What Makes the Superior Hiking Trail so Great? ep2
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- What makes the Superior Hiking Trail the best first thru hike? A combination of incredible autumn scenery, a wonderfully well made and marked trail easy to navigate, towns that are no more than 50 miles apart, and campsites that are on average just three miles apart. A friendly community surrounding this hike, and mild weather all add up to a really great walk across Minnesota. So for anyone aspiring to do a hike like the Appalachian Trail, start here first!
SHT Guide with stats, photos, and information from our hike!
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For someone wanting to get into thru hiking and long distance hiking, I think the Superior Hiking Trail is the perfect place to start. Everything about it is friendly and helpful, and I don't just mean the community of hikers surrounding it. The trail itself is extremely well marked, maintained, and all around easy to navigate. The towns are not far apart and on average just 50 miles away from one another. The climbs are frequent and the footing can be tricky, but it's still nothing compared to many other trails out there. Water is abundant, and campsites all have latrines and benches. The weather is mild and bugs aren't so bad in September and October. There aren't any significant roadwalks, while many other trails have tons. Everything about this hike is just a good time. A great place to learn, to try new gear, and to practice skills or spend time alone in the woods.
Add on that this hike is otherworldly in the autumn months. Every color you could ever imagine just exploding all around you. Having done the Long Trail of Vermont, the Appalachian Trail, and the Pinhoti Trail in the fall I feel qualified to say that the SHT has the best fall foliage and colors of them all. So if you love leaf peeping, crazy colors, fun lighting.... this is as good as it gets! Every mile of the entire hike is bursting with fall colors.
So all this to say, this is the best beginner thru hike, the best first thru hike, the best place to try new things, the best trail for fall colors, and all around just a great time.
00:00 - Recap of SHT Beginning
01:51 - Beach Hiking
04:00 - Back in the Woods!
06:57 - Is this the Best First Thru Hike?
09:59 - Thank you for watching :)
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Thank you for watching! I just published a guide for this trail as well with all sorts of stats, photos, and information I gathered from our thru hike jupiterhikes.com/2024/01/04/how-to-thru-hike-the-310mi-superior-hiking-trail/
Super recommendations!
Its so great, that you upload these hikes when the wheather seems dull and grey.
Hiking season so far away.
It truly brightens the end of my day.
Thanks mate
Your hike at this time of year was wise as you missed the greatest challenge of hiking in Minnesota: the mosquitos! Great video, SHT (in my home state) is now on my list, for a fall thru-hike!
Great to feature a trail suitable for beginners on your channel and thanks for taking the time to film the amazing autumn colours.
Thanks so much for sharing this. The SHT is a bucket list item for me ever since I did two 80 and 75 mile paddles in the Boundary Waters and saw Bigfoot and Frozen's videos. Can't imagine how stunning it must have been with all the fall color. I'm happy you got to do it!
It's really great! Got a little bit of everything for anyone
Those leaves were absolutely stunning!
The best I've ever had hiking!
Happy to see you add your start date and maybe other dates along the way and when you finish. Very important information but seems to be left out of almost all hiking videos I watch, kudos to you Jupiter
If you want more information like that I wrote a big guide for the SHT with all sorts of stats, details, and photos from our hike jupiterhikes.com/2024/01/04/how-to-thru-hike-the-310mi-superior-hiking-trail/
Superior is largest by surface area and contains more water than the other great lakes combined, but Russia's Lake Baikal, holding 20 percent of the world's freshwater, is largest by volume. Superior is third by volume.
That grouse was so cool!
Cool to see you in my neck of the woods Jupiter, I've been watching for many years. Hope you had fun and enjoyed the lake. Come back in the summer some time to enjoy some swimming.
Whoa this along with your incredibly detailed guide is so helpful. I think I just decided this’ll be my first thru hike once I’m up for it.
Love it! It was so cool to relive my experience on the trail! Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did, and shared it with the larger community!
As usual, amazing video.
It looks like you chose a great time of year, the colors are outstanding
love the glimpse of camp
I think you summed up the trail so well. Thanks for sharing our gem with the world; it deserves to be hiked more.
Looks like a very pretty and pleasant trail to walk. Love the fall colors.
Love you his area and so blessed to live in North Ontario now❤ Keep up on exploring 👍
Thanks for showing off the SHT…..I’ve been hiking and promoting it for over 30 years…Glad you enjoyed it
thank you . SHT is a great trail
Featuring my artwork! Holy shit! 🫣🎉
Nice hike my friend❗️❗️❗️happy holidays and all the best to both of you👋👋👋👋greetings from Toronto
incredible
I live in Duluth, MN. which is close to the southern terminus of the trail. I think about fifty miles of the trail runs through the town. I've hiked many sections of the trail and have done a week long hike from the northern terminus south. It is quite beautiful. It nice you enjoyed the trail.
Good job
Planning on doing this with my 12 year old daughter to start our first overnight hiking adventure. I've done dayhikes, but never a 3-4 day hike before. Looking forward to it!
The SHT is perfect for it! So many sections along this trail are really incredible, the only area I would say is not as good as the others is south of Two Harbors - north of Duluth. Other than that small bit it's all great
I agree with everything about this trail save for one aspect. Getting too and from the Northern Terminus(NT) is or can be a challenge and potentially expensive. There is no public transportation from Duluth to Grand Marais that we could find. One of the trail angel contacts we found wanted $250 for the trip. Understandable….it’s 110 miles or so one way just to Grand Marais from Duluth. It’s another 35 miles to the NT. We managed to find a trail angel on FB who gave us a ride all the way to the NT (gave him a hefty “donation” because it was a great ride and conversation along the way). We started after Labor Day 2022 and hiked to Grand Marais and needed to get off for an emergent health reason BUT we met some great people there. A guy who saw us walking down the hill and gave us ride to the campground and then a tour of the city and to dinner!! The next day we met a couple who gave us a ride all the way back to Duluth. This trail is definitely worth the iffy logistics though. Absolutely beautiful! We will return in the next couple of years to complete it!
Thanks for the beautiful video!
I just did a quick look and it appears there may be a bus now which travels between duluth and grand marais, though I don't know if that's current. If it isn't then definitely trouble! I'd be interested in hearing someones experience who had tried hitch hiking there or back. In theory it's just one direct and long road, and I've hitch hiked further than that before too! Still not an option most would want to go about, I'm just curious. A lot of trails which aren't a loop and something along these lines is a reality unfortunately. The 250 is a lot but it's not unheard of. When I did the Sheltowee Trace I paid the same to get back to my car after finishing(by a company who i knew the owner!). On the Great Divide it's 250-450$ to get a ride back from the end. On the long trail I paid about 200 to get to the northern terminus. It would be amazing if there was a bus of some sort that went that way. Otherwise trail angels are.... angels! And hopefully can help some along the way.
@@JupiterHikes Thanks Jupiter! I was told then that they used to have a bus that ran up and down between the two but it was suspended during Covid and never restarted …. Maybe it has now.👍. Once at Grand Marais I think it might be fairly easy to find a ride to the NT. The city buses in Duluth are great if you need to get around that town. (Also I thought you might appreciate that my wife is starting the FT in about a week. Hot Diggity!)
Sprocket needs her own channel
Always good. Thanks. :>)
I'm a homer for the SHT, and I would highly recommend making the
We wound up doing something similar and went to Betty's Pies! Was great, and should have packed a whole one back out to the trail
With the exception of Lake Michigan, all of the Great Lakes are in Canada too. I'm sure our friendly Canadian neighbors would appreciate that recognition.
Didn't realize they were hiking through Canada here, wild.
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Sold!
This was the coolest experience to watch this video and see my artwork 😭
In the GGG office?? It's really awesome! Adds a lot of fun to the space!
@@JupiterHikesyup! That pencil drawing of the PCT terminus! I have more prints! My favorite piece of art to date!
Incredible!! Definitely loved that drawing, and all the thru hiking inspired art in their office.
Caminhar é muito divertido, pode aliviar o estresse e o tédio. Vamos fazer caminhadas
Would love to know where Miss Sprocket got the dress. I think it’s a great hiking outfit!
She says for a hiking dress that you want a synthetic material, pockets are bonus, and something longish for windy days. She get’s all of hers from thrift stores.
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Did you or Sprocket ( I still say it should be Jupiter from Jupiter and Aussie from Australia) draw the Pokémon on the groundsheet? Beautiful video.
It's a custom print tyvek made by a friend of a friend :)
26 or 27 I'm there, maybe Autumn leaves will come with me
Hi
Did you have any ticks or was it too cold for them to be out and about much just wondering
Not a single tick, and hardly remember any mosquitoes!
Please share what the shelter you two were using.
The yama cirriform 2p tarp
is that a Yama Mountain Gear Cirriform?
Yeah!
You said it was "one of the Great Lakes in the United States" but you didn't mention why it is so great.
They're like really big
Lol
What is the circle shaped thingy that Sprocket carries on the outside of her pack?
Aha! I see, it's a frisbee! Neat
An Aerobie Frisbee! Maybe telling of what our motivation for this hike was.
Cool. Town to Town.. Rather like the Camino de Santiago I would imagine.
A bit more wilderness I think! But certainly more frequent towns than a lot of trails
Oh right for sure. Much more wild-er-ness @@JupiterHikes
Did you bump into Shug?
Nope! I watched quite a lot of his videos back in the day but hadn't remembered he's from the area!
Love the SHT but the highest point on the trail is pretty anticlimactic lolol