Trek Star: For Generation Next
Unbridled Adventure is pretty dependent on having, well, an outdoors to enjoy it in. Last week, I had a lady from Florida email me. She let me know that a guy was hiking around in Kentucky. I thought “What else is new?” and proceeded to delete the email with some spam. Then I read the next sentence. This guy had started hiking three months ago…in Key West, Florida!
John Davis (Courtesy Wildlands Network)
John Davis was spending the next couple of weeks in his home state of Kentucky, hiking the Sheltowee up the gut of the Boone National Forest, part of a route eventually taking him into Canada (!) and over 6000 man-powered miles when all said and done. I had to find out more. He’s with the Wildlands Network, and calling his journey TrekEast. It’s his goal to create awareness for the patchwork of wild lands along the eastern United States, including a long couple of stretches in Kentucky. He’d biked down the Pine Mountain Trail to the Blanton Forest before turning north up the turtle trail.
I’m a hiker. But I’m no John Davis. This is his first undertaking of this magnitude, according to that “lady from Florida” who is actually his publicist, Kelly Harris. She went on to tell me that he’d grown up in Lexington, and had done a lot of adventuring over the years, resulting in his love for the outdoors and passion to see it conserved for future generations.
I wasn’t able to meet up with John like I had wanted, but if the world is one big wilderness, we were both on the same trail I’m sure at one point or another. For more on John and his epic adventure that Kentucky had a part in, visit www.wildlandsnetwork.org.
National Trails Day 2011
It’s the eve of National Trails Day 2011, and I hope you have an adventure scouted out for the morning! Lots of our state parks have outings for the day, and a list of those can be found online at www.parks.ky.gov. I’m moving my hiking times to 5am or earlier to beat the heat the next couple of months. Sunrise city! Stay cool, and till next trip…
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John Davis is the nephew of my husband and he and his family have sacrificed a regular job and time together this spring, summer and fall because he believes we can create contiguous private and public land areas that will increase opportunities for wildlife survival and renewal. He will be at Al’s bar in Lexington to meet people who want to talk about this tonight and at Shorty’s on Monday before hiking out of Ky north. What a guy!!!
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