View Full Version : Alabama looks for ways to promote Pinhoti Trail - San Jose Mercury News
WhiteBlaze
06-16-2008, 17:10
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_9603637&cid=0&ei=rdZWSM7xPJKi9wS5oNXOCg&usg=AFQjCNEZGj3mwcLy7h3YGoQnSeM3eP5Asw">Alabama looks for ways to promote Pinhoti <b>Trail</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>San Jose Mercury News, USA -</font> <nobr>16 minutes ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>Volunteers in Alabama and Georgia have worked for more than two decades to pound out their own path that could eventually extend the <b>Appalachian Trail</b> to <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
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The article is old news
HOWEVER!!! The photos are of our very own Hammock Hanger and Frosty! Taken by yours truly!
The article is old news
HOWEVER!!! The photos are of our very own Hammock Hanger and Frosty! Taken by yours truly!Good thing I bought myself a gym membership for my birthday. Woof!
Odd Thomas
06-17-2008, 03:33
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Alabama looks for ways to promote Pinhoti Trail (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_9603637&cid=1222616104&ei=C-BWSPLQHJfM8ATn47GJDg&usg=AFQjCNHJSUKrpNUyYr2asWRiuZKF7aFjJA)
San Jose Mercury News, USA - <nobr>56 minutes ago</nobr>
Volunteers in Alabama and Georgia have worked for more than two decades to pound out their own path that could eventually extend the Appalachian Trail to ...
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What's to be gained by promoting a trail?
RITBlake
06-17-2008, 10:32
Saw an ad placed by The Alabama Tourism Board for the Pinhoti Trail in the latest Backpacker.
minnesotasmith
06-17-2008, 16:11
What's to be gained by promoting a trail?
--Money hikers spend during their hike
--Yuppies coming to think that if AL has a major trail like the AT running through it, it must be a cool place with lots of outdoor recreation opportunities, so worth living in and contributing their tax dollar to the local/county/state governments
--Politicians able to claim they brought something major to the state (think of how they go on when a pro-sports team relocates to their state), especially in those areas near enough to the Trail that local businessmen might think it'd help their businesses
--Fame, however minor
--Maybe, just maybe, some of them like the outdoors
If you saw the contest on the opposite side of that full page ad, you saw me there too!!!
If you saw the contest on the opposite side of that full page ad, you saw me there too!!!Sure, I'll bet you sent them a NICE looking picture of YOU.
No... they took it of my posterior... Im sure there was a wide angle lens on that camera!