[at-l] Stile trivia...

[daveh at psknet.com (David Hicks)]

FWIIW

The ATC's _Appalachian Trail; Design, Construction and Maintenance_ 2ed list 
states on page 130, "Four type stiles are worth discussing here: step stile, 
fence-ladder stiles, the British standard stile, and dodgeways."  On page 131 
the last sentence of the paragraph on "dodgeways" is "Farmers may worry about 
this stile."

So, I assume that a dodgeway is a stile, for our purposes -- Webster 
notwithstanding.

Chainsaw


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
To: "Felix" <AThiker@smithville.net>
Cc: "AT-L" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Stile trivia...


At 09:20 AM 3/26/2005 -0500, Felix wrote:
>South Walker wrote:
>
>>In 1999, sobo,  the last one I saw and remembered was on the souther edge
>>of Max Patch.
>
>
>what about that funky ramp-over-the-fence-to-keep-the-pigs-in thing in the
>Smokys? South of Clingman's a day or two...Is that still there? Is that
>consider a 'stile'. Or, a ramp-over-the-fence-to-keep-the-pigs-in thing?

Most dictionary definitions of 'stile' stipulate that they involve 'steps'
however stile is also part of the word turnstile which allows one to pass
through rather than over a fence. I would feel safe including a ramp in the
definition of 'stile'.

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