[at-l] Northern Forest Canoe Trail

[lorac4491 at linkamerica.net (Coosa Donaldson)]

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D83A5EJG0-170.shtml

BRUNSWICK, Vt. ? This highway through the north country is shady and quiet, with tree limbs dipping low overhead and snapping turtles skimming through the shallow water.

It´s a rural, winding section of the Connecticut River, part of a 740-mile water trail that was used for hundreds of years by native Americans and European settlers. Now, a Waitsfield nonprofit group and a legion of volunteers are re-establishing the trail for recreation.

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Reviving the Northern Forest Canoe Trail was the idea of three paddlers in the 1970s. In the late 1990s, the founders of Mad River Canoe in Waitsfield, Rob Center and Kaye Henry, sold their company and decided to make the re-establishment of the trail their next project.
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Center sees the Northern Forest Canoe Trail as a water-based version of the Appalachian Trail, the famed 2,174-mile hiking trail that runs between Georgia and Maine. As such, most people are expected to do it in sections, not all at once.

www.northernforestcanoetrail.org



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