I just a rough projection and with two new camp sites in just about the right locations, hikers could bisect The Wilderness Loop's 10 day trip into a 5 days in the west and 6 in the east. They would use an unofficial bypass between Macksburg and the on-road camping shelter on the Road Fork Section. It would be 9.64 miles from Whipple to Road Fork Sections by way of the north of Ales Run State Wildlife Area.
I asked for some advice on North Country Trail's former Facebook group regarding full time working people with families getting to The Wilderness Loop that live outside of Ohio. And the responses that I got were for 13 days at the time and they pretty much said absolutely would not be possible. As the Whipple Section Supervisor - BT (NCT concurrent), I'm going to work to get this audience. That's the primary reason why I'm looking for ways to shave this down. And in two is really the only practical way to do it because Wilderness is a longer shaped loop and between Macksburg and the on-road Road Fork Section shelter is right about where it's at it's thinnest.
For the last 3 years and now with Adventurer's Project, I've been developing the hiker program. I take a very analytical and logistical view of the trail. In this case, I examine it's performance for multiple audiences. And to tell you the truth, this assessment was for those who are capable of hiking at a typical thru hike rate. But the initiative to make the Buckeye Trail 10 Miler compliant could probably solve those two missing campsites of the 5 and 6.
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