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Welcome to Chief Noonday's Home Page!

Volunteer Hour Reports Needed!

If you haven't reported your Volunteer Hours for the 3rd Quarter of 2008 yet, please take a few minutes to read this and use the link provided to report your hours

It really counts for the Association and your Chapter when you do! 

 

And welcome to the North Country National Scenic Trail in southwestern Michigan.

Our chapter links trails from Barry County (just southeast of Grand Rapids), thru the northeast corner of Kalamazoo County, and then thru all of Calhoun County

Walk the Linear Pathway through the heart of the World's Cereal City, in Battle Creek.  Visit the exhibits in the Kellogg Forest and Kellogg Farms.  See and hear Trumpeter Swans at the world famous Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. 

Hike over lush farmland and tramp the back roads of a part of Michigan where there are so many lakes they are referred to by number.  Sit on the benches and while away a few minutes or hours in the sleepy little villages of Augusta,  Delton, and Prairieville. 

Walk through miles of hardwood forest in the Barry State Game Area, the Yankee Springs Recreational Area, and the Middleville State Game Area.  Walk along what once was a busy railroad route along the Thornapple River -- now the Paul Henry Thornapple Trail south of Middleville.

Whether you are taking an afternoon walk or a several day hike, the North Country National Scenic Trail welcomes you!

If you would like to officially join our organization, please click here, or contact our chapter president, Larry Hawkins, by telephone at (269) 945-5398, or by e-mail at hawkeyemd@cablespeed.com.

Please click on any of the desired categories in the kiosk to the left for the topics you are interested in.
 

Our Yahoo! Group

 

You can subscribe to Chief Noonday E-Mail's to be sent to you for news, announcements, reminders, special events, etc., by joining our Chief Noonday Yahoo! Group.  Go through the following steps: 

  1. Go to the Chief Noonday Yahoo Group page.
  2. Click on the blue Join This Group! button, and either sign in with your Yahoo ID and password, if you already have one, or else create a new Yahoo ID for yourself. 
  3. To do the latter, where it says Don't have a Yahoo ID? click on the Sign Up link and set up a Yahoo ID for yourself.
  4. After you have set up a Yahoo! ID and e-mail address for yourself, go to the Chief Noonday Yahoo! Group Join page, complete the three steps, enter their security text in the box, and click on the blue Join button at the bottom.  And you'll be in!

You can terminate at any time.   Your email address will NOT  be given out by Chief Noonday to those outside our group,  for any other purpose.  (Note: If you join the Yahoo! Group but do not receive an acknowledgement to your Yahoo! e-mail address, please notify the Webmaster.) 

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Battle Creek is the center of Chief Noonday's section of the Trail.  Our current hiking weather is shown below.  (If an error message is being displayed, the sponsoring site is experiencing technical trouble.)

  Current Radar

Today's Forecast (top)

Current Conditions (bottom)

 

 
  What's new?

▪ We had some "outside help" for a special weekday workday in the Middleville State Game area last week.  See the Trail Log.

▪ The President's Photo from this year's Annual Conference at Cazenovia is available on-line.

▪ Thanks to all who helped with Chief Noonday's booth in this year's Summerfest in Hastings.

▪ Help needed for a special work project in northern Lower Michigan.  See the Trail Log.

▪ HIKER MISSING ON NCNST.  See the Trail Log.

▪ See the Trail Log for Larry Hawkins' report on the NCTA Annual Conference at Cazenovia, NY.

Rain hampered recent activities on the Trail.  See the Trail Log for the soggy details.

▪  The 3rd Quarter Newsletter for 2008 is out in the original PDF version and an updated Web version.

▪ We've started working on exciting changes at KBS.  See the Trail Log and the Trail Tales page.

▪  We're hoping for a re-route of the Trail in Yankee Springs.  See the Trail Log and the Trail Tales page.

▪  We are saddened to note the passing of Chief Noonday Chapter member Fred Miller.  See the Trail Log item.

▪ Chief Noonday will be ably represented in the upcoming 2009 Calendar for the Hastings Public Library.  See the Trail Log.

▪ A new trail adopter is needed in the Middleville State Game Area section.  See the Trail Log.


▪  Our Trail Adopters had their annual meeting on May 10.  See the new "official photo" and the Trail Log item. 
▪  Check some new links (cleverly marked ♦  New ►) on our Useful Links page that would be worth pursuing. 
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