Day 9 – Saturday – Hiking the North Country Trail

John and I were dropped off along the North Country Trail and hiked back about 7 miles to a spot where the trail crosses US 63 a few miles from Dot’s house. The NCT is a collection of trails, supervised by the National Park Service. When it’s complete, it will run from North Dakota to New York, some 1000 miles longer than the Appalachian Trail. It’s beautiful and green, though buggy. We packed a fishing pole, since we passed about one lake each mile, but most of the lakes are extremely low, and overgrown along the shore, due to a dry winter last year, and the fishing wasn’t very good. John is a very able hiking buddy, and really showed his stuff the last two miles, after we’d given up on fishing and were exhausted.

We came home to a ham roasting outside, and John ate his largemouth bass that he caught on Thursday. It was excellent!