VO],UME
VI,
NUMBI.]R ED
2
RUT}I AND TIIN WOLFE
I - NOTE
e have once ag"ain heard from ut.h MacFarlane which is always reat news because of her kind f good news. Some portions of her lett.er are reproduced belorv No one can say it bet.ter than Ruth herself. Dear Co-Eds:
L/ 30/ 87
SPRING, 1987
t.o hear f rom them also. The Michigan Natura,f, Besources m4ga zine has expressed an interest in an article on Peter LToIfe and the NCT. They jusL bought another article of miner so I can trus t t.hat they mean bus iness on the second one.
putting out the Newsletter and holding us together. I awitit more news of t.he 1990 endKeep
fhank you f or the Ia t.es E edi t ion to-end hike. In fact Lhat is of the Newslet.ter. I always my submission for the name of It comb t.hrough i t caref uIly. the hike ! The ETE on the NCT is such an effect.ive tool in in 9-0. holding the I{CTA t.ogeLher. Some of us cannot get away to travel Sincerely, the Iong dis tances t,o the meetings, but you make us f eel rve Ruth B. MacFarlane 'are a part of it alI. My big project is that I am writing a book about Pet.e. Last. January he brought, me all his journals, photos, maps, and Then we mementoes of the trail. made many hours of voice tapes of his memories of his seven summers of hiking. I have t.ranscribed j ournals and Lapes , edited, and have just sent off the account of his first year's hike (L974) to my agent, and have yet to hear what he thinks of it. I am very errLhusiastic about Lhe book and plan Eo go on with it, even i,f. I have t.o search a long time for a pub1i-
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A couple of weeks ago I went to Munising,. Michigan where they were holding snowshoe races on
a portion of Lhe NCT. It was some spectacle--people running on snowshoes on courses 4.5 and 9 rniles long! They had some more Ieisurely walks for novices also . I am trying t.o interes t the Michigan AAA magazine in an article on hiking the trail as a break from driving. I have yet
Ttre above candid snapsho! shows NCTA President Bob Dries clearing traiI on last summer's long l'r i ke in Lhe U. P.. and he swore he 'rvould not lie abouL a thing like this. EDI-NOTE - The Editors are wondering it this story is about as ta11 as that t,ree.