Northeastern Minnesota Trails

Soon some of Minnesota's most beautiful hiking trails will join the North Country National Scenic Trail. This trail runs more than 4,600 miles from Crown Point in eastern New York to Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota.

If legislation passes congress to reroute the trail, the Superior Hiking Trail, the Border Route Trail and the Kekekabic Trail all legendary will be incorporated into North Country National Scenic Trail.

The NCNST, longest of the 11 National Scenic Trails authorized by congress passes through seven staints. The National Park Service administers the trail but primarily volunteers maintain the trail.
I'm not of an age when I am likely to hike the entire 4600 miles, but I have hike portions of the Minnesota Arrowhead trails singled out for inclusion.
Inclusion would be a wonderful reward for the many volunteers who have planned, built and maintained these trails.

Along the Superior Hiking Trail - Presumptions

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Originally uploaded by cageyj.

We presume lots of things to be 'natural' or true. This quote unmasks the assumption.

"Tell me," the great twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "Why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the Earth rather than that the Earth was rotating?"

His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just LOOKS as though the Sun is going round the Earth."

Wittgenstein responded, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?"

Quoted in The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

We always need to wonder what's spinning whether considering the world or the truth.

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I captured this photograph during a 'false' Spring day. Two additional snow storms came later that month. I walked here many times before but a different light and season created a new view.

Taken near the western end of the trail, just off the Becks Road in Duluth.