[at-l] Slackpacking is NOT typically American.

[lparker@cacaphony.net (L. Parker)]

That is an interesting variation I hadn't thought of before. Kind of like
the way Chuck did the ECT a few years ago with his wife providing "support
crew", only the base camp was actually mobile.

Lee I Joe

>
> There is another type of slackpacking that can be done on the
> AT.  You stay
> in just one place for days on end and arrange for shuttles
> that will help
> you piece together a number of individual stretches of the AT
> over the
> duration of your stay. After each day's stretch, you return
> to your same
> bed.  The one place in my neck of the woods that provides
> such a base camp
> is Hikers Paradise in Gorham, NH. I understand that there are
> other places
> that this can be done also.  In the case of Hikers Paradise,
> the proprieter
> has very reasonable shuttle fees and flexible which one can
> probably expect
> to share among a group of people and flexible schedules.
>