[at-l] FUBAR

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C.)]

>"...the two incidents are related, though one was technically no trail related.
>The FUBAR incident was and hikers like FUBAR give a bad name to hikers."

A comment that I agree with totally. But the latter event may be related, in
part, at least, to the growing use of the trail as a place for a six month
party. Rather than a chance to enjoy a refuge in the natural world, for many,
the trail is becoming a place to practice the worst excesses of modern
civilization.

I was warned of the problem before I began my walk in 1993. I was skeptical. But
I soon could see the trend beginning. Every hostel owner I've talked to since
has confirmed my impression that the situation is getting worse.

Increasingly, the trail is not a place where walkers go to escape civilization,
but a place to revel in the excesses of every day life, a place to extend
adolescence a few more years.

Weary