[at-l] Re: The Historic AT Route

[KAB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kurt Bodling)]

Walter,

Great answer, thanks.  I was hoping someone had already done
the map work.  I guess my answer will have to be like that (Zen?)
saying about not being able to step into the same river twice:  "You
can't hike the same Trail twice."

concordia
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> Message: 31
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:46:20 -0500
> From: Walter Daniels <wdlists@optonline.net>
> Subject: RE: [at-l] The Historic AT Route
> To: ATL <at-l@backcountry.net>
>
> > Speaking of which: is there ANY way of telling just how much
> > of the Trail which Earl hiked the first time is still the Trail today?
> >
> Sort of. The ATC archives and probably many of the maintaining clubs have
> archives of all the editions of the Guidebooks. So you can compare the
> appropriate Guidebook with the current one. However their mapping
> standards were much below current standards and the trail marked on the
> old maps is pretty schematic, i.e. only suggestive of where it might have
> been.........................