featured in Bootprints

Long-distance Trail The worlds of hiking and biking are mainly set in the mountains. I’m not exactly sure why that is, but hopefully hikers and bikers will discover that America has an amazing ecosystem unlike that found anywhere else in the world. Oh sure, our mountains are beautiful, but nearly every continent and country has …

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Epic Trails on the Horizon

Neighborhood trails are fine for that quick bike ride after work or a family stroll on a weekend. But what about those of us who love to spend full days on the trails… even enjoy planning our vacations around long-distance trails? Trail VacationsI’ve been fortunate enough to travel all over the world and visit castles, …

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Great Plains Trail

“The best view of the mountains,is from the plains.” – K. L. Purdy I love discovering new, epic trails being planned. I recently found out about a mega-path called the Great Plains Trail. Here is the first paragraph from the Great Plains Trail website:The ultimate goal is to establish, preserve and promote a long distance, …

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Pedestrians & bicyclists: Do they mix?

Thanks, once again, to Barry, for providing me w/ today’s topic.According to the Cycle Kyoto website:Accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians have skyrocketed in the last 10 years in Japan. In 2009, there were 2,934 such accidents. That is 3.7 times the number recorded a decade earlier. Why can’t we all just get along? It looks …

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