A 500-mile hiking trail across Alaska? Advocates say the pandemic is a perfect time to start

A 500-mile hiking trail across Alaska? Advocates say the pandemic is a perfect time to start

Posted by on Aug 29, 2020 @ 6:53 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: August 28, 2020

Since the pandemic started, storefronts in towns around Alaska may have emptied, but trails? “They’re jammed with people, and that’s all the trails — trails up in the Chugach all the trails here in town,” said former Alaska Governor Tony Knowles, standing on the Coastal Trail near downtown Anchorage. Park use around Alaska is up over 150% since the start of the pandemic,...

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