The North Country Trail: The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America’s Longest National Scenic Trail

The North Country Trail is the longest of America’s eleven congressionally designated National Scenic Trails. Winding through seven states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota—the NCT’s 4,600 miles attract more than one million visitors annually. These hikers are treated to a smorgasbord of Upper Midwest hiking featuring everything from urban strolls to backcountry adventure through mountains, rivers, prairies, and shoreline. This book is the definitive guide for NCT hikers—whether first-timers, seasoned backpackers, or any level in between—who wish to maximize their experience on this splendid trail.
In addition to a full overview of the trail’s tread in each state, the guide describes in detail forty of the NCT’s premier segments, with helpful information including easy-to-read trail descriptions, physical and navigation difficulties, trail highlights, hiking tips, and precise maps incorporating the latest GPS technology.

Science & Math

Strickland, Ron

North Country Trail Association

Nature & Ecology

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL

The North Country Trail is the longest of America’s eleven congressionally designated National Scenic Trails. Winding through seven states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota—the NCT’s 4,600 miles attract more than one million visitors annually. These hikers are treated to a smorgasbord of Upper Midwest hiking featuring everything from urban strolls to backcountry adventure through mountains, rivers, prairies, and shoreline. This book is the definitive guide for NCT hikers—whether first-timers, seasoned backpackers, or any level in between—who wish to maximize their experience on this splendid trail. In addition to a full overview of the trail’s tread in each state, the guide describes in detail forty of the NCT’s premier segments, with helpful information including easy-to-read trail descriptions, physical and navigation difficulties, trail highlights, hiking tips, and precise maps incorporating the latest GPS technology.

Interviews with ordinary Alaskans reveal their views on preservation versus exploitation of the environment, the role of women, resentment towards outsiders, racism, drug addiction, and regional rivalries

Alaskans: Life on the Last Frontier

History

Americas

Stackpole Books

Ron Strickland's oral histories recover a part of the original Northwest character that is rapidly disappearing. In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from old-timers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Brimming with lively accounts both humorous and poignant, the book illuminates cadences and traditions that Strickland hopes will survive long after the storytellers are gone. Here a moonshiner, a fish pirate, a timber cruiser, a branding iron maker, a smoke jumper, a frontier bride, and twenty-five other fascinating individuals speak vividly, revealing their personal histories in their own words.Strickland introduces each story, providing information on the teller and placing the story in context. In telling their own stories, his subjects speak to the diversity of life and labor in the Northwest. A short glossary enhances the listening experience, as do Strickland's own photographs of the storytellers.In a new introduction, William Kittredge notes that Strickland's interviewees are most passionate when speaking of their survival in the work-a-day world, sustained both by their livelihoods and by the solace of companionship. What we hear echoing over and again in these voices, Kittredge writes, is pride, at having managed difficult lives, and having along the way earned independence, all the individuality they could manage, and an unapologetic sense of self.

River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Reprints (Paperback))

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Oregon State University Press

Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home. In Whistlepunks and Geoducks, Strickland introduces readers to a remarkable group of storytellers, from old-timers to new arrivals.In searching for people whose stories would add up to a portrait of the Evergreen State, Strickland discovered a region as alive with folklore as it is with natural beauty. Ranchers and wheat farmers, fishers and loggers, Indians and city folk, saloonkeepers and Prohibition agents, oystermen and hippies, and, naturally, whistlepunks and geoduck hunters, all rub elbows on the streets and trails of Strickland's Washington state. The author provides a helpful glossary to local terms and adds an index to names, places and livelihoods. Black and white photographs from both personal and archive collections allow the reader to see as well as hear the storytellers.In his introduction, William Kittredge notes that part of the joy of listening to these spirited oral histories lies in experiencing the subjects' use of work-place lingo. The pickaroon, for example, is a pike pole used to break up log james, while the long two-person saws are called misery whips or Swedish fiddles. We hunger for stories about specific worlds, and the particularities of making a go of things, Kittredge writes. We search them for clues about how we might make our own efforts succeed.

Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Reprints)

In the early 1970s, a young, novice hiker had an audacious idea. Ron Strickland decided to create a 1,200-mile footpath across three national parks and seven national forests to link Glacier National Park's alpine meadows with Olympic National Park's wilderness coast. Enchanted by all that magnificent backcountry, he enlisted volunteers, lobbied landowners, and dug dirt. Four decades later in 2009, President Obama made the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail an official part of our national heritage. In this book Ron reveals how he and the volunteers bucked both brush and bureaucracy to establish one of the world's most beautiful trails. Ron Strickland is a master storyteller whose seven previous oral histories and guidebooks showcase some of our most fascinating regions and people. In Pathfinder he intersperses colorful portraits of memorable trail characters, insider's tips about favorite hikes, and news about the coming Renaissance of hiking. "The adventure," he says, "is just beginning."

Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Warm, wonderfully entertaining accounts by a general store proprietor, a basket weaver, a gravedigger, a town "gadfly," and 34 others reveal how time-honored traditions are carried on in spite of the inroads of the 20th century. As colorful as the state's autumn hues, and, in the matter of opinions, as obdurate as mountain granite, these recollections are accompanied by candid portraits. First published in 1986, Vermonters is sure to delight a new generation of collectors of Americana and any others who have succumbed to Vermont's rather flinty charm.

Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom

Univ Pr of New England

Warm, wonderfully entertaining accounts by a general store proprietor, a basket weaver, a gravedigger, a town gadfly, and 34 others reveal how time-honored traditions are carried on in spite of the inroads of the 20th century. As colorful as the state's autumn hues, and, in the matter of opinions, as obdurate as mountain granite, these recollections are accompanied by candid portraits. First published in 1986, Vermonters is sure to delight a new generation of collectors of Americana and any others who have succumbed to Vermont's rather flinty charm.

Chronicle Books+

From the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Northwest Trail is a unique hiking experience, offering a variety of backcountry scenery and outdoor adventure. Here is the official guide to the spectacular long-distance trail that stretches 1,200 miles from Glacier National Park in Montana to Washington's Olympic National Park. Like other long-distance trails, the PNT is accessible to both ambitious thru-hikers and day- or weekend-hikers who want to tackle smaller segments. This comprehensive guide features detailed route descriptions, topographic maps, and more.

Pacific Northwest Trail Guide (Northwest Collection)

Writing Works

River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest

Don't Call It Frisco Pr

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The North Country Trail: The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America’s Longest National Scenic Trail

The North Country Trail: The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America’s Longest National Scenic Trail

Alaskans: Life on the Last Frontier

River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Reprints (Paperback))

Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Reprints)

Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America

Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom

Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom

Pacific Northwest Trail Guide (Northwest Collection)

River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest