By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 7:00am Highlights of Tuesday’s Hike the Hill include meetings with the offices of 8 Congressmen representing districts through which the NCNST passes, a meeting with Vermont Senators Leahy and Sanders staff about the eastern terminus extension, and a meeting at Interior with Will Shafroth, who heads up the President’s America’s Great Outdoors program […]

By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 6:00am Monday turned our to be Budget Day in DC–the day when the President delivers his next year’s budget proposal to the Hill. Not a great time to be scheduling meetings with Congressional offices–all the focus and energy is on the budget and what it means to states/districts and political positions and whose […]

By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 7:54am ET We’re in Washington this week for the annual Hike the Hill, a gathering of the National Trails System representatives visiting Members of Congress as well as leaders in the federal agencies (National Park Service, Forest Service) that administer the trails. Andrea Ketchmark (NCTA’s Director of Trail Development) and myself are here, […]