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  • Quote from jimmyjam: “Mountain lions in North Carolina? You've got a good imagination. ” Yeah, I understand why the naturalists/similar claim there are none here in these parts. Probably a wise move. They are around. Quite a few people in this neck of the woods have seen at least one (at least two different ones have been seen) although they're not around often. Somebody's mother-in-law was sitting out on the deck a couple years ago and the tan one strolled right past a few feet away and scared …

  • Just saw the bacon bit. Man is that funny. That is the ultimate in redneckery. My entry is nowhere close and doesn't even include a monkey. Ahh, got sidetracked thinking of Maureen and had forgotten to include the redneck parts anyhow. [deleted] Datto

  • Hey, here in Murphy we're in the 95th percentile of rednecks and automatic weapons per capita in the United States. No hip hop of course but plenty of live music in town. I'm surprised at the number of CxO types who have very nice places here. Murphy Bulldogs are seven time state champions in football also. Really glad I bought a cabin here. Terrific little town. One of the best things I've ever done for myself and the crew here. And the AT is nearby too. Easy to drive over in no time and head n…

  • Quote from AnotherKevin: “With the AT being so very popular, the government will be looking to sell it off to private concerns who can try to make a buck off it. ” Easy counter. We invite Abe to stay at The Doyle. For Free. Then we trot him up a couple of shelters north. Tell him he's survived the grizzlys and make him an honorary AT thru-hiker at the ceremony. Big smile at the photo op for the Times. Someone get ahead of that quote, "Woks harf, ship tee !" For everyone else, I didn't even menti…

  • Quote from meat: “might as well put a toll booth up ” Sombody's gotta go back to Springer and get a sload of dimes. Datto

  • Speaking of selling-off.. These are my commemorative No-cotton T-shirt ideas for 2017 AT Hikers (all in Hiker Black of course): ----------------------------------- Kissed the Princess. Not An Ugly Stepsister. GAME 2017 ----------------------------------- Impose Will. Protect The AT. Do Your Job. ---------------------------------- Jens. We're Doin' It. GAME 2017 ---------------------------------- ATC Sold Katahdin (and all I got was this lousy T-shirt) ---------------------------------- Rule 1.3.…

  • Quote from IMScotty: “But really Datto, cannot we all just try to get along. ” The ATC Leadership has enough information, opinion and remarks on their website, here and elsewhere to make the right decision. Not much else can be done -- it has become a question of will and leadership for the ATC. Thanks for the interesting debate. Datto

  • My observation and experience sees the problems getting Bissell all wound up (besides the Jurek situation) are being caused by Miscreants and Malcontents arriving with a backpack in Baxter from big cities south of Baxter. I'm not sure those types of people could be guided by the ATC -- those people would be trouble no matter where they happen to be. Bissell mistakenly claims those Miscreants and Malcontents are all AT thru-hikers (although I see someone at least tried to educate Bissell so now h…

  • Forgot -- Here's the short version: Simple doesn't necessarily mean easy. Doing The Right Thing doesn't necessarily mean easy. Not Doing The Right Thing always means weakness. Keeping the AT ending at Baxter Peak on Katahdin is the easy road and is clearly The Right Thing. It's already there and in-place -- no changes necessary. Just enforce, by whatever means necessary, the easement Baxter has implicitly/tacitly/explicitly granted to AT hikers and the ATC over the last 70+ years. Why do things …

  • Here's why being soft with Bissell & Company will never work. Bissell has been an AT Hiker-Hater for a decade. He's the Anti-AT Hiker. He is making the ATC Leadership, the nice guys, look like fools. That is his long-term plan in order to cement his glorious legacy -- he wants to be known as the guy who kicked the AT out of Baxter to preserve it only for the people from Maine (Outsiders Not Welcome Here). His predecessor was the same and I witnessed aggressive, severe anti-AT ranting behavior fo…

  • Rather than all of us worrying about whether the ATC Leadership will do The Right Thing about Katahdin... Let's make this easy. I'll call Putin at the dacha. Datto PS: Who's got a spare Super Bowl ring? A real big gaudy one...

  • Quote from max.patch: “f K goes away in about 10 years people will miss it about as much as they miss mt. oglethorpe. ” Ha, you're joking, right? Of course you are. Yoo finny guy. Well I suppose we can also just round off the Boston Marathon to an even 26.0 miles and skip those last few hundred insignificant yards to the finish. Who would care in Boston, right? And let's also move the finish line for the Indy 500 out on Speedway Avenue someplace and just call it the Indy 470. Who would care, rig…

  • ATC Leadership -- How hard can this be?? Put out a statement on the ATC website saying this: "The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will protect and defend free passage by AT hikers on the existing Appalachian Trail corridor from the Abol Bridge area to Baxter Peak on Mt. Katahdin." Done. Do Your Job. Datto

  • It's past 5pm ET again. Has anyone seen the ATC's backbone? It's probably around here someplace. Look in the closet where the trail smoothers are kept -- see if it's hanging on the wall to the left. Not there? Huh. We'd better order another from Amazon. Who's got Prime? Hey, if it shows up on eBay, someone let me know. ATC Leadership -- What are you going to do when that Bohemian corporal up north wakes up in a bad mood one day -- and no one without a Maine driver's license is allowed to climb K…

  • If I was going to become an instructor for those who are prospective AT thru-hikers, one of the assignments I would give to my students is to watch a complete season of the television show Alone (10-12 episodes or so). I think it's on the History channel if you're watching TV on Channels versus downloading. In the most recent season of shows, ten Americans (from the thousands who applied) are dumped out into a mountainous area of Patagonia alongside a large lake, spread about 5-7 miles apart (fo…

  • Okay, I've thought this through again and here's what we should do about overcrowding on the southern AT. The Achilles heel of the AT Hall Pass registration idea is the manpower necessary to check the hall passes on the Trail. On behalf of the ATC I've contacted the Bigfoots who live along Georgia Highway 515 (link below). They're willing to man the registration tables for the southern AT as long as no one makes comments about their body hair. No snide remarks about laser treatments or Epiladys.…

  • Honestly, if you guys don't take advantage of their Booty Rewards program, you are missing out. I keep my Booty Card zip-tied to the strap on my hiking pole just so it's always handy. I had forgotten about that ZUP license plate. We must have laughed for a half an hour afterward. No more difficult hitch-hikes for us -- we'd simply hike to The Booty. Datto

  • Quote from LIhikers: “Does that mean you don't want us to take any of your posts seriously???? ” I'm always a pretty serious guy -- count on seriousness. Below is the hiker shuttle I was talking about for Baxter. The two ladies that own this shuttle service are very hiker friendly too. They're planning on having a special hiker offering called the Baxter Peak-A-Booty Package. Two nights in a bunkhouse and rides with The Booty back and forth all the way to Millinocket. As an extra bonus since the…

  • I am 100% against any crazy nutball idea about moving the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail from Baxter Peak on Katahdin. Why change in order to just settle for some ugly stepsister mountain when the Princess is at hand? Just so a crazy park ranger can get famous? Instead, resist. Resist the tinhorn sheriff up there at Baxter who's just trying to create a name for himself. Shut him down. Impose will on the clod. Set him straight on what he's going to be doing, then check to make sure he…

  • Okay, all seriousness aside... These are my recommendations for the leadership of the ATC about the situation at Baxter State Park: 1) ATC Leadership -- Stop being so completely naive. You should know by now, already even, your amicable efforts have been for naught. I'll spell this out for you in plain English -- this isn't a wolf in sheep's clothing up north -- it's a viper up your pants leg. Bissell is intent on destroying the north end of the Appalachian Trail and already has a plan in place …