The latest issue of the Call of the North (NCTA’s Minnesota member newsletter) is now available for download (PDF, 1.4MB).  In it, you’ll find the following articles: Highlights from Phoebe Alden & Ken Zimmer’s participation on the NCTA Extended Outing on the SHT A recap of the 4th Annual North Country Hiking Fest at Itasca […]

The election on Tuesday and the impending January shakeup in Congress has some NCT supporters thinking about the fate of the NCT’s Arrowhead Re-route legislation. A comment on the Arrowhead Re-route legislation from the Hiker Yahoo Group… Posted by: “Derek Lamparty” Thu Nov 4, 2010 1:55 pm (PDT) “It would have to go through before the new congress […]

The Itasca Moraine Chapter has just finished flagging a roughly 6-mile, double loop trail system with spurs and connectors around scenic Waboose Lake in Minnesota’s Paul Bunyan State Forest.  Currently, the NCT traverses the NE corner of Waboose Lake and there’s a spur trail to a backcountry campsite located at the end of a peninsula […]