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

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 04:01 PM 8/4/2005 -0400, RnR wrote:

>            The beauty of the AT is that after it is protected from Plum
>Creek-like insults the rough ridge route can always be improved with better
>treadway and perhaps switchbacks. I remember during my fall 1985 
>southbound through
>Maine a southern rural district representative complaining strongly about how
>the New England trail was a torture course and how the southern trail was
>switched and graded. The corridor isn't going anywhere.


Have they done anything about the climb
out of Sweetwater Gap, down below Fontana?

Now that was a climb desperately in need of
grading and switchbacks.  I remember it being
brutal.  I also remember being very thirsty.
There was no water at all in "Sweetwater Gap."


rafe b
aka terrapin 


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