View Full Version : Predictions for the AT 2025
fiddlehead
05-11-2009, 20:27
Let's see, predictions for 2025 anyone?
1/ Trail will be 2240 miles long (added switchbacks)
2/ Bridge across the Kennebec
3/ Hidden cameras in every shelter and road crossing (what do they call it? CCTV?)
4/ Internet access at every point along the trail with blinking lights on your PDA (or whatever they choose to call computers by then) for all your friend's locations live.
5/ Dehydrated beer will be the craze that year.
6/ Fees for all camping (per night) Probably a standard $27.00 a night or something like that.
7/ Sleeping bags will have thermostats to dial in your comfort level
8/ Baltimore Jack will be attempting the first wheelchair hike of the trail
9/ Lone Wolf will be his support crew complete with battery change at every road crossing
10/ Wolves will be what everyone is afraid of as the bears and moose will be mild in comparison.
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Sustainable hiking will be all the rage amongst hikers, outfitters, service providers, and trail club.
Those that fake it best will get rich and laid often. AT will be straightened out and paved.
JAK will still be posting without ever having stepped on the AT.
Sustainable hiking will be all the rage amongst hikers, outfitters, service providers, and trail club.
Those that fake it best will get rich and laid often. AT will be straightened out and paved.
JAK will still be posting without ever having stepped on the AT.
Shelters will be every 3 miles on a paved wheelchair access trail with a Starbucks every other shelter. The shelters will all require ATC membership which will have risen to $300 a year, and tenting will no longer be allowed. Due to air pollution, photos of what the vista used to be will be posted at the old overlooks for the "enjoyment" of the "hikers".
Footslogger
05-11-2009, 21:54
Footslogger's heart damage will heal and he will re-hike the AT and set the record as the oldest person to hike the AT twice.
'Slogger
Blissful
05-11-2009, 22:39
Footslogger's heart damage will heal and he will re-hike the AT and set the record as the oldest person to hike the AT twice.
'Slogger
Now I like this...
Blissful
05-11-2009, 22:40
I hope to be out hiking the trail with my grandkids. :)
Railroad King
05-12-2009, 06:30
Let's see, predictions for 2025 anyone?
9/ Lone Wolf will be his support crew complete with battery change at every road crossing
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Did anyone else read "diaper change" instead of "battery change"?
Jester2000
05-12-2009, 10:36
Lone Wolf will still think shelters suck.
max patch
05-12-2009, 10:49
Let's see, predictions for 2025 anyone?
1/ Trail will be 2240 miles long (added switchbacks)
2/ Bridge across the Kennebec
3/ Hidden cameras in every shelter and road crossing (what do they call it? CCTV?)
4/ Internet access at every point along the trail with blinking lights on your PDA (or whatever they choose to call computers by then) for all your friend's locations live.
5/ Dehydrated beer will be the craze that year.
6/ Fees for all camping (per night) Probably a standard $27.00 a night or something like that.
7/ Sleeping bags will have thermostats to dial in your comfort level
8/ Baltimore Jack will be attempting the first wheelchair hike of the trail
9/ Lone Wolf will be his support crew complete with battery change at every road crossing
10/ Wolves will be what everyone is afraid of as the bears and moose will be mild in comparison.
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None of the above.
i Hope To Be Out Hiking The Trail With My Grandkids. :)
Me Too!!!!!!
If I could pick only one, just one, which one I would choose?
1. The AT will be improved, better conserved for natural habitat and sustainable hiking.
2. I will have hiked some sections of the trail, perhaps with my wife and daughter.
3. I will have learned to be a better person by then.
Perhaps all three are possible, and not all that crazy really.
Think global act local maybe. :-?
The AT will be an urban trail, winding among the suburbs and townhomes that used to be national forests.
fiddlehead
05-12-2009, 12:36
None of the above.
You're so creative.
leeki pole
05-12-2009, 12:41
Much like the huts in The Whites, every shelter will serve meals, have a staff and a hike-through window for those really wanting to rough it. Fees will be about $175 a night for a shelter bunk. Satellite phone will be available as well as television. Wi-fi internet access will be available albeit for a small fee. An ATV will be located at the shelter to rescue those who may have overstepped their bounds and need to relax and refresh at the nearest town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
Monkeyboy
05-12-2009, 13:29
They already have hidden cameras in the shelters.......
bigmac_in
05-12-2009, 13:39
They already have hidden cameras in the shelters.......
Well, that means they don't have my picture. :D
Monkeyboy
05-12-2009, 13:40
http://ontargetwebdesign.net/catalog/images/tree_mouse2sm.jpg
They look like this
Chaco Taco
05-12-2009, 13:45
Door bells in all shelters for late arrivals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dBuHVfSCA
things wil be exactly like they are now but people will be less patient
flemdawg1
05-12-2009, 15:04
Flemdawg1 will finally be able to attempt a thru-hike as his youngest daughter finally moves off to college. sigh.
Phoenix7
05-12-2009, 15:16
Wells will have to be dug at intervals along the trail, as many water sources will have dried up due to global warming.
We will argue about the need to carry Solar Powered Plasma Pistols.
... people will joke that if you try and use them on bears the sun will shine where it shouldn't.
Bill Bryson will actually have thru-hiked.
I'm joining the 2025 club!
Chaco Taco
05-12-2009, 16:53
Bill Bryson will actually have thru-hiked.
No friggin way. He will be eatin by bears in the Shenney's
I'll be 51 yrs old.
If I am like my good friend who is that age, I'll be pulling down 20+ mile days and having a blast. :)
Bilge Rat
05-12-2009, 21:49
Door bells in all shelters for late arrivals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dBuHVfSCA
A well spent 12 bucks! The "bell" was supposed to go in the privy, but the range wasn't far enough...........:D
Chaco Taco
05-12-2009, 23:32
A well spent 12 bucks! The "bell" was supposed to go in the privy, but the range wasn't far enough...........:D
Your little gadgets were def a highlight of the hike. Thanks dude!
Chaco Taco
05-12-2009, 23:32
Your little gadgets were def a highlight of the hike. Thanks dude!
Esp the pregnancy tests:D
According to global warming trends there will be beach access all along the trail whoo hoo
Ridge Rat
05-13-2009, 12:04
A well spent 12 bucks! The "bell" was supposed to go in the privy, but the range wasn't far enough...........:D
I had more people yelling at me because of your pranks... I would introduce myself as ridge rat and they would flip out saying I left a water spigot (sp?) on a log and it didnt work... But I got a good laugh out of it as I handed out candy bars to the thru hikers
According to global warming trends there will be beach access all along the trail whoo hoo
:sun The Appalocean trail!
Phoenix7
05-13-2009, 15:10
Solar-powered bug zappers every 30 ft...
ChinMusic
05-13-2009, 15:34
Exoskeleton technology will allow for effort-free, 100-mile days. Wild Cowboy's 2010 record of 30 days will finally be broken.
cowboy nichols
05-13-2009, 15:44
Thats only 15 yrs away---maybe I'll be on another thru, that is if my kids quit detouring me. I think there will be less people hiking.
Nicksaari
05-13-2009, 19:45
levitating packs. carry anything maneuverable at any weight.
this is a fruitless post, as before 25 years from now, there will be this ugly world war, with all the religious factions fighting, invading, occupying. nuclear weapons will be used, and mankind and all plant life will be scratched from the earth.
and so goes for the trail.
"if god is truly just, then i pray for the fate of my country"
-Benjamin Franklin
sorry, but i have this feeling.