[at-l] Sense of Wilderness and Town Stops

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 3/20/2002 12:35:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
spiriteagle99@hotmail.com writes:


> However, RnR's contention that the written intention of the Trail's creators 
> 
> was that the AT be a place where technology should be excluded is pure 
> bullhockey.  That's RnR's belief (or rather what he'd like to believe) - 
> but 
> there's no basis in fact for it. If you'd like to come up with specific 
> references for that, I'll be happy to read them, RnR - otherwise your'e 
> blowin' smoke again.
> 

 
      *** Since coming to the list I've been astounded what a rapport and 
gentile cooperation a warm, friendly campfire membership can impart on any AT 
soul. I have to preface my reply to Jim with a reminder that he is the same 
poster who said "anyone who knows what they are talking about *knows* that 
Wingfoot had nothing to do with Putnam Mine." He chose not to respond to the 
Putnam Mine letter by J. Leutze calling it a "waste of bandwidth"...

       It is very clear to me from MacKaye's writings that he envisioned a 
place where nature was preserved in order to protect a sense of wilderness. I 
thank you for the opportunity to present this topic (as I did the Putnam 
proof) and will do so when I obtain the proper materials. 

    Like many others in here, Jim strikes me as peculiar in the fact that he 
backs what I am saying in his opening paragraphs, admitting that he also had 
the same views and doesn't use a cell phone himself, yet then goes on to 
attack the very premise he uses in his own logic regarding his backcountry 
gear. Like I said a few days back, "you have to ask yourself if your 
behavior, view, or input is one that assists the AT's wilderness goal or 
defeats it? I feel Jim's position here resembles the latter...



     Anybody who uses town stops to justify cell phones uses an invalid 
analogy. I myself stopped very infrequently both to save money and stay on 
the Trail longer. When I hear of people spending a $100 dollars for hotel 
night on the Trail I cringe to think how many miles that could have bought 
for a poorer hiker with a good Trail-attitude and a Zip Stove...   :)
    
      
    BTW: Jim I read on the front page of the NY Times today a report on the 
sudden collapse of a Rhode Island-sized chunk of Antarctic ice shelf. The 
world's glaciers have receded by 1/3 in the last 100 years with most of it 
occurring in the last 20. The world's atmospheric carbon dioxide level has 
increased by 25% during the same period. 
    I also read in the Times today how Bush is eliminating endangered species 
protections for the sake of developers in the US. I wonder if a majority of 
US democratic citizens support this?


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