Day 6 was long. Starting in munising was fun and familiar. The trails through valley spur was like my home course. The rest of the trail awesome until the rock river wilderness area then it got rough. Rocky and rooty, wet and not used much.
Day 7 was fun to run thru Marquette. Most of the day was on the iron ore trail. The rest of the day was north of the city. And I finished along the garlic river. Legs are sore but day 7 is the hardest right?
Great work Scott! I Loved seeing your interview on TV6, hopefully you'll be surprised by visitors along the trail that want to meet you and maybe run or walk with you a short segment after seeing your story. We "MBTN"are all so proud of what you have accomplished and what you are doing for your community. Run Forester Run! Go Scott Go!
ReplyDeleteOn Day 6 Scott had two river “fords” shown on the map that he had to do, both of which he said he got over very easily, but right out of valley spur there was a section he took his shoes off for so he didn’t have wet feet all day. Getting to one of the refueling spots we had picked between Rumely and Deerton didn’t end up happening because one of the roads to get there was gated and another one had a bridge out, so I had to go all the way up to deerton and come down a different road to get to another spot that intersects the trail which I made it to right as Scott was getting there. Luckily we had a bar of service because I received a call back from tourist park in Marquette about getting a reservation, we were lucky though because the lady called to tell us they were full but as I was on the phone and she rechecked and in the last 20 min they had a cancellation so I was able to book a site for the next night. I brought our dog Maki along that day so he could walk some shorter sections with Scott, which at the end of the day Scott said he was a moral booster.
ReplyDeleteBeavers have flooded the bridges just west of VS. sorry! We will have a discussion with the beavers again
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