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  1. 09-23-2005, 09:52 #1
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    Default Article in NY Times re: Thru hikers on AT.

    Saw this in today's Times On Line, thought I'd share.....

    "MOST of the time, the Katahdin Stream Campground in Baxter State Park in Maine is a simple cluster of tent sites and picnic tables. But for hundreds of northbound through hikers around this time of year, the little plot of land becomes a somewhat more meaningful place: the final staging area in their 2,175-mile journeys on the Appalachian Trail." For the rest.....http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/09/2...s/23trail.html
    The article mentions this forum and provides a link to it.
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  2. 09-23-2005, 10:48 #2
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    And Blue Jay got quoted, HAHA! It was pretty tame for him, they must of clipped it. Way to go Jay.
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    That was a good article. Thanks, stupe.
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    How dare that dude light up a cigarette at the summit. It's like farting in church.
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  5. 09-23-2005, 11:29 #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf
    It's like farting in church.
    I thought that was what the incense is for?

    Now don't get all "incensed" at that comment. It was just a joke y'all.

    Nice article, and a GREAT quote by Blue Jay. Lets see what the increase in Whiteblaze membership & traffic is as a result of this article.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MOWGLI16
    .... Lets see what the increase in Whiteblaze membership & traffic is as a result of this article.
    Well, since "bigger" is NOT "better," let's hope not too much!

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    It was a very good quote, Blue Jay's a softie inside.
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    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf
    How dare that dude light up a cigarette at the summit. It's like farting in church.
    Maybe he'll get his comeupance. "Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn".
    [Thoreau] He should maybe go back and leave a bottle of rum, the traditional gift.
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    the worn brown sign that reads "Katahdin: Northern Terminus of the Appalachian Trail...Once you touch that sign, the money world says 'you're mine.' My advice, don't touch it. Take your picture near it, but whatever you do don't touch it."
    I couldn't find such threads in Whiteblaze.net on bad luck to touch Big K sign. NY Times Writer Sarah Tuff also states
    Some hikers believe...
    is hardly a stats. It is like I among vast of those tourists who drank Fountain of Youth that we drew from years back in St. Augustine is declare poison and I am going to die. Ahh, Dorothy you sprinkle water on me. NO noooo!
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    The quote came from this thread. http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9666 Scroll down to #7.
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    Thanks so much for sharing that. Now I need to get my hands on a copy of the newspaper article!

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    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf
    How dare that dude light up a cigarette at the summit. It's like farting in church.
    Usually, past offenders and exsmokers protest the loudest !!!
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    I'm neither.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HikerHobo
    Usually, past offenders and exsmokers protest the loudest !!!
    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf
    I'm neither.
    What do you mean? You've offended lots of people!
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    Unhappy Oh please I mean...what bad luck

    Quote Originally Posted by Mountain Hippie
    The quote came from this thread. http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9666 Scroll down to #7.
    Not the quote. Oh my, here's 5 "W" and 1 "H." Pay attention, I say:
    W_h_e_r_e does that premotion to touch big brown sign comes from? Whose idea to say this deed is a bad omen? What evidence would be bad luck to perform our bodily contact by standing on Big K sign or touching or even kissing? When was first and current cases of bad lucks? And why is that? How many of you believe this tall tale?

    I could do Jackie Gleason's rebuttal to Ralph like in "Honeymooner," but hey that's not me. That sum to it all.
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    Sorry about that. I guess I should have stayed out of it. In the future I shall.
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    One time me and some cronies were gonna get to Baxter Peak early and take the sign down and hide it so the purists couldn't get their goofy Katahdin pics. That's the only reason they hike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deafsmart
    Not the quote. Oh my, here's 5 "W" and 1 "H." Pay attention, I say:
    W_h_e_r_e does that premotion to touch big brown sign comes from? Whose idea to say this deed is a bad omen? What evidence would be bad luck to perform our bodily contact by standing on Big K sign or touching or even kissing? When was first and current cases of bad lucks? And why is that? How many of you believe this tall tale?
    Read the quote again S_l_o_W_l_y. There is some real truth in what Blue Jay says, regardless of his point about touching the sign. Anyway, traditions have to start sometime. Why not now?

    In my office I do have the poster entitled End of the Journey on my wall. I think he's touching the sign.
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    I'm gonna re-start the fording of the Kennebec tradition.
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    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf
    I'm gonna re-start the fording of the Kennebec tradition.
    The Kennebec's only a couple of feet deep early in the morning. Ford the Hudson. Not THAT would be a worthy tradition.
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