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Andrew Turner: NCNST Long Distance Hiker

Andrew Turner Vermont, New York, and 4000 Miles (Previously received the central patch + Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mackinac Bridge, 1000 Miles, 2000 Miles, and 3000 Miles.) As of May 22, 2024 I can now proclaim six out of eight states are completed on the NCNST and I have crossed over the 4,000 mile mark […]

Randall Roberts: NCNST Long Distance Hiker

Randall Roberts Mackinac Bridge and 2000 Miles (Previously received the central patch + Ohio, Pennsylvania, and 1000 Miles.) I reached 2,000 miles on June 30, 2024 while hiking solo on the Finger Lakes Trail in New York, a trail which I will complete, end-to-end, this September. In November 2008, I discovered the Buckeye Trail (BT) […]

Liz Seger: NCNST Long Distance Hiker

Liz “Swisscake” Seger Central patch + 1000 Miles and Michigan Michigan, 1163+ miles in section hikes, started 9/14/20, finished 9/21/2022. Have you ever hiked with a frog riding on your compass? Have you ever been in a stretch of woods so infested with lunaria caterpillars that the ground is slick with their poop and the […]