[at-l] 'toe wanders in (long)

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 01:29 PM 8/3/2005 -0700, Sloetoe wrote:

>What a shame. What a loss. Even the Paramount Mountain has been
>sanitized. Soon I imagine, Maine will become like every other AT
>state, with every wetness bridged, every climb sanitized, every
>(remaining, 100 yard long stretch of) logging road replaced with
>strips of rocks and roots to make even the simplist lake country
>traverse a perverse, foot-pounding struggle and punishment.
>Wacky. And shameful. Earl Shaffer had it right in his 1998
>comments.


Nice report, that was a fun read.  In the 30-odd years
I've known the trail, I've seen a lot of changes.

I wish they weren't in such an all-fired hurry to kill
the roadwalks.  Some are (were) downright pleasant,
and some were replaced by classic PUDs (eg
Pond Mtn.)  On one level I understand why this "must"
be done... and on another, it feels like a loss.
Few in 2005 will know what the AT was like in 1990,
much less 1979.

Often I think the AT was designed by masochists.

The main question is why I'm still so attracted to it
after all these years.


rafe b
aka terrapin  


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