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Article: Peak experiences Pick up the International Appalachian Trail in Canada.(Going Places)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- June 12, 2005
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Byline: George Oxford Miller Daily Herald Correspondent
From our viewpoint in Forillon National Park in Quebec, the cliff drops 200 feet into the rolling waves of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Nesting cormorants and kittywakes swoop from their cliffside condos into the surf for a seafood buffet. Gray seals laze on a rock just offshore. We drove to the viewpoint, but we could have walked ... all the way from Georgia.
Most hikers will tell you that the Appalachian Trail ends in Maine in Baxter State Park, or more specifically atop Mount Katahdin. That was true until 2000. Just as the Appalachian Mountains recognize no national borders and extend into Canada, ...