Our Spirit of the Woods Chapter of the NCTA has a new position called Communications Coordinator, and one of the duties of that person is to work on outreach opportunities to tell more people about the trail. Her first big effort was to get us in the Troutarama Parade in Baldwin. Taylor is in the yellow shirt.
The parade was a decent length and a lot of people turn out for this. (It's a four-day event with all kinds of activities)
We handed out candy and flyers about the trail.
I've shown you this once before, but this is the statue commemorating that Baldwin was where brown trout were first released in the United States in 1884.
The statue now has a very nice garden with a couple of benches around it.
And coneflowers
The parade got me some walking, and then I had to go right past the trail on the way home, so I stopped and got in some more miles.
It was a little cooler and a little less smokey. There is a lovely breeze that made life tolerable. Still, not much else happened. I didn't sleep well last night and had trouble getting up this morning.
Miles walked in 2026: 219.1
Hike 100 Challenge: 80
Onekama Challenge: 31
Two miles in Baldwin for the parade and to get to my car- 2 miles. NCT, Lake County, MI, Timber Creek to Wingleton Rd and back 4 miles.
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Hopefully the exposure in the parade will attract more people to your chapter.
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