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[at-l] Cell Phones -- Perception



>"...Why are we so worried about MacKaye, anyway, when he wasn't even the one who put the trail on the ground?" asks Leslie.
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Well, I don't think?"WE" are worried about Mackaye at all. RnR simply?laments the failure of this and other AT forums to appreciate Mackaye's dream of a wild Appalachian Trail and from time to time criticizes those who seem to prefer a trail that is as civilized as possible.
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For reasons I find puzzling a few persist in denying that Mackaye ever wanted a wild trail and cite as evidence his initial proposal?in a minor circulation magazine devoted to what was then a fledgling profession of regional planners. In my?answer to OB,?I was simply pointing out the obvious, that though Mackaye?didn't promote a wilderness trail in that one article, he did so in hundreds of subsequent letters, publications and talks continuing over many decades.
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