Hello welcome to another episode of Papa Bear Heights.

Well as many of you know I love talking about the lesser known trails.

We all know about the Big Three, the Appalachian Trail, continental divide, the Pacific Crest, but there's so many

of these other trails out there that just, well they haven't been beaten up as much as the

Appalachian Trail.

And again, I don't want to sound like I'm dwelling on this, but over the last several years of being on the Appalachian Trail, it might need a break and it might be a time for many of us to start looking for other hiking opportunities, which is a reason why I'm always looking to talk about these other trails.

Today I'm going to talk about the Superior hiking trail and that's on my long list and

list is getting longer and longer but I'm not going to be the one doing all the talking this time.

We have a special guest to talk about this trail that's in Minnesota, runs from Wisconsin

and ends at the Canadian border, if you're going northbound that is and it's 310 miles. Our

guest is an author public speaker experimental educator social

environmental justice advocate and a hikovist.

I love that one.

I think I'm pretty, I'm gonna consider myself a hikovist.

A proud black outdoor leader and lover of the planet.

Crystal Gale, welcome to Papa Bear Hikes.

Thank you so much for having you.

I appreciate being here.

I'm excited.

Yeah, and this is exciting because this is a trail I started looking at three or four years ago and when I read your article

and just to let everybody know I found Crystal using the trek which is a blog for hikers and I read this

and I said okay let me see if Crystal come on and talk about

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