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Re[2]: [at-l] Re: AT-L digest, Vol 1 #1466 - 49 msgs
I too detest retracing my steps. When I bring my Scouts up there we park at
the FS42 parking lot and hike on the AT to Springer. On the return trip we
detour onto the Benton Mackaye and hike on that trail to 3 Forks and then
return to the parking lot via the AT.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob C." <ellen@clinic.net>
To: "Charles Copeland" <charles@uswnet.com>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [at-l] Re: AT-L digest, Vol 1 #1466 - 49 msgs
> >"...I'm wondering why more people don't use the USFS road to begin the
AT."
>
> I guess it depends on why you are hiking the AT. If you are hiking to
explore
> the wild trails of the Appalachian Mountains, the access trail from
Amicalola
> State Park is one of those trails.
>
> If you are hiking mostly so you can say you have "Hiked" the Appalachian
Trail,
> you would be advised to use the Forest Service Road.
>
> I had no firm plans when I arrived in 1993, other than having heard
rumors that
> Amicalola Falls was where one started. Someone tried to persuade me to
use the
> forest service road, but that seemed to add an unnecessary complication,
since
> I already had arranged for a ride to Amicalola. Saving 8.8 miles out of a
> projected 2,163-mile hike, plus walks to and from towns, walks to scenic
> overlooks, walks to shelters, walks to water falls, walks to historic
> places...., struck me as hardly worth thinking about.
>
> However, I have an instinctive, and probably irrational, objection (maybe
OB
> cab explain why this might be) to retracing my steps on a hike. So just
the
> requirement that I walk 0.9 miles twice probably would have negated a
forest
> service road start.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I've done hundreds of trails many times each. It's
just
> that when I start out in the morning, I like a linear walk or a round
trip
> walk, not a walk that shows me the same place twice on the same day.
YMMV
>
> Weary
>
>
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