[at-l] New Baxter rules

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

And did Jim count all the people who go to do the end with their friends and
relatives?  They have to stay somewhere.  anklebear

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To: <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>
Cc: <AT-L@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] New Baxter rules


> In a message dated 11/8/01 11:21:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> spiriteagle99@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> > as I recall there are now over 400
> > thruhikers who finish each year.  There are a few (very few) who finish
in
> > August - and a few more that finish after Oct 1, so for them the 12 per
> > night limit isn't usually a problem.   For the rest, even if you spread
the
> > numbers evenly over the entire month of Sept, that means that 12 per
night
> > equals 360 thruhikers allowed into the Park.  What are they gonna do
with
> > the extra 40 thruhikers?
> >
>
>       ***   Good letter Jim.
>
>                      Did you consider the extra load above and beyond this
of
> probably hundreds who are sectioners, short-term, or weekend hikers
grouping
> themselves in with the through-hikers for space? They would simply add to
the
> load by calling themselves AT hikers. This could push space availability
to
> the breaking point.
>
>     Maybe the Appalachian Trail need not be shortened, but lengthened to
pull
> AT hikers out and around the congestion points. If a new Trail hooked out
to
> the west and north and approached Katahdin from a remote side. Perhaps the
> problem would be removed from the situation in question?
>
>    Is this too radical, or is there an impossibility involved?
>
>
>
>
>
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