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The World Your Health Special Supplement Barre-Montpelier, VT
The World
Your Health Special Supplement
Barre-Montpelier, VT
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A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE WORLD<br />
Your Health<br />
© ADOBE STOCK<br />
Berlin Mall and Green Mountain Club Combine to Present Year<br />
Two of “Walk The Long Trail at Berlin Mall”<br />
From January 13 (MLK Weekend)-April<br />
22, 2<strong>01</strong>8 (Earth Day), the Berlin Mall<br />
welcomes walkers to experience an<br />
indoor version of the Long Trail, and<br />
help raise funds for the Green Mountain<br />
Club—official stewards of The Long Trail.<br />
Walk the Long Trail at Berlin Mall taps into Vermonters’<br />
love for the outdoors, and offers a fun, healthy, interactive and<br />
educational experience. By walking 544 laps in the mall’s<br />
heated, enclosed common area, participants can walk the<br />
equivalent of the Long Trail’s 272 miles. Photos, graphics,<br />
and other media provide the sense of being immersed in the<br />
Trail and its surroundings. Participants’ walking distances are<br />
recorded as they achieve milestones along the way, and the<br />
mall owners (Heidenberg Properties Group) are donating<br />
funds to our presenting partner, the Green Mountain Club,<br />
based on the number of miles people walk.<br />
All registered walkers receive a commemorative poster and<br />
colorful milestone stickers to track progress, plus special<br />
offers and giveaways. Walkers can register online at theberlinmall.com/walk,<br />
and onsite at the mall. In addition, special<br />
events featuring awards, prizes and light refreshments will<br />
mark the opening and closing of the “Walk.” Check out a<br />
video report of last year’s inaugural event here: https://m.<br />
sevendaysvt.com/vermont/walk-the-long-trail-at-berlin-mallsiv486/Content?oid=5173848<br />
The following businesses have stepped up to help underwrite<br />
this 4-month event: Walmart, Central Vermont Medical<br />
Center, Green Stripes Landscaping, Planet Fitness, Avonda<br />
Air, Casella, Passumpsic Savings Bank, Community National<br />
Bank, Land Strategies, Supercuts, and WDEV, and more<br />
sponsors are expected to support the “Walk.”<br />
The Long Trail (greenmountainclub.org/the-long-trail) is a<br />
free, rugged, primitive hiking trail along the high ridge of<br />
Vermont’s Green Mountains from Massachusetts to Quebec.<br />
Along its 272 miles, there are 5 peaks<br />
over 4,000 feet in elevation and 66<br />
rustic shelters for overnight<br />
camping.<br />
The Green Mountain<br />
Club (greenmountainclub.org)<br />
is celebrating<br />
over a century of heroic<br />
volunteers and<br />
great hikes on the<br />
Long Trail. The trail<br />
exists because the<br />
GMC and its 1,000+<br />
volunteers work hard<br />
to keep it going, and<br />
because members and<br />
donors provide support.<br />
The owners of the<br />
Berlin Mall have special<br />
plans for the mall—“Our<br />
vision is to create a vibrant town<br />
center where people of all ages live,<br />
work and play in a way that embraces community and celebrates<br />
life in Central Vermont,” said Michael Rushman,<br />
Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning. “Walk The<br />
Long Trail At Berlin Mall is a great example of how a town<br />
center concept brings people of all ages together, and is a<br />
glimpse of exciting things to come at Berlin Mall,” added<br />
Rushman.<br />
January <strong>10</strong>, 2<strong>01</strong>8 The WORLD page 13