[at-l] options for the future of the AT

[cballs at verizon.net (Curtis Balls)]

Well I'm not a parent and I don't live with children.  What children want or
dream about these days is not something I have much awareness of.  I do
remember being 10 years old and walking in the woods a lot but I never
thought about getting a patch for it.  Belonging to a club, yes, but not
walking.  I liked club patches.  My brothers had FFA jackets, those blue
corduroy jackets with the FFA emblem on the back.  I thought they were
great.  NASA patches I wanted for going to the moon, but none for walking.
It never occurred to me.  I grew up on a farm in the 50's and 60's and we
didn't join a lot of clubs.  I wasn't in the Boy Scouts.  That was more of a
town thing, although from what I hear from my friends who were in the Boy
Scouts I missed a lot of fun.
 
It's nice that the ATC gives out patches, I don't think they should stop.
It's okay with me if someone wants a patch.  Does anyone remember that tune
from the early sixties, "Patches"?  Do all the hiking clubs along the AT
have their own patch?  I remember seeing some of them but not all.   I was
very happy to be on Max Patch including the one on the Trail.  
 
What hiking staff emblems?  The universal hiker symbol?  Do you mean they're
collectible stickers?  They stick them on their staffs?  They must not be
very big.  I have a hiker magnet that says "I'd Rather Be Hiking"  but have
I seen any of those you're talking about?  Where can I get some?    
 
 
 
  _____  

From: L. Clayton Parker [mailto:lparker@cacaphony.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:23 PM
To: Curtis Balls
Cc: 'AT-L List (E-mail)'
 
Obviously, you don't remember being ten years old...

My boys love collecting those little hiking staff emblems for their hiking
staffs. Never mind that both of them actually USE metal hiking poles, not
their wood staffs!

Lee I Joe


On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:09, Curtis Balls wrote: 
I can't imagine why anyone would go to all the pain and trouble to hike a
trail, any trail, for a patch.  They just aren't important to me.  I just
received a Life Member patch from the ATC.  I hadn't even thought about it
when I pledged last year so it came really as a surprise.  It's pretty but
I'm much happier that I was able to contribute to the ATC's work than I am
over a patch.  I don't know how much it cost to produce.  Should I return it
and tell them to keep the money?
 
Patched Balls  
 
 
 
SNIP
Like anything else in
life, it's what's inside that makes you real.
 
Saunterer
 
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