Route 70, Muhlenburg County to
Greenville Shoe Store, Kentucky
~ 14.0 miles - Thursday - February 5, 1981 - Day 300Click on photos for larger versions. Click on text links for additional content.
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Kentucky map
Kentucky route information |
The Progression of HikaNation - Kentucky
details the journey with various organizational
memos, letters, newspaper and magazine articles. |
Unofficial Kentucky campsites
Unofficial HikaNation Campsites List
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Frozen swamp land
(photo by William Ewart) |
Rob Burns, Ben Lazarus, "Walking Bob" Rowe
Road Hiking in Kentucky
(photo by William Ewart) |
"Hikers agree.....
You'll never know if you can do it until you try"
and "Crossing the U.S." news articles
(articles provided by American Hiking Society) |
Greenville Shoe Store "campsite"
(photo by Marce Guerrein) |
Jerry Benson, Mike Collins, Jeannie Harmon
(photo by Susan "Butch" Henley
or Rex Halfpenny) |
"Kelty Mike" Collins and Marika Matyus
(photo by William Ewart) |
An intense game of backgammon between
Mike Halm and Tim "Tex" Mingus
inside the Greenville shoe store.
(photo by William Ewart) |
From William Ewart's journal:
Road hiking in Peabody Coal Company Mining areas today....under a conveyer belt this am.
Lots of dangerous traffic on the road walking today. Knees and arches aching.
Possible hypothermia setting in (??) during a conversation with Ben, Walking Bob, and Rob:
Toffee Toffee, Coffee Toffee, Chocolate Toffee, Toffee Coffee, etc.
Greenville Shoe Store owner graciously opened up his store and allowed 30 or more of us
to camp out in the heated building for tonight and tomorrow's Rest Day.
Baptist Church dinner tonight was overwhelming with at least 30 varieties of food:
corn, broccili suffle, cole slaw, potato salad, carrot salad, salad salad, fried chicken,
meatloaf, beef stew, beef and noodles, and on and on!!!! Coffee and tea.
Pies and cakes and huge chocolate chip cookies - oh my!!
A tour of the mining area tomorrow.
From "Crossing the U.S." news article:
The only difficulty the hikers expressed about walking through Muhlenberg County was the coal trucks
passing them. Tim Mingus said his pack is like a kite: when a truck passes him, he sometimes gets blown
into a ditch.
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