Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Redwood Creek Wines has announced that the Arizona Trail Association (ATA) was named the winning environmental organization after a Summer long, nationwide vote at Redwood Creek. Arizona residents and Arizona Trail friends from across the USA rallied behind the ATA, helping the organization to reach nearly 27,000 votes and winning the grand prize of $50,000.
Fred G
Now we can put in that water fountain I always wanted between the Snowbowl and Tusayan!!!
Guino
Lets spend some of that cash cutting out the manzanitas that completely block the trail at times?
For those of you that got to know the German Tourist of Berlin who is on her world domination trail tour… after cycling the loneliest road from Utah across Nevada to Calif; she planed it over to australia downunderlike.
she had already knocked out the Bibbulman track (I put her complete description on trail journals, I think planning forum)… so she moved onto the Larapinta trail in central Australia… having endured a cyclone on the B. track; she now had record flooding on the Larapinta track up by Uluru or Ayers Rock… after a “backpacker’s bus tour” (mostly euro tourists) of Uluru/King’s Canyon/Olga’s Mtns… she cycled the desert to rainforest road from Alice Springs up to Darwin, with a nice roadhouse every 100km & Japanese tourists cycling the other direction. Then after much trouble getting a bike box at the airport, she flew down to Adelaide to knock out the Great SW Walk of South Australia, with rain 7 out of 8 days; but an extremely varied terrain from forest to beach.
After that winter craziness, she tackled the Heysen trail… on Sept 14, during more record rain (6 months worth in 2 days) she was attempting to cross a creek bridge while hiking next to the Bundaleer Canal; when the flood weakened bank gave way beneath her & she dropped 5 m
(15+ feet) into the quickmud… after extricating her bloody self, she found a nearby station (ranch or rural house) where Heather & John fixed her up & cleaned her up (he had some kind of EMT training) & sent her on her merry way, thus making her the most awesomely adventurous hiker in the history of perhapsness!!!
gingerbreadman
If you could read her last winter’s account of canoeing the Florida canoe routes (sea & swamp); hike-wading the Fla Trail; hike-bushwhack-snow sliding the AZT; & all the rest I have somewhat described, you would realize this insanely adventurous Amazon Deutschlander is only a danger to herself… as bad weather luck has dogged her every step of the way, starting with the SB appalachian trail 09. Viel gluck meine damen und herren fremden und freunden.
gingerbreadman
Her wild adventures started much earlier than the AT in 2009. Met GT on the PCT in 2004. I hope someday, she puts all her journals/blog into a book.
Cicelyb