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Ultimate Hugh Heward Challenge
April 19 – May 6, 2009
Follows original route of the Heward party from Detroit to Chicago including an 8 mile overland portage from the Huron River watershed to the Grand River watershed
Includes up river travel, big open water on Lake Michigan and Lake Erie, many difficult portages & adverse springtime weather
Paddle
430 Miles Long
Start May 2009 or Fall 2009 at Wisconsin/Michigan border & end at Mississippi River
Basin covers 1/5 of the state through 25 counties
Drops 1,067 feet
Hike
244 Miles
Routed principally along the ridgeline overlooking Lake Superior
Goes through 7 State Parks
Variety of wildlife & forests, waterfalls & rivers
One of the 10 Best Trails in America (Backpacker Magazine)
Bike
Roughly parallels the Continental Divide Trail
2,709 miles
Longest mapped and published off-pavement bike route in the world
The route crosses the Continental Divide a total of 30 times
Starts in Banff National Park in the southern Canadian Rockies Passes through the mountains of Montana and Idaho, meanders down through the Tetons into the barren high desert lands of Wyoming, ascends up & over several 10,000 to 12,000’ passes in Colorado, & switchbacks through rugged mountainous sections of New Mexico before finally dropping into the Chihuahuan Desert
