Five High School Youths Brave Oregon Coast During 105 Mile Hike

Hike Down Coast Proves Hilarious
By Virginia Muhle

A T-R Feature
Dateline July 1946

Malcolm March, Jim Hart, Dick Bennette, Joe Jensen and Dick Muhle made historic 105 mile trek down Oregon Coast in 1946.It was June 9—day for the realization of several weeks of planning when five McMinnville high school boys set off on the first lap of a proposed 105-mile hike down the Oregon coast. The five, Malcolm March, Jim Hart, Dick Bennette, Joe Jensen and Dick Muhle, planned stops all along the stretch of sand, trees, rain and ocean between Ocean Lake and Reedsport and they intended to make the trek within 10 days.

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