[at-l] AT Maps & Guides

[bullard@northnet.org (Jim Bullard)]

You missed mentioning the newest one, "Appalachian Trail on my Mind" a
collection of AT photos by Bart Smith and others.  My copy arrived
today.  :)   I ordered "The New  Exploration,  A  Philosophy  of  Regional
Planning" a couple of weeks ago from another source but don't have it yet.

At 10:43 AM 11/19/2002 -0500, Bob C. wrote:
>The  mail  this  week  brought  the  "Ultimate  Appalachian  Trail Store"
>annual
>November catalog.
>
>Items of special interest:
>
>A  sale on trail guides and maps for 2003 thru hikers (and anyone who just
>wants
>to  dream.)  All  11  guide  books and maps, plus the 2003 data book are
>selling
>through  Dec.  24  for $171.75. Starting at midnight that day the price
>jumps to
>$280.50 for non members and $224.30 for members.
>
>--A bargain price for just the maps. ($156.10 for members, but for just an
>extra
>$15 you might as well go for the Guide Book/map package.)
>
>--Virtually every book about the trail that is still in print.
>
>--And  for  those  who  really  want  to understand Benton MacKaye's
>thinking as
>opposed  to  arguing about it, a reprint of MacKaye's "landmark 1928
>work," "The
>New  Exploration,  A  Philosophy  of  Regional Planning" New Yorker
>magazine has
>called  the essay "a long lost classic." The price? $8.95 for non members,
>$7.60
>for members. No. I haven't read the essay, but I will one of these days.
>
>Some  (maybe  most)  thru hikers consider the guidebooks unnecessary. But
>I find
>them  essential  for  planning and for identifying special attractions
>along the
>trail.  Plus  there sale provides badly needed income to the ATC and
>maintaining
>clubs.
>
>BTW  to take advantage of the special guide book price, you need to be a
>member.
>It's  easy.  Just  open www.appalachiantrail.org and click on join. Dues
>are $30
>for  most.  Those  over 65 and younger than 18 get a $5 discount. Aside
>from the
>discounts,  dues  are  an  important, and needed, fund source for ATC.
>They also
>make  you  eligible  for discounts at three of the trail's best hostels,
>the ATC
>hostel  just north of Harpers Ferry, The Bears Den, in Northern Virginia
>and the
>Mansion  at  Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania, or at least
>they did
>when I went through in 1993.
>
>Weary