Re[2]: [at-l] Trip Report

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     Not to Worry! After paying the AMC, (and admittedly, after 
     snarfalating the typically good Hut meal) you'll be going without food 
     anyway!
     
     Oops. Did I say that? I'm sorry. That's no knock against the 
     hardworking "crues" who treat the huthoppers like paying customers and 
     the throughhikers like (to be polite) gum on their shoes. I saw both 
     behaviors as a throughhiker in '79 and again as a huthopper in '92. 
     It's just a manifestation of the Janus-like pair of brochures I have 
     cemented in my brain: "Come to the Friendly Whites!" ("We love you! We 
     love You!") and "Where your money goes" ("Look what you're doing to 
     the mountains! YOU'RE KILLING THEM! ALL OF YOU! Aaawg!") Reading 
     between the lines and the behavior, I've always read the message as  
     "Gimme yur money, then Go 'Way."
     
     I know, I know. I've heard it. But as a zero impact type, I expect in 
     return what I offer: No Impact. 


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Subject: Re: [at-l] Trip Report
Author:  "Alice Kauzlarich" <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us> at ima
Date:    10/2/98 11:42 AM


Sounds like someplace I'd wanna slackpack. 
I don't know if I could go without food!
     
 The Highlander
     
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> From: Thomas McGinnis <tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us>
> To: at-l@backcountry.net; Charles W. Davidson <wb4pan@mindspring.com> 
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Trip Report
> Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 10:10 AM 
> 
>      For a section hike, two weeks for the next 100 miles of Whites 
doesn't 
>      sound like a bad idea to me, but don't underestimate what you've 
>      already done in climbing Moosey-Lockey and the Kinsman Range. I 
think 
>      they've DEFINITELY given you a good tastey of the Whites. Yum! 
>      
>      One piece of advice, though: You definitely DON'T want to be doing 
the 
>      Whites with so much food you're giving meals and meals away. On 
>      flatter terrain, that kind of load will just give you sore shoulders
     
>      and hips, but in the Whites, you will DESTROY your quads (uphill) 
and 
>      knees (downhill) -- AND EVEN ON THE FLAT! -- because it is such a 
>      uniformly scrabbled treadway. Miles of it. Miles and miles of it. 
>      Plus-which, you'll be so busy looking for a foot spot to plant your 
>      heavy load that you'll never even see the above-tree-line scenery 
>      unless you stop. GO LIGHT! BE HEALTHY! Hell, I've even personally 
gone 
>      so low as to (one year) actually patronizing the Appalachian Money 
>      Changers huts: a daypack w/lunch. Even then it was still tough.
>      
>      Thanks for the good reading, and best wishes for the Whites. 
> 
> 
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> Subject: [at-l] Trip Report
> Author:  "Charles W. Davidson" <wb4pan@mindspring.com> at ima 
> Date:    10/1/98 7:08 PM
> 
> 
> Hi Gang,
>      
> 
> The climb down the north side of Moosilauke is something to see. Very 
> steep rock for a couple of miles. often pockets had been dynamited into 
> the rock for you to steep in. Lots of  wooden steeps were attached to 
> the rock face. I descended next to Beaver Brook all the way to Kinsman 
> Notch. 
> 
> 
>         The walk to Kinsman Shelter was the hardest I have ever done. It 
took
> me 7 1/2 hours to do this 10 miles. I had to crawl a couple of times. 
> The trail went straight up was very rocky with big rocks so it took big 
> steeps to go up them. Kinsman Pond was very nice in the star light that 
> night. The walk out by Lonesome Lake Hut was a lot easier. Lonesome lake 
> was very pretty, with great reflections of the surrounding mountains. 
> 
>  Only 96 miles to Maine! I think I will plan on two weeks for the next 
> 100 miles cause they say the Whites are much harder than anything I have 
> seen from Georgia to Franconia Notch.  
>      
> I wanna do it again
>      
> chase
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