A plan afoot: Virginia Tech researchers studying impacts on Appalachian Trail - Roano

[WhiteBlaze]

Roanoke Times

A plan afoot: Virginia Tech researchers studying impacts on Appalachian Trail Roanoke Times Virginia Tech graduate student and researcher Johanna Arredondo, center, measures a mud hole in the middle of the Appalachian Trail in Jefferson National Forest north of Pearisburg in Giles County Sunday.As the number of hikers on the Appalachian Trail ...

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[-Rush-]

Awesome grant. "We're getting paid to hike." Best. Job. Ever.

[Venchka]

Awesome grant. "We're getting paid to hike." Best. Job. Ever.

"Biggest B.S. Ever."
3 years of research.
Countless hours of environmental impact study writing.
Interminable public hearings.
Meanwhile, folks still won't clean up after themselves.

Going hiking and not saying where.

Wayne

[RockDoc]

Contrived. McAfee knob is a big draw for locals, although the article implies that it's hundreds of pounds of hikers' trash.
Follow the money... permits and fees to follow, after "studies" of mud puddles and projections from computer models predict mayhem. Global warming hoax model for getting filthy rich, without doing anything about the real problem.

We're getting paid to hike! Oh please....

[buckeye49]

Contrived. McAfee knob is a big draw for locals, although the article implies that it's hundreds of pounds of hikers' trash.
Follow the money... permits and fees to follow, after "studies" of mud puddles and projections from computer models predict mayhem. Global warming hoax model for getting filthy rich, without doing anything about the real problem.

We're getting paid to hike! Oh please....

Well said. A mud puddle on a hiking trail, oh the humanity!