It hasn't happened much, and to do it multiple times like Hinesh is rare. Those who wish to become a Thousand Miler can register online with the Ice Age Trail Alliance, a nonprofit organization that works with 19 regional chapters to conserve, create, protect and maintain the trail. The route Hinesh hiked Sunday was part of her connecting route between the Tisch Mills and Kewaunee County segments. MORE: Pit spitting, hockey, ice carving, toilet seat tossing: Here's four outdoor winter events in Door CountyįOR MORE KEWAUNEE COUNTY NEWS: Check out our homepageįrom there, the next segment starts in Casco, where it follows the Ahnapee State Trail to Kewaunee, Algoma and on into Door County and Potawatomi State Park. Croix Falls, it heads east to Antigo, then winds south to Janesville, then north-northeast through the Kettle Moraine area to Manitowoc, Mishicot and Tisch Mills. If one starts from the trail's western terminus in St. Thousand Milers don't necessarily have to follow the trail from one end to the other in one long adventure, but they have to hike all the segments and hike connections between them to make it count. Hiking the entire route actually covers between 1,100 and 1,200 miles, with 680 miles of blazed and marked trail segments and about 500 miles of suggested connecting routes to get from one segment to the next, although hikers can create their own connections. It follows the outline of the most recent glacier that retreated from the state thousands of years ago, winding through 30 counties. The Ice Age Trail is one of 11 National Scenic Trails in the country. Also on hand was her husband, Mike, whose family also is from the area her brother, Lawrence, Jr. So, besides choosing to finish at Parallel 44 - "being a great place to celebrate afterward, at a winery," Hinesh said with a laugh - she also wanted to finish in front of her parents, Lawrence, Sr., and Emily Krummel, who still live on the farm near Stangelville where Laura grew up. The first time Hinesh joined the Thousand Miler club, she finished at the eastern terminus of the trail, in Potawatomi State Park in Sturgeon Bay, in August of 2020, ending a trek that began in October of 2018.īut for her second thousand miles, she wanted to finish in Kewaunee County, where she was born and raised.
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