[at-l] cell phones

[orangebug74@yahoo.com (Orange Bug)]

Bingo. I also find it a bit presumptuous to blame to occasional cell
phone packing hiker with destroying the wilderness and view by creating
a market for more cell towers. While $300 per acre might be
economically viable for cell towers in Maine, the cost of construction
and annual royalties to landowners are a bit greater than that - if you
happen to have land that attracts a cell tower.

Blaming hikers with cell towers for destroying "wildness" is a bit
extreme. There is much "wildness" in NJ & NY that a cell tower will
never affect. I suspect this is a bit of "1984" reaction. Cell phone
bad! Zip Stove good! Geeze, these are battery powered tools that can be
used and misused. If a distant cell tower or occasional cell phone does
ruin a walk in the woods, I'd suggest that the walker needs to examine
some priorities.

However, in the tone of supporting pagan wildness, I suggest that one
more hiker goes out to sacrifice their cell phone on the altar of the
Pure AT. Only then will the Anti-Cell Phone Gods be appeased.

Bill...

--- DTimm65344@aol.com wrote:
> BTW - I had originally thought, and have previously posted, that the
> cell tower increase in GA was likely a result of 9/11 as it followed
> closely on the heels of that.  I now believe that the proliferation
is
> completely hiking unrelated and has to do with the fact that
> everybody from Atlanta now has a vacation home on the hills above
> Hiawasee, which messes up the view far more than the cell towers, I
> think.  Reason I now think that is that the reception 
> in NC is no better than it was two years ago.
> 

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