[at-l] Approach Trail to Springer

[athiker at smithville.net (Felix)]

Quoting Bob C <ellen@clinic.net>:

> "and, on the other foot...I doubt that if you make it to Katahdin, you'll 
> say "Boy, I wish I'd done that 8 miles from Amicalololola..."
> But then on the other whatever, testicle maybe?, as you talk to wiser hikers
> over the years, you may wish you had done the approach trail, which from my
> observation is a perfectly fine -- maybe even great -- hiking trail, that
> most hikers would love to hike and maybe even would hike, were it not for
> discussions as silly as this discussion.

Kinda makes ya wonder why all those wise hikers don't just have the Trail start 
down at Amicalola, doesn't it? 



> 
> Bottom line. It matters not whether at the start of a thru hike, one hikes an
> extra six miles. It may matter as the decades progress, something I know more
> about as compared to those who have seen fewer decades.

I serously doubt that when I've seen a few more decades slide by I'm sittin' 
somewhere thinkin' "If I'd only hiked the approach trail..."  

Is that silly enough for ya?