Hikers' mission: To blaze new Suffolk trail
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Tom Casey, Vice President of the Long Island Greenbelt Trail, leads a group on three-mile hike on unmarked paths that may become part of a new north-south trail in Yaphank. (Sept. 2, 2012)
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Shoes crunched on fallen tree bark and monarch butterflies floated above the trail in the woods.
But many of the 30 hikers who walked the rural path they called the Carmans Trail in Yaphank Sunday were there to do more than enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. They had a mission.
"The hope is to create a new trail," said Tom Casey, Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference hike leader,...
