Against the odds, 70-year-old to hike ‘The Last 100’ miles of Superior Hiking Trail

Against the odds, 70-year-old to hike ‘The Last 100’ miles of Superior Hiking Trail

WRENSHALL — Paul Hlina was lucky to be alive after being involved in a head-on vehicle collision in 1979. Hlina was not wearing a seat belt, yet only broke a single bone — his L3 vertebra. At 22 years old, doctors at Craig Hospital in Inglewood, Colorado, were uncertain if he would walk again. But after five surgeries and nine months of recovery, Hlina got back on his feet. Paul Hlina hikes along the Superior Hiking Trail on Sept. 11. Wyatt Buc…