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Re: [at-l] Slackpacking

Grey Owl wrote:


>OK, I have heard enough about slack packing.  For a community that 
>has as it motto hike your own hike, you all are sure trying to get a 
>lot of people to hike your hike.  You think Pittsburgh is in it for 
>the money (maybe), you think he is ruining the 'trail experience' 
>(Read Ben and Gay's journal at Trail Place), what is your problem?  
>The most important thing is the outdoor experience.  On the East 
>Coast there is no wilderness left.  The forest on the AT are all 
>second and third growth.  Some of the land has been farmed and at one 
>time or another it was all owned by private indivduals.  It is not 
>natural, but that should not stop us from enjoying it to the best of 
>our ability and if Pittsburgh can help people who otherwise cannot, 
>then more power to him.  Now let us go back to hiking.
>
>Bob Dudley
>Grey Owl


I propose to open an AT amusement park that features all
the trail stuff for the rest of America to see. Wanna go?
Oh, a major movie co. is planning to make a big-screen
release of an adventurous thru-hike starring Johnny Depp
and Whoopi Goldberg. Boy, I hope that generates protection
of the trail.....

Love the trail to death?  OK, what terms?  Heighten its popularity
by lessening its challenge?  Whatever.  Hike your own hike
is pretty much a saying that can mean anything as long as
the majority agrees.  

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