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ziggy53
Jul-02-2008, 06:13 AM
From around Springfield, IL, during a "Lincoln Heritage Trail" walk, roughly re-tracing the route that Abraham Lincoln took from New Salem to Springfield while he was a law student.

It's over 20 miles and the Scouts are pretty tired afterwards, but Lincoln used to walk both there and back in a single day (over 40 miles)!

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schmoo
Jul-06-2008, 09:12 AM
Ziggy! Thanks for posting this. What a lovely winding road. I would really like to take a hike down this peaceful-looking trail, too. So did the scouts walk all 20 miles???
ian408
Jul-06-2008, 09:42 AM
Wow. That's quite a walk for a day.
ziggy53
Jul-22-2008, 06:43 PM
Ziggy! Thanks for posting this. What a lovely winding road. I would really like to take a hike down this peaceful-looking trail, too. So did the scouts walk all 20 miles???

Woops sorry. I got busy and forgot about this thread.

Yes, all of the Scouts in our troop finished, although some took some encouragement to complete the task.
ziggy53
Jul-22-2008, 06:46 PM
Wow. That's quite a walk for a day.

Yes it is. My son made the walk 6 times (I think) over as many years.