Out for a 20 mile walk

ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,079 moderator
edited July 22, 2008 in Landscapes
From around Springfield, IL, during a "Lincoln Heritage Trail" walk, roughly re-tracing the route that Abraham Lincoln took from New Salem to Springfield while he was a law student.

It's over 20 miles and the Scouts are pretty tired afterwards, but Lincoln used to walk both there and back in a single day (over 40 miles)!

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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2008
    Ziggy! Thanks for posting this. What a lovely winding road. I would really like to take a hike down this peaceful-looking trail, too. So did the scouts walk all 20 miles???
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,934 moderator
    edited July 6, 2008
    Wow. That's quite a walk for a day.
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,079 moderator
    edited July 22, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    Ziggy! Thanks for posting this. What a lovely winding road. I would really like to take a hike down this peaceful-looking trail, too. So did the scouts walk all 20 miles???

    Woops sorry. I got busy and forgot about this thread.

    Yes, all of the Scouts in our troop finished, although some took some encouragement to complete the task.
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,079 moderator
    edited July 22, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    Wow. That's quite a walk for a day.

    Yes it is. My son made the walk 6 times (I think) over as many years.
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