[at-l] Approach Trail to Springer

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C)]

Well, Felix, that is indeed silly. But I can trump you. For instance: I'm quite sure that my last thoughts will surely be, "whatever my other successes and failures in this life, I'm sure glad I hiked the approach trail. That's contingent, of course, on whether in those last moments, I even remember there is an approach trail and where it leads to -- or from. I spent several minutes today finding my car after buying a package of corn flakes at the super market.

For some reason the location of cars is increasingly unimportant. I had spent the morning writing an "op-ed" piece that attempted to explain in 700 words why -- despite the importance of alternative energy -- one shouldn't necessarily destroy the last wild places on earth in search therefor -- i.e. "we don't have to destroy the earth to save it."

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> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Felix <athiker@smithville.net>
> To: 
> Cc: "AT List" <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Date: Fri, Jan-6-2006 10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Approach Trail to Springer
> 
> 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? 
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