If you’re interested in seeing what it’s like to walk across North Dakota in late winter/early spring, you should check out Nimblewill Nomad’s 2009 Odyssey photo gallery.  In the North Dakota pictures you’ll notice one of the inherent challenges of thru-hiking the NCT…the fact that you have to start pretty early in the “spring” to […]

NCTA Star of the North Chapter volunteers noticed significant heightened interest in the North Country Trail at the recent Outdoor Adventure Expo.  The 48th Expo was hosted this past weekend by Midwest Mountaineering in Minneapolis, MN.   We attributed that to the New York Times article that came out on Friday, recent coverage from Nimblewill Nomad’s […]

Northern Exposure: Hiking the North Country Trail You can find the full article here – http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/travel/escapes/24northern.html