Big Red Canoe - Friends of the Boundary Waters podcast

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The Trail Finds You - Crystal Gail Welcome

The Trail Finds You - Crystal Gail Welcome11 jun49 min

The Superior Hiking Trail turns 40 this year. Three hundred miles of North Shore ridgeline, from the Wisconsin border to the edge of the Boundary Waters region, the SHT has shaped the lives of everyone who’s walked it. Crystal Gail Welcome is one of those people — and on this podcast, she shares the story of her final through-hike: a solo back-to-back of the Kekekabic and Border Route Trails, deep in the Boundary Waters wilderness. After years of pushing through a rare brain disease to walk s...