Strider on his way in New Mexico.
Luke Jordan, trail name “Strider” is marching along on the first ever thru hike of the Great Plains Trail! Luke gained thru hiker notoriety three years ago when he completed the North Country Trail as a non stop end-to-end thru hike – one of just a handful of people to have done so. Now he’s chasing spring as he heads north from Guadalupe Mountains National Park to the Canadian border. There will be lots more to come with this, but for now, you can follow his progress on his Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/StriderNCT/
The Great Plains Trail 
Awesome!
I agree, ‘awesome,’ but I wish that you hadn’t misspelled ‘through.’ I infer from this that you are not an English teacher. (<;
Hmmm…I just looked at http://stridernct.com/. It’s misspelled there also. Hiker shorthand?
Yeah, it’s hiker shorthand. I’m not sure how it got started, but that’s the spelling commonly used to refer to a “thru-hike.” I guess when you’re covering 2,000 miles or more, who wants to expend energy on extra letters? 😉