View Full Version : Former locals conquer Appalachian Trail - Meadville Tribune
WhiteBlaze
10-01-2008, 07:50
<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.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_274223120.html&cid=0&ei=7mPjSJr7J43swgGyr9j-Bg&usg=AFQjCNH1UFxElT4PrKiINKNeg8YglKgGQg">Former locals conquer <b>Appalachian Trail</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Meadville Tribune, PA -</font> <nobr>36 minutes ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>According to the <b>Appalachian Trail</b> Conservancy Web site, 70 to 90 percent of the approximately 1150 hikers who set out each year fail to complete it. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
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Lone Wolf
10-01-2008, 08:12
thse articles are funny :D
My local paper (Times Herald Record) wanted to do an article after I completed my hike in 2000. A friend had called them, and a reporter called me. The reporter didn't understand when I said, "sorry, it's a personal experience, and I don't want to have it in the paper." He tried to convince me, but I said, "sorry."
Nothing wrong with others doing it. That's just the way I handled it.
Some local papers seem pretty desperate for some form of connection to events or the outside world generally. A friend of ours who grew up in the Milwaukee suburbs (moved away maybe 30 years ago) has a daughter who attends Virginia Tech. On the day of the shootings a couple of years ago, somehow the local daily Waukesha Freeman found our friend and interviewed her (not even the daughter...) and that interview was the front page story above the fold the next day. Our friend was absolutely mystified - her daughter wasn't even anywhere near the unfortunate events.
I don't mind these kinds of articles though. It's rather refreshing to see news about somebody actually doing something positive.
It's also instructive to see a garbling of something one knows about, and to realize that reporters can't be expert at everything and can't always get the facts perfectly straight within the deadline cycle.
Jack Tarlin
10-01-2008, 12:28
I don't have a problem with these articles, tho I wish they'd refrain from using terms like "conquer" when talking about the Trail.
It sorta puts the Trail in an adversarial position, like it was something or someone to be beaten up, and for most hikers, this isn't the case.
Maybe I'm just speaking only for myself, but I never thought the Trail was something to be conquered or to triumph over. The Trail is my friend and not my enemy.