[at-l] Re: Loss of the AT thru-hiking "mystique"

[freighttrain7@home.com (Abe)]

Heh ....Lets not stereotype now !    We all know how wrong that is

Have a Happy NewYear!
 Freighttrain


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malcolm Fuller" <mfuller@somtel.com>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: [at-l] Re: Loss of the AT thru-hiking "mystique"

> That's *their* problem.
> 
> You could argue instead that there are certain aspects
> of the current thruhiking scene that impinge on everyone's 
> hiking experience and I wouldn't necessarily disagree that 
> such things are a problem. However, I dare say that the
> traveling party crowd has never held, nor are interested
> in, any sort of trail mystique as you describe it; they're
> in it for other reasons. It's not as though one can spend
> a summer following the Grateful Dead anymore.
> 
> > 2.  How about hiking "experience" instead of hiking "scene"?
> 
> While everyone acquires experience, for the most part 
> participation in "the scene" (or "the community" for
> that matter) is strictly optional. Were the Fulminatrix
> and I to ever hike through, for example, we'd be avoiding
> the latter to the point of never staying in an occupied
> shelter. I swore off sharing unhygienic quarters with smelly
> persons of questionable character upon graduating college.
> 
> > 3.  By the way, you still don't know who I am?
> 
> I know. It's been a few years, eh? I was gonna drop you a
> short line the other day, but was too distracted by Pegus. 
> 
> -MF
> 
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