Day 183: Connecting Route, Polk County
Day 183: Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Total Miles covered for the day: 0.7; Net Miles 0.0
0.7 Miles of trail covered
Well, this wasn't very good planning.
Two weeks ago Theresa and I were in Polk County hiking off the new piece of the St. Croix Falls Segment, part of the Gandy Dancer Segment and several bits of connecting route. I drove home on that Sunday alone while Theresa stayed out in Luck to finish walking the area that I managed to finish before her.
What I should have done, if I had a brain in my head, was drive over to this little piece of connecting route on my way home and do a quick out-and-back. It's what Theresa did on her way home that week, and so I was now faced with seven tenths of a mile of hiking to do in Polk County that Theresa had already completed. This was 56 miles and over an hour's drive west of anything else I had left to cover.
Two hours of extra driving to walk 0.7 miles of rural road. I'm not going to pretend I was happy to have discovered that ten days ago.
So here we were on a Friday night driving 170 miles all the way out to Polk County to close out a tiny gap and bring the trail closer to home. I walked south to north, not that there's much distinction in that. I finished at 9:09 pm and snapped this photo of the sign to commemorate the amazing adventure.
Together we drove back Cornell for an overnight. Tomorrow I would be doing the other connecting route that Theresa had already hiked but I had bicycled in June of 2021, one week shy of exactly one year ago.
The tally:
- No new Snails today
- Completed map 4
- Completed Polk County
- Converted 0.7 miles of biking to the 'hiked' category
- 234.8 miles to go
Running Total: 1212.2 miles of trail covered (902.2 hiked), 197.0 miles 'extra' hiking/biking. End of Day 183.
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