Correction: [at-l] ATC's 2000-miler Application

[hikenet@interactive.net (Thomas Caggiano)]

At 4:42 AM -0500 02/13/99, Thomas Caggiano wrote:
>At 6:56 PM -0500 02/12/99, CHoover241@aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 2/10/99 7:46:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>>bogey1@worldlynxyork.net writes:
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>> The Appalachian Trail Conference confers the designation of  "2,000miler"
>> on any individual who claims completion of the entire length of the
>> Appalachian Trail. We use the term "2,000-miler" as a matter of tradition
>> (the original estimated length of the A.T. >>
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CORRECTION:  First I apologize for my obvious error  in my prior post. Too
many patches and up too early as I am getting ready for a least a
presidental three day hike.. too bad it's not thru the Presidental Range
and the white :(

Obviously http://www.atconf.org/ is the Appalachian Trail Conference and is a
non-profit group of volunteers.

Dan Bruce, Wingfoot runs the "exclusive property of the Center for
Appalachian Trail Studies"  http://www.trailplace.com

Enjoy both sites.

The intent of my extended dialog was the simple Hikenet
http://members.aol.com/hikenet
statement "Enjoy life to the fullest"... let people know, they themselves
should
define their own AT experience..   Hike your own hike.

Thanks, Tom   ( all flames to atbeans@hotmail.com ).  Sorry for prior error.


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>Hmmm, this obvioulsy means that if the trail is rerouted from white to blue
>and a new white trail is put in, then the "wingfoot badge" does not represent
>any specific route since it changes constantly.  Seems the 2,000 is now
>"2,160" but we know that chances too. Now do you want to walk the miles
>through
>Vernon as orginally intended by the AT orginal designers to get some food
>and do the laundry and see the great people of northern NJ or do you want to
>walk through the new route through the swamp on all those plancks..
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>What is the AT experience, the people and town or the bugs and the DEET ??
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>I'll take the people like originally intended.
>
>I wonder if some one has the "original" AT route vs the current route.
>
>That would be a nice book, and can be made real interesting if one goes to
>the trail maintaining clubs and looks into the history of why the changes
>were made, the impacts on some of the local communities now bypassed by
>the people in the community. That should take a few years to complete
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>As far a hiking, your ego, your patches, your "rater", your humility, you..
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>Simple, your choice...  whatever you choose is just fine.. never look at your
>choice with anything but what is most enjoyable for you.  Miles, a patch,
>the original AT experience of visiting towns and seeing America, the path of
>purity ( which changes of course ), a smile..
>
>Whatever you do in not any lower in esteem they anyone else.  Hiking and
>the trail you take is yours and the experience you want is yours.
>
>Enjoy life not through someone else's view screens or rules or guidelines
>only yours.
>
>Choose what you want... see a beautiful waterfall, walk a deep ravine, follow
>whatever path you wish.  The life is yours, the enjoyment of what you want is
>yours. Never let anyone elses words, dictate your enjoyment of life or
>what you'd like to see or hear people, or towns, or a sunrise or good
>rain storm.
>
>Enjoy every minute of life.. It's your greatest treasure..
>
>The worst day on the trail is better then the best day in the office ;)
>
>Tom bear bells caggiano
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