The Great Western Trail
Last year, I wrote
a weblog entry and
a story about long trails in North America.
(Mostly hiking/bicycling/equestrian trails.)
I mentioned:
I have heard of the idea of a north-south route through
the Great Basin, from Arizona to Idaho or Washington,
but I think that one is pretty sketchy.
Well, here's the sketch
(found via alt.mountain-bike, where a thread about the
best singletrack in the US included a claim that
the "Wasatch Crest Trail", near Salt Lake City,
was way up near the top of that list; and it turns
out that the Wasatch Crest Trail is a part of the
"sketchy" trail I was referring to):
So ... that sketchy trail is called the
Great Western Trail and indeed follows pretty much the
route I so vaguely waved my hands at.
The GWT is one of the 16
"National Millennium Trails"
designated in 1999. See
this nice list, with maps.
In addition to the 16 main Millennium Trails,
There are 51 "Millennium Legacy Trails",
and thousands of "Community Millenium Trails".
That kinda cheapens the whole idea, if you ask me.
Bonus hiking link: Russell Bell collected an informative page about
getting to the John Muir Trail trailheads without a car.
Or getting back to your car after a week or more of hiking.
When I open that page in a tab in Mozilla, the tab says simply
"Getting to and from the John ..." :-)
10:41:23 PM
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