American thru-hiker, Josh Seehorn, arrives at Cape Henelopen on March 15th
This looks cool. The guy is hiking 6,800 miles from Point Reyes, CA to Cape Henelopen along the American Discovery Trail. He’ll get to the Atlantic on March 15th.
The Delaware Envirothon Planning Committee invites the public to an event welcoming Josh Seehorn, vice chair of the Georgia Envirothon, as he finishes his 6,800 mile hike across the American Discovery Trail – a journey he began last March to raise support and awareness for the North American Envirothon.
The celebration will be held Saturday, March 15, at 3 p.m., at the Atlantic Ocean trailhead of the American Discovery Trail at Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes. Delaware envirothon educators, students and the public will meet and welcome Seehorn at the picnic pavilion, located just past the Seaside Nature Center at the end of Cape Henlopen Drive.
He is very Jesus-ed up, but for a guy who is very Jesus-ed up, he seems very cool.
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According to Wikipedia, Seehorn appears to be the first person to thru-hike the American Discovery Trail west to east.
The first hikers to walk the entire trail, Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.
The first hikers to complete the trail in one continuous walk from February 27, 2005 to October 15, 2005, were Marcia and Ken Powers, wife and husband, from Pleasanton, California. They started out from Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware and ended at Point Reyes, California. They trailed 5,058 miles (8,140 km) by foot, averaging 22 miles (35 km) a day.
The first person to backpack the entire 6,800 miles (including both Northern and Southern sections) in one continuous hike was Mike “Lion King” Daniel. He started from Cape Henlopen State Park on June 17, 2007 and ended at Point Reyes, California on November 5, 2008.
This is very interesting. I have been following another cross-country adventure lately.
http://bikingforbirds.blogspot.com/
The guy is trying to do the whole thing without getting into a vehicle. He started in Boston on Jan 1. Here is his entry for Delaware:
http://bikingforbirds.blogspot.com/2014/01/day-25-warm-and-sunny-not.html
It is interesting to note the minimal ways that one can get to the DelMarVa peninsula on foot or bike. As you dig in to the ADT description, one has to get a taxi (or a friendly motorist) to drive you across the Bay Bridge (and forget about the Bay Bridge Tunnel). The Biking for Birds guy skipped the whole peninsula because there was no route to get across the Chesapeake.
I wondered how Josh planned on crossing the Chesapeake at Annapolis. If you map it on Google maps, there is no pedestrian access, but the ADT clearly crosses from Kent Island to Annapolis.
From the details of MD section of the ADT trail website:
That’s some bullshit.
Yeah, and if you want to cross the Susquehanna, you have to walk/bike to Pennsylvania. Here is a petition to try to fix that:
https://www.change.org/petitions/maryland-department-of-transportation-ensure-that-the-new-amtrak-susquehanna-river-bridge-will-accommodate-cyclists-and-walkers