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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Luke “Strider” Jordan will share his story of his 4,600 mile hike through the North Country National Scenic Trail. His presentation starts at 6:30pm tonight in the Skoal Room of the VCSU Student Center. The public is welcome to attend.

Jordan started his hike at Lake Sakakawea State Park on March 27 of 2013 and enjoyed some relatively easy hiking across North Dakota before enduring 5 straight weeks of new snowfall requiring almost constant snowshoeing from the Sheyenne National Grasslands to just east of Minnesota’s Itasca State Park. 

Once spring arrived in Wisconsin, horrendous clouds of mosquitoes followed him before record heat waves struck in Ohio and Pennsylvania.  He finished hiking the NCT when he reached Crown Point State Historic Site on the shores of Lake Champlain in NY on October 13 of 2013. 

Luke Jordan is a 2012 graduate of St. Cloud State University earning a degree in Ecology & Natural Resources.  He has been a volunteer on the Superior Hiking Trail (SHT) since 2010 and it was during a work weekend there that he learned it was slated to be part of the much larger NCT. 

Tonight attendees will follow along as he traverses this trail from the vast plains of North Dakota around the Great Lakes to the high peaks of the Appalachian Mountains.

The presentation is being hosted by the VCSU Business Department and the Sheyenne River Valley Chapter of the non-profit North Country Trail Association.

Learn more about Luke’s hike at his website www.stridernct.com.  Learn more about the Sheyenne River Valley Chapter at www.northcountrytrail.org/srv.