Re[3]: [at-l] ATC ad policy

[kahley7@ptd.net (kahley)]

At 09:27 AM 8/9/01 -0400, Bob Cummings wrote:


>  says usually wise Kahley.

I left this line unsnipped cause I like to see that in print.....<VVVBG>


>There are country roads paralleling most of the AT. I suggest those who 
>want a civilized walk
>utilize them.

Sorry...but in my book, hiking from privy to privy is a civilized walk.  I 
recognize the need
for privies to protect the land because soooooo many people are using 
it.  But the fact
that sooooo many people are using it also makes it a minor adventure or in 
your terms
a civilized walk.  One of the hikers we supported this year left the AT 
because he was
seeking adventure and wasn't finding it there.  He said "the AT was great 
and all, especially
the people, but it was just too linear for me".  Further query brought out 
that he felt it
was impossible to have an adventure in a place that was so organized and 
"civilized"  He
left the Trail and tried to have his adventure walking trails and back 
roads, back to his home.
He didn't find adventure there either and my last contact with him was his 
request for info
on the PCT.

>People go for hikes in the woods to get a respite from commercialism. 
>Common sense, therefore says
>we ought to keep commercials out of the woods, hills and mountains.

Hmmm....is there no room for you to consider the difference between 
commercials and information?
Can't there be some way to provide info without neon lights?

>This mantra: "Who says what a
>thru hike ought to be?" gets tiring at
>times? It's become a way to prevent rational discussion of what the trail 
>is or ought to be.

If you find the question tiring,  point me to the answer and maybe I will 
stop asking. Until I read that
a law has been passed or regulation approved that states what a thru must 
be, the question
is up for debate.  Of course even if such a law is passed, the question is 
up for debate because
one of those Constitutional Amendments thingees say so.

The idea that asking a question is a way of _preventing_debate is bizarre....


>As a great American preacher once said, "Nothing in the world is more 
>dangerous than sincere ignorance
>and conscientious stupidity."

I didn't snip this cause I am usually wise enough not to take insults, 
intended to inflame me, to heart.


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