Tonight the GG is zoom meeting with North Country Trail folks.

The first time he did a zoom call was in March 2020. You know when that was. I had just become a permanent telecommuter. I still am. My company has recently instituted RTO (return to office) policies but it doesn’t affect meeeee. There isn’t an office within 45 miles of me (any more) and in any case, I would just retaaaar if they really tried to make me drive in to an office. At the time I hired into this job, I didn’t think I would ever have a job again, And then I ended up with this one. 18 years. Jeebus.

So the first North Country Trail hike we took was in the yooperland when the beach urchins were teenagers. They stayed back at the moomincabin with their grandparents. We hiked from M28 to Naomikong. It was a long walk and we got lost a couple times because at that time the trail was not terribly well marked.

A few years after that, the GG went to meet up with a bunch of folks that were trying to start up a sorta formal North Country Trail chapter. If I get it right, none of them knew each other and nobody knew exactly what they needed to do. Fast forward a bunch of years and the Hiawatha Shore-to-Shore portion of the trail is very well maintained. No way to get lost any more and there are all kinds of folks who maintain the trails and a few certified chain sawyers who take care of downed trees. The GG is one of the certified sawyers.

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