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WhiteBlaze
07-13-2008, 05:40
<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.suntimes.com/lifestyles/travel/northamerica/1052967,TRA-News-pinhoti13.article&cid=0&ei=es15SPmjG5jK8ATO-9GNBg&usg=AFQjCNGPabc6jjncHY-TCIqiVLs4SYiMGA">Alabama looks for ways to promote Pinhoti <b>Trail</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Chicago Sun-Times,&nbsp;United States&nbsp;-</font> <nobr>36 minutes ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>Until, that is, it&#39;s compared with the legendary route where it winds up: The mighty <b>Appalachian Trail</b>. The 2175-mile path winds through mountains, <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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Cuffs
07-13-2008, 11:52
Duplicate article, just a different newspaper... please delete or merge.
MOWGLI
07-13-2008, 11:59
Interesting to see how wide spread this article has been picked up. Chi-Town. Not too shabby.
minnesotasmith
07-13-2008, 12:20
About how uphill the struggle for officially adding the Pinhoti to the AT would be, especially since the GA clubs appear disinterested in doing their part of what would need to be done.
Hammock Hanger
07-13-2008, 12:43
Cuffs were you ever able to find a copy of us on the Pinhoti that appeared in the Johnson City Press, 6/22/08. I searched online and could not find it. I still have not rec'd a copy from my friend in Colorado who came acrossed it. Again, your face my butt!!! Really. :)
Cuffs
07-13-2008, 12:45
No, I have not seen the Johnson City article...
Must be the photos I submitted to the AP/NewYork... You crossing the 'wonky bridge,' me climbing a hill and one of Frosty coming down a hill...? Thats all I can think of.
Hammock Hanger
07-13-2008, 12:49
Must be the photos I submitted to the AP/NewYork... You crossing the 'wonky bridge,' me climbing a hill and one of Frosty coming down a hill...? Thats all I can think of.


I'm sure my butt is cuter then your sweaty face.... :D It would hae been nice if they had let you know the article went out.

We must be nuts, sitting in front of our computers instead of out in the woods... Oh I forgot we live in the south and it is swealtering, hot and humid out!!!
minnesotasmith
07-13-2008, 12:53
We must be nuts, sitting in front of our computers instead of out in the woods... Oh I forgot we live in the south and it is swealtering, hot and humid out!!!

I'm being PAID to be on a woody mountain at over 8000' in the Colorado Rockies. It's cool enough at night to need a thin blanket. I get to hike here on my days off... :)
Cuffs
07-13-2008, 13:09
Thats nice... {{nods and smiles}}
MOWGLI
07-13-2008, 14:05
Oh I forgot we live in the south and it is swealtering, hot and humid out!!!

I was saying that to my wife yesterday. It was a nice day, excepting the 92 degrees and 90% humidity.
Hammock Hanger
07-13-2008, 17:54
I'm being PAID to be on a woody mountain at over 8000' in the Colorado Rockies. It's cool enough at night to need a thin blanket. I get to hike here on my days off... :)


Sounds like a sweet assignment!! Enjoy.
Odd Thomas
07-13-2008, 18:13
I'm being PAID to be on a woody mountain at over 8000' in the Colorado Rockies. It's cool enough at night to need a thin blanket. I get to hike here on my days off... :)

Uh oh, I hope you're not there as part of an evil plot to harvest the mountains for energy. :eek:;)
minnesotasmith
07-13-2008, 18:40
Uh oh, I hope you're not there as part of an evil plot to harvest the mountains for energy. :eek:;)

I'm here to do my patriotic part to help RESIST the evil plot by the *********** to deny needed petroleum to an energy-hungry America (and getting paid in the process). A win-win if you ask me...

Besides, I promise that the mountains I work on 1) will be essentially the same height (within microns) when I'm through here, and 2) that they are indistinct, no-name ones in the middle of nowhere that no one but cattlemen and hunters were going on before the oil industry got here in any event.
minnesotasmith
07-13-2008, 19:25
I made my standardized detailed comment there about the obstacles in the way of getting the Pinhoti officially accepted as part of the AT. Not only did my comment get deleted, they CLOSED the article to comments.

Looks like all they want on the subject of the Pinhoti is mindless rah-rah B.S., not a substantive discussion.
minnesotasmith
07-14-2008, 20:50
I made my standardized detailed comment there about the obstacles in the way of getting the Pinhoti officially accepted as part of the AT. Not only did my comment get deleted, they CLOSED the article to comments.

Looks like all they want on the subject of the Pinhoti is mindless rah-rah B.S., not a substantive discussion.

They put the comments section active again, and my post there is back. Wonder what's going on at the Chicago Sun-Times?