[at-l] WINGFOOT...

[Bob C." <ellen@clinic.net (Bob C.)]

"...  after  a  year  in which the AT-L barely whispered his name, he (Wingfoot)
writes an editorial slamming our good name." says Pittsburgh.

I  think  most of us are aware of Wingfoot's failures. A few of us recognize his
counter-balancing successes.

Wingfoot  has devoted the latter years of his life on behalf of what he believes
is  the good of the trail -- first as a volunteer; later as a fulltime advocate.
The trail is his life and his livelihood. Judging from outside appearances it is
a very meager livelihood.

Obviously  his  dreams  for  a  vast  new organization devoted to protecting and
improving  the  wildness  of  the  trail,  have  failed.  He struggles by on the
remnants of a grand idea.

I'm  more  saddened than angry at Wingfoot. I hate to see a grand, important and
innovative  idea  fail  --  even  when  the author of the idea must share in the
failure.

Weary