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[at-l] Cell Phones -- Perception



At 03:38 PM 1/21/2005 -0500, RoksnRoots@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/20/2005 5:15:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>jbullar1@twcny.rr.com writes:
>*
>RnR, it doesn't and that is the point. While you worry about whether people
>carry a cell phone because  seeing/overhearing a cell phone call diminishes
>your sense of wilderness
>*
>           It's not so much seeing a person using a cell phone on the AT than
>it is seeing the whole concept of the AT itself trampled under by a mob that
>doesn't care to stop to notice. I think that was the point. I find the latter
>much more destructive to my sense of wilderness. I think that's mainly the
>point that's being missed by the average AT user...
>
>         I was surprised to see Wingfoot label cell phones an etiquette issue
>rather than a wilderness concept one. When I asked him about this he said
>confronting AT users on a philosophical level wasn't realistic with Trail
>demographics.

On that, he and I agree.

>Funny that seemed a complete reversal of what he was saying himself a
>few years ago and even banning people for. I think he's caught between his
>guidebook and his advocacy. Knowing most people don't care about organized 
>wildness
>I guess he's delivering it in a way hikers will respond to.

Maybe he has just had a reality check.