[at-l] Re: ATN article, 1936 Scout Hike

[PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com (PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com)]

His accounting expressely stated that he remembered the older boys leading
and having a tough go of constantly breaking trail, while he, as the
youngest, never had to break trail and he was able to walk on the compacted
snow of their footprints.

Sounded like they were definately not just 'seeing' snow, but breaking trail
and slogging thru stuff deep enough that he was glad to be at the end of the
line..

paula

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Bodling [mailto:KAB@concordia-ny.edu]

Of course, there's snow and then there's snow.

I didn't read the article to clearly say that they were slogging 
through thigh deep drifts all the way through Maine.  I read it to say 
that there was snow within sight pretty much most of the time. But 
maybe not literally ALL the time. Maybe not on hillsides facing 
south, for example (but even there maybe where it had been 
packed down by previous walkers).  Even this snow-poor winter 
here in New York, I did some day hiking on the AT where the only 
visible (packed) snow was actually on the Trail.  

Now, granted back in the 1930s in Maine on the Trail (not on road 
walk portions) there would have been fewer (or NO?) people to have 
packed down the snow.  But I'm just positing possibilities here.

Kurt
Concordia