[at-l] Follow-up on Genuineness of Contemporary Thru-hikes

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

maybe we could create a new round of "Espy" awards! <vbg>

thru-thinker

Jim Bullard wrote:

> Well, I just reread Gene Espy's account of his hike.  On page 51 (Hiking
> the Appalachian Trail - volume 1" (Rodale) he quotes an article written
> about him in the Tri-County Advertiser, Clarksville, GA.:
>
>   "Eugene Espy is the young man from Cordele, Georgia, who is hiking the
> Appalachian Trail, every natural-born step of it. When Mr. Espy reached
> Unicoi Gap he made a detour to Helen."
>   "The young man asked Mr. Taylor for directions to a seamstress who
> could
> mend his sleeping bag, Mr. Taylor says, 'I told him, and then I gave him
> some free advice.  First I told him he'd best go home to his mother, and
> when I saw he was of no mind to take that advice, I told him how he could
> short-cut up here to Tray Mountain, and avoid going back to Unicoi, I saw
> he was of no mind to take this advice either'..."
>
> So it appears (for the edification of inquiring minds who want to know)
> that the originator of AT hiking purity was Gene Espy.
>
> Saunterer
>
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