Oh yeah, this looks good...you go first.

We can't wait for spring to come so we can check out the George S. Mickelson Trail  in the Black Mining Hills of Dakota.It goes though 109 Miles of the best of South Dakota, from Edgemont to Deadwood.  On a bike it's relatively easy to go fully inn to inn.  On foot, however, you may find yourself occasionally sleeping under twinkling stars between evenings you walk into town and book a room in the local saloon and check in only to find Gideon's Bible.

A Long Walk in the Big Woods

Editor's Note:  This report comes from our new friend John Aebi-Magee, who regularly puts in fifteen to twenty miles a day.  It appeared previously at his site, Walking Inn to Inn, and he has kindly given us permission to republish it.  A multiple award-winning environmental entrepreneur,  John is the moving force behind the Sustainability Store, Earth Care Paper, Ultralight Living, and Wool Revolution.  Please visit them.  --PS

Adirondack Idyll

We paddled out onto Middle Saranac Lake on a breezy summer afternoon with no other plan than to revisit the scene of some happy voyages I had undertaken during the writing of my first book, The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness, and to fill in a few blanks in our personal map of the park.  The route we had in mind was part of the magnificent Northern Forest Canoe Trail, which officially opened in 2005. It’s kind of like an Appalachian Trail for paddlers, linking rivers and lakes from the middle of New York State to the top of Maine, but we had no intention of going even a tenth that far.  We were just out for a leisurely paddle, mixing a night or two of camping with a couple of days in town.

A Dad, A Daugter, and the Slopes of Summer