Add chairs to the list of what trail runners stumble upon. By chairs, I mean the relaxing kind, the back-porch-on-a-Sunday-evening kind in which slowing down is possible. Last summer, some gracious soul(s) left two of these chairs overlooking Lake Brandt just steps away from the City of Greensboro’s Palmetto Trail. I had made my run beginning on
Adam Shull
As Assistant Director of Regional Planning at the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, I get to collaborate with the entire host of stakeholders who develop and sustain the Triad's collective outdoor recreation economy. You'll often find me and my two young boys on Greensboro's Nat Greene Trail. If they "beat me" by finishing the hike ahead of me, we have to get ice cream near the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. I've yet to finish a hike first.
The reality is that Oak Ridge, N.C., resident Jonathan Beaver doesn’t need much extra incentive to hike or run on the many trails in the NC Triad. Since his days as a track and cross-country runner at Western Guilford High School, he’s enjoyed wearing out shoes on trails from Pilot Mountain to Pleasant Garden and routes in between. But now