[at-l] Handbook and companion - Changes desired.

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

Another, easier alternative is to buy the Appalachian Trail Mate CD-ROM;
it is a great planning tool and allows you to print out customized
levels of information on 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper; in 2001 my printout
from this CD-ROM quickly became my primary source of day-to-day hike
information . . .

thru-thinker

Steve Adams wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Reference your post, dated 3-6-03, suggesting, "A good trail service would
> be to have a web site that hikers could go to and post errors or updates to
> trail guides."
>
> I combined information from the AT Trail Guides, The Companion, The Data
> Book, and hiking websites in a word processed format.  This detailed road
> crossings and directions to stores, Post Offices, and towns, Shelter
> locations, directions to water sources, dangers (e.g., steep cliff faces,
> dense poison ivy patches, dense rattle snake populations, notoriously surly
> citizenry, towns, or police), town information, including Post Office hours
> of operation.  It was a fairly concise usable format, running from Shelter
> to Shelter, printed on waterproof paper.
>
> Problem:  Updates.  Individual AT hiking clubs issue their respective Trail
> Guide in a new version; they don't list the changes of the previous
> guide(s).  To keep my personal guide current, I needed to re-read each new
> trail guide and fact check it against my list, or re-write it in its
> entirety for each changed section.
>
> Possible Solution:  Trail changes could be published, along with the
> mileage
> of each changed section, when the change occurred.
>
> Steve
>
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