The Clamor for Glamour: The Appalachian Trail - Clapway [Archive]

WhiteBlaze

03-18-2015, 12:00

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show me the monkey

03-18-2015, 14:15

"A through-hike (a hike of the full-length variety) or even a shorter-hike is both fulfilling and rife with dangers."
As endearingly silly as that statement sounds when you consider the statistics, the selfish part of me says "right-on!" to anything that could potentially reduce numbers of hikers.

Donde

03-18-2015, 16:00

"A through-hike (a hike of the full-length variety) or even a shorter-hike is both fulfilling and rife with dangers."
As endearingly silly as that statement sounds when you consider the statistics, the selfish part of me says "right-on!" to anything that could potentially reduce numbers of hikers.

Yeah **** everybody else its your trail buddy.
I guess you were out sick that week of kindergarten.

Traveler

03-19-2015, 07:58

Though potentially annoying, the more people who come to the trail increases the number of people who will grow into care taking the trail through a variety of different voluntary efforts. We need new volunteers annually as experienced, and long term volunteers start to winnow down. If one wants to be concerned about the AT, look at volunteer attrition and get involved somehow.

show me the monkey

03-19-2015, 15:48

Yeah **** everybody else its your trail buddy.
I guess you were out sick that week of kindergarten.
Awesome post. I guess the the "tongue-in-cheek" part of that kindergarten lesson was taught the day you were out.

show me the monkey

03-19-2015, 15:54

Though potentially annoying, the more people who come to the trail increases the number of people who will grow into care taking the trail through a variety of different voluntary efforts. We need new volunteers annually as experienced, and long term volunteers start to winnow down. If one wants to be concerned about the AT, look at volunteer attrition and get involved somehow.

Well I would agree... having been a maintainer since 1988, that's before Donde was even in Kindergarten.