Our Stories

2023 Volunteer Awards: Outreach

Ruth Dorrough Ruth has a long history of serving the NCTA and promoting the NCNST. In 2016, she and her husband Dan completed hiking the entirety of the NCNST, spreading word along the way about the Trail and its volunteers. She was an NCTA Board Member and served as Board President. For the past five […]

Grant Seaman: NCNST Long Distance Hiker

  Grant Seaman Canisteo, New York Central patch + Pennsylvania rocker In 2012, I started my challenge to hike the 46 highest peaks in New York State and become a “46er,” subsequently completing this challenge in the summer of 2017. I then wondered if there was a hiking challenge I could start closer to home. […]