Each session lasted ~1 h and 10 min and included a (1) 5-min warm-up, (2) 60-min CART training, and (3) 5-min cool down.
From Fort Garry, southbound cart trains followed the east bank of the Red River, crossing the Roseau River and the international border.
At times, some ox cart trains did not go all the way through, but were supplemented by river craft.
Each end-of-track town in its turn became the terminus for many of the cart trains.
Other cart trains crossed the Mississippi and travelled on to Saint Paul on a route shared with the Woods Trail.
These cart trains travelled about two miles (three km) an hour, and about twenty miles (thirty km) in a day.
From there, some traffic continued south along the river, but most cart trains went west along the Pembina River to St.
His successor and former partner Norman Kittson moved their company's cart trains from the West Plains Trail in the Minnesota River valley to the East Plains route.
In later years, most cart trains crossed to the east bank and proceeded northeast along the wooded river bottoms and uplands to Fort Snelling or Mendota, where the Minnesota River joined the Mississippi.
Shorter than the competing West Plain Trail, it became the route of the large cart trains originating from Pembina when well-known trader Henry Sibley retired from the fur trade in 1854.
Additionally, patient flow was optimized to reduce client waiting time, and the capacity of PHCs to initiate cART (whether on site, through ART mobile clinics, or through referral) was increased through cART training.
