Tanawha Marathon (Double Traverse) North-South-North

Submitted by Ashley Goodman on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 05:00pm
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The Tanawha (Cherokee for “fabulous hawk” or “fabulous eagle”) Trail is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Grandfather Mountain in northwest North Carolina.  According to its National Park Service (NPS) website and map , the trail is 13.5 miles long; however, other websites and trail signs marked it as 13.1 or 13.3 miles.  GPS will often measure short, due to the heavily wooded areas.  The northern end

OK Panhandle

Submitted by walkingisntasport on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 03:57pm
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In 2016, National Geographic ranked the Oklahoma panhandle in the bottom 30% of American panhandles, writing:

"All we have to do [in the OK panhandle] is go to movies and have sex,” a waitress in a Guymon steakhouse told me...In other words, it can take some creativity to find things to do in Oklahoma's panhandle—the most obvious “panhandle” shape in the States." - Robert Reid, National Geographic (2016)

Make that Sex, Movies and FKTs.