But many young people don't feel that way and we need to invite and involve them. She considers her time on the trail as fun and the organizational skills her gift to the trail effort . Her work experience with the Riverview Intermediate Unit of the local school district has honed those skills. And she is happy to contribute this important piece. Richard likes to hike, but he loves maps.
Maps are like a puzzle to solve.
And it was one such puzzle that got Richard hooked on the North Country Trail when he was just 16. The NCT actually appears on a Pennsylvania state map that Richard had, but he could not find it on the ground. He began gathering info and called Bill Menke of the National Park Service. But Bill was out checking trail, by coincidence, at Beaver Creek, Pennsylvania. Hot on the trail of this trail, Richard chased Bill down and learned that there were still lots of trail miles to be built despite that line on the map.