Re: [at-l] Hike the Approach Trail!

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

My experience altered for the better when I gave numerous pounds of food to 
a group of Boy Scouts I met as they came down.  I was used to weekend hikes 
in the Shenandoah's, was wearing 30# of excess body fat, and -- as I was 
finally on may way after two years of anticipation -- was too excited to 
pee.  Ahem, eat.  Breathe?  (Well, that too.)

jpJ

>From: "Mara Factor" <m_factor@hotmail.com>
>To: at-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Hike the Approach Trail!
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:37:41 PST
>
>OK, I'll chime in...
>
>I am very glad I hiked the approach trail.  I was used to having to hike to
>the tops of mountains and jut oculd not see getting a ride up.  I had heard
>the pros and cons before I left and figured that if I couldn't handle the
>approach, I probably shouldn't be out there.  I though that with the
>exception of the short road walk portion just before the falls, it was a
>very nice hike.  (Then again, I just don't like road walks.)
>
>That being said, here's the impression I got of other people's opinions
>about the approach trail...
>
>Those people who regularly went hiking on difficult mountains before they
>started the AT (like where I hike in the White Mountains) enjoyed the
>approach trail.  Most other people thought it was particularly difficult.
>There were mixed reviews from those that regularly hike mountains where the
>trails are more likely to be well graded (Olympics, Rockies, etc.) or who
>hiked often but on flatter terrain.
>
>There were an incredible number of people on the trail who had never hiked
>before, never put their backpacks on before starting the AT, etc.  They
>generally did not hike the approach trail (if they knew of the FS42 
>option),
>or if they did, did not enjoy it.
>
>There are exceptions to all of these impressions.  I am not trying to put
>words into anybody's mouth.
>
>Mara
>Stitches, GAME99
>
>
>>From: tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)
>>To: "AT List_at_Backcountrydotnet" <at-l@backcountry.net>,
>><HikingHope@aol.com>, "Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net>
>>Subject: [at-l] Hike the Approach Trail! was New to list- a few 
>>suggestions
>>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:06:11 -0500
>>
>>      Go on! Hike it. It's the tailor-made way to transition between the
>>      rush (in every sense) of Amicalola Falls and the impact (in every
>>      sense) of Springer.
>>
>>      Ask Mara.
>>
>>
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>>Subject: Re: [at-l] New to list- a few suggestions
>>Author:  "Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net> at ima
>>Date:    11/15/99 8:53 PM
>>
>>
>>
>> >You just dissuaded me from thinking in terms of doing the approach trail
>>this
>> >year.
>> >Kinnickinic
>>
>> >
>>*****Helpful and full of it are two of my middle names, lol, Coosa
>
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