The Hike

Hike Starting Date: April 9, 2011

Hike Starting Location: Lowell, Michigan

Hike Ending Location Goal: Anchorage, Alaska

Current Route Maps In Progress:

http://www.nps.gov/lecl/index.htm

Canadian and Alaskan Routes still to come... stay tuned!

Alaska Facts
-586,400 Square Miles, 2 times the size of Texas. 33,000 miles of coastline!
-Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7,200,000 roughly 2 cents an acre.
-As well as having the northernmost point in the U.S., Alaska also has both the Eastern most (Semisopochnoi Island in the Aleutian Islands) and Western most (Little Diomede Island) points in the U.S. How? Because Alaska crosses the International Dateline.
-Juneau, Alaska's capital city, has no outside road access and can only be reached by air or water.
-The Alaskan town of Barrow, located only 800 miles from the North Pole, has nearly three months of continuous sunlight beginning on May 10. However, when the sun sets on November 18, Barrow receives no sunlight for over two months.
-During the 20th century, 25% of the global energy released by earthquakes has been released by Alaska earthquakes.
-Half of the public roads in Alaska are unpaved.
-Alaska has an official state fossil - the Woolly Mammoth.
-Alaska accounts for 25% of U.S. oil production. Approximately 90% of Alaska's state revenues come from the production and export of crude oil and natural gas.
-Over the past 300 years, at least 41 different volcanoes have erupted in Alaska.
-The Alaska State Park System is the largest park system in the U.S. with over 3.5 millions acres of land and water.
-Seventeen of the twenty highest peaks in the U.S. are located in Alaska, including the highest - Mt. McKinley (20,320 feet above sea level).
-Over 1/2 the world's Glaciers are here.
-The Alaska state flag was designed by a 13 year-old student from the town of Chignik.
-It’s 55 miles East of Russia.

Sponsoring companies of the Ultimate Hike For A Cure

Bivouac Ann Arbor, MI

Eastern Michigan University

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity

Pace, Inc.

Backpacker Magazine

National Outdoor Leadership Schools

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