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A Trail Blogger's Farewell

Photo: Ryan As September’s song begins to take hold, my wife and I are heading for a new beginning in Wisconsin. There are several reasons for the move but the short answer is THE FIRST GRANDSON whose name is Ryan and who lives with his parents in Chi… Continue

Posted on September 3rd, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Marking a New Trail Between Topinabee and Brutus

Photo: Burt Lake Trail Committee Chairman Gary Leads the First Group of Riders up a Hill Near Burt Lake. If you read last week’s blog you may have noticed some inaccuracies in my depiction of Mark Trail, the environmental radio and comic strip hero of the Fifties. Some had to do with… Continue

Posted on August 23rd, 2009 at 10:48am —

A Hero For Trails

Trails need a hero. Everybody else seems to have them. In this country every conceivable activity from pro football to cooking to bass fishing to motor cross has at least one star, someone to carry the flag for the cause. OK, so trails are not an activity. True, but we prov… Continue

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:21am —

Statistical Snapshot of a Beautiful Trail

Photo: Because of the difficulty in taking pictures while running, this snapshot is from earlier in the summer. When a complete video record is not possible, maybe a snapshot will do. With our busy lives, full surveys of trail use in all the daylight hours are labor intensive and har… Continue

Posted on August 9th, 2009 at 3:35pm —

Building Trails in Tough Times

Photo: Two young entrepreneurs set up a trailside lemonade stand along the newly opened "Resort Bluffs" segment of the Little Traverse Wheelway just west of Petoskey. How can you think about building trails during tough economic times? This is the subtext of several conversations that… Continue

Posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 10:07am —