RE: [at-l] AT Past Present & Future - Wilderness Experience, Purity and the T...

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel the AT has evolved
> along with
> society and still fills the need of the vast majority and their
> current life
> style to get out and have a wilderness experience.  For those of
> you who are
> much more experienced with hiking, back packing etc. and need
> more solitude,
> more challenges, then I guess the AT seems over populated and
> more like a hike
> from one grocery store to another.  I think there are still lots of areas
> where you can find these challenges.  For the rest of us...the AT
> is pretty
> darn challenging just as it is.

Well then, I'd say the AT is still doing the job its creators envisioned, if
not quite the way they envisioned it.

Lee I Joe

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