At Upper Goose Pond Cabin this season (mid-May to mid-October), we recorded over 1800 visitors. 30 nights set new records for numbers of overnight visitors.
A rough tally of our campsite registers (14, total) finds over 10.000 entries this season. Obviously, all of the register entries aren't from overnight visitors ("just passin' thru"), nor do we attempt to track repeated entries by individual hikers, but it is a pretty impressive number of trail visits. Actual visits are likely higher, as not all hikers use the registers.
Imagine if 1% of those visitors actually volunteered for the Trail...
Cosmo