[at-l] Solitude and safety, NOBO vs. SOBO? (was: young,Female SOBO)

[jls223 at cornell.edu (J Shirk)]

Rick, Wisperlight, Jim, Felix, and others, thanks for your responses to the 
NOBO/SOBO questions, they've been very helpful.

It's funny, though... here it was I thought this might be a question that 
would divert energies away from recent on-list rants, and yet it's lead 
right back to the same topic!    The very positive side of this, however, 
is I've finally seen that.... revealed beneath the interpersonal 
yuckiness.... is a legitimately interesting, if politicially charged, AT 
issue.  I have to admit that because of all the personal attacks I was 
deleting most of the previous posts entitled "put a cork in it", etc., 
before even reading far enough to benefit from the hidden meat of the 
message (well, I think in most cases there was meat to the message 
:).  Yes, that delete button can solve a lot of problems, but in this case 
I've apparently missed out on something meaningful... ah, if only I could 
access those archives!

Back to the trail...

~~Jennifer


At 01:14 PM 9/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >"... So why do you think that anyone is actually working to provide
> >"alternative trails"?
>
>Well one reason is that on Trails Day in June, MATC officially opened a newly
>constructed 17-mile loop trail that connects to the AT on East Baldpate. It's
>the first segment of what will be a 42 mile blue-blazed bypass of a portion of
>the Mahoosucs. It is on public and private forest lands and is a cooperative
>deal involving private owners, the federal government, Maine state agencies,
>AMC, MATC, Outward Bound and other organizations. The trail shows what can be
>accomplished when people work cooperatively. The new trail idea was first
>publicly broached at the 1997 ATC conference in Maine. Six years later it is
>becoming a reality.
>
>I have also championed the IAT and Earl Shaffer's dream of a new trail to the
>west of the AT, in effect, creating a 3,500-mile loop trail between the 
>southern
>and northern Appalachians.
>
>There are a lot of exciting ideas out there. But they won't happen as long as
>important segments of the trail community continues to oppose new public
>preserves, and continues to spread distortions and misconceptions about about
>past public land acquisitions.
>
>Nothing's perfect in this world. There will always be abuses by bureaucrats in
>positions of power, just as there are abuses by powerful private corporations.
>It doesn't help when trail users express boredom with discussions of the need
>for more trails and buffers for existent trails -- or outright opposition to
>more public land preserves.
>
>Weary
>
>
>
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