Paradise to Hell

Clayton Klein, an 87 year-old Michigan man is walking from Paradise to Hell for the second time in a year. The Conway Township resident has gotten quite a bit of local notoriety thanks to the creative name for his hike.

Klein is not walking from the Biblical paradise to hell, but from the town of Paradise in Michigan's upper peninsula to the hamlet of Hell in the far southeast corner of the state. Truth be told, he's actually walking across the State of Michigan from north to south, starting at Lake Superior north of Paradise and continuing south to the Ohio boarder south of Hell.

Klein will do the walk in about 22 days, stopping once along the way to go home to mow his lawn.

For this second walk, he timed his trip to coincide with the annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge walk so that he doesn't have to "cheat" by riding over the Straights in a car.

The Detroit News featured Klein's walk in last Friday's paper, and is also the source of the link to the photo of Klein.