Saturday, September 5, 2020

Southern Terminus

 

Today I hiked the Superior Hiking Trail with a friend. We park on Goat Mountain Road (which took an inordinately long amount of time to find. From there we hiked east toward Wisconsin to the end of the trail. We hiked 1.9 miles to the end and back to our car. The other car was parked at Jay Cooke State Park near the swinging bridge.

We made pretty good time. Much of the hike was easy but not all.

This is the southern terminus. A person could continue hiking into Wisconsin.

The trail goes down into the Red River Valley and there is a campsite here as well. Hiking with a friend was awesome. Talking together makes the time go faster and we had a great time. This was her first hike on the trail. Having two cars meant we didn't have to hike back on the longer section of 5.9 miles which was an unaccustomed and totally welcome luxury. This hike today means I have completed the entire hiking trail from the southern terminus to Tettegouche State Park. Today I (we) added 7.8 miles making my new total on the Superior Hiking trail 159.2. I have 172.9 left to go.

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