Al LePage, director of the National Coast Trail Association will be hiking the entire 400-mile Oregon Coast Trail as an “Oregon Coast Legacy Hike” from July 14th to August 12th, 2008 to promote the need both for an “Oregon Coast Legacy Conservation Plan” to preserve the Oregon coast and for everyone to work together.
He will be starting the hike exactly on the same date, and doing it over the same 30-day period, he first hiked it’s entire length twenty years ago in 1988 and will explore and share how it has changed in one generation.
LePage will offer free public events, “Oregon Coast Legacy Hike: Stories and Songs” which are scheduled in Cannon Beach, Lincoln City, Newport, Florence, Coos Bay, Gold Beach and Brookings from 7-9 PM while he’s actually enroute to talk with residents about conservation, share his experiences along the trail and sing some songs.
The planned day-by-day intinerary is available on-line at www.coasttrails.org. …
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