Should trail maintenance be discontinued?
To lower the number of AT starters and lessen the % of AT finishers!
(_|_) please stop
Yes, you would have less hikers but then agian the trail was made for people to hike so...no
The trial is hard enough for many people to finish.
Betic,
Is your avatar a hiker, astronaut, or some comic book character?
All three?Originally Posted by lobster
A lobster from California? Disgusting.
Bad idea. Trail maintenance does things like lessen the impact of erosion and impact of hikers on surrounding areas. As well as allowing for rerouting around damaged areas so they can recover. More people would get injured as well...
Moosecockery of the first order.
You're always dependable, Lobster, I'm gonna miss ya.
Moosecock is pretty low, but then lobsters hang on the ocean floor, which is even lower, perhaps we need to look for a more appropriate name of a criter hanging at the bottom of one of the deep trenches and rename our friend.
Lobster, Discontinue trail maintenance? You are just trying to start a riot, right?
Yo lobster? You been eatin that green s**t near the lobsters head?
There were some sections I remember where I think maintance had been discontinued, North Carolina, a stretch in Virginia,a piece near Duncanon, and a few miles near Monson come to mind but it depends on the maintainer and how dependable he or she is. There was a section near Burke's Gardan that was maintained by a youth group from a local Baptist Church. There were many logs scross the trail and brush was closing in. However they tried. Every Sunday after Church the entire group would go to the trail and pray for the logs to rot and the brush to part.
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Careful, Moxie. Remember you are now a politician!
Maintainance??
You mean the trail is not a naturally occuring path... maybe made by the Indians or maybe the ancient herds of roaming buffalo?? "gulp" You mean people really go out there and WORK to make it what it is??
Well, you learn something new everyday!!
I'm new to this site... I didnt even read any responses left to this... And I dont care who I piss off but you leave some of the dumbest posts Ive ever seen. Why do you bother writing this useless crap?
crew chiefs can fix anything with pro seal and 100mph tape...
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This idea is lower than whale poop ! I cant believe I even read it! No maintenance on the trail, good greif!!
Is this supposed to be an ass mooning someone? Just curious.
as a matter of fact I wish everone would stop maintaining everything and the world would go wild...such a bad thing, I think not. Just imagine what a place this would be.
That's true. If Troll stopped maintaining this web site, the site would fail and we wouldn't have to listen to this garbage.
For one thing, thru-hikers are a very small minority of people who use the AT. Most people who use the AT are short term hikers.
Why not answer your own question by going out and hiking an old section of the AT that has been relocated and abandoned.
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