Luke strider jordan biography

Strider has a couple of very impressive treks on his resume, including the North Country Trail, which is more than twice the length of the Appalachian Trail.
Bio of Luke 'Strider' Jordan.
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Thru-Hiking The Great Plains Trail

Luke Jordan Completes Great Plains Trail Through Hike

Strider on the Great Plains Trail

Luke Jordan, also known as Strider, was the first person to complete a thru-hike of the Great Plains Trail. Now he is giving back to the Great Plains Trail community through his service on the GPTA Board of Directors and an upcoming speaking tour.

Bio of Luke ‘Strider’ Jordan

Luke Jordan grew up on a farm in central Minnesota about 30 miles from Minneapolis. During his college years he started getting into backpacking and volunteered on trail construction crews for the Superior Hiking Trail every summer. He graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in Natural Resources, and immediately after attempted a thru hike of the North Country National Scenic Trail. He succeeded, and became the 4th person to successfully thru-hike that trail. Since then he’s been involved with several trail organizations, including participating in the Partnership for the National Trail System’s (PNTS) Trail Apprentice

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Aaron Rodgers' 2 Brothers: All About Jordan and Luke Rodgers — and the Rift That Has Kept Them Apart From the Quarterback for a Decade

Aaron Rodgers has had a number of ups and downs with his two brothers, Jordan and Luke, through the years.

The New York Jets quarterback was born in 1983 to his parents, Edward and Darla Rodgers, following his brother Luke, who the family had welcomed the previous year. Jordan was born five years later, in August 1988. Like his older brother, Jordan also grew up playing quarterback.

However, as the three Rodgers brothers got older, Aaron had a rift with Jordan and Luke. During his now-wife JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette, Jordan explained that the NFL star was estranged from the family while he had chosen to "stay close" to his parents and Luke.

Aaron Rodgers' Family: Inside His Ups and Downs with His Parents and Brothers

“It’s something we don’t really like to talk about a whole lot,” he told Fletcher during her hometown visit to meet his family. “It pains both of us like, not to have that relationship [with Aaron]

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New 250-Mile Segment Beckons Hikers to the Great Plains Trail

First published at The Trek (thetrek.co) Dec. 6, 2018.

GPT Pilot Trail At-a-Glance

Trail: Pilot trail of the Great Plains Trail
Distance: About 250 miles
Location: From Scottsbluff, NE, to Bear Butte, SD
Information: www.greatplainstrail.org
Maps: The Great Plains Trail Alliance plans to post a pdf version of a databook in February or March 2019.

The Great Plains Trail is America’s newest long-distance trail. The brainchild of Steve Myers of Longmont, CO, the trail’s official birth year is 2012, when he registered the Great Plains Trail Alliance as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

At just over 2,100 miles, the current route traverses as much public land as possible as it meanders north from the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, across the Oklahoma Panhandle, through eastern Colorado and western Nebraska, across South and North Dakota, to finish at the Canada border in Montana.

As a new trail, much of the route as currently mapped follows back roads rather than trails. However, one man, Luke “Strider” Jord