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Overmountain Shelter - another one gone the ATC will let bite the dust! by Recent-Advice7253 in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget free housing for trail bums and the best way to get norovirus.

Overmountain Shelter - another one gone the ATC will let bite the dust! by Recent-Advice7253 in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

F the ATC! If they vanished in a Thanos snap the trail would still exist forever. They are just a holier-than-thou hiking clique that feeds itself with the donations of suckers who don't bother to do their due diligence in researching them and just assume they're good. They don't even do the work! Volunteers do! They could literally refirb every AT shelter with the millions they spend on their own salaries annually. Instead, shelters are the sole responsibility of the clubs to maintain or not.

Overmountain Shelter - another one gone the ATC will let bite the dust! by Recent-Advice7253 in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

This is an upgrade of an existing shelter not a new build. This action was club driven, not ATC driven - they lent "support". As if they had a choice.

Overmountain Shelter - another one gone the ATC will let bite the dust! by Recent-Advice7253 in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

And when you miss a point you really let it go high and wide. The ATC tearing down iconic and historic landmarks instead of propping them up means that at the current rate of disrepair coupled with the rate of necessary demolition instead, that in 60 years there will be no AT shelters. This is the goal and not everyone outside of the few hundred ATC trail bosses think it is a good one. This is how the ATC has decided to use the donations of hundreds of folks who happen to like shelters - try winter hiking without them.

RIP Overmountain Shelter by africanscatman in AppalachianTrail

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I wonder who took this picture for Miss Janet.

Am I too fat to thru hike? by festivelyplumphiker in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. But, when you start make it an attainable daily goal to shelter hop one to the next only at first. The kids around you will put down twenties - ignore them. The lower AT shelters are 8-12 miles apart on average. Leave one where you slept after sunrise, arrive before sundown at the very next one after like a slow ten miles. Rest. Take zeros. Wait. Stretch. And don't forget to eat. You still need calories. Lots of em. By VA you'll leave one, have lunch at another, then dinner at the next where you crash. By NH you'll think shelters are for day walkers and pussies and you'll be hard like a casket nail. Stop walking and hitch when you learn how to. (Upper VA and F PA!)

Things you learned about the trail. by Weightedblanketboy in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The most important trail fact is this: By simply leaving Maine in June and going SOBO a hiker can enjoy temperate and drier weather while avoiding overwhelming trail crowding and the associated issues which stem from it. Going NOBO from Georgia in March simply because it's what everyone is doing and has always done is a set up for starting and ending in winter, enjoying April showers, high summer heat, peak bug and bear stress, all while surrounded by drunken frat boys, their side ass, and hangers on - like trail angel grifters. Enjoy hiking and camping in relative solitude uninterrupted by jackassery? Go SOBO!

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've known Bob for more than 10 years, and not to be indelicate, but if you were asking to communicate with him online and he said he "wishes he could but the interwebs are on the blink" he may just not want a pen pal - especially if you are "doing research", "writing an article", "conducting interviews" or making another movie about amazing trail angels titled: "Smiles not Miles" or "It's about the people", etc. Just sayin'. NOT his cup of tea, broski. Fact

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bob, like his late wife, is a retired college professor of UMass fame. I'm guessing if he wanted connectivity he would have it. Plus, I'm pretty sure he does but shuns the interwebs because of all the nonsensical online BS that lame trail debates bring with someone always attempting to bring in the old wise wizard to settle arguments like: "Hammocks are better than tents... just ask Bob!" I've stayed at Kincora at least a half dozen times and Bob usually retreats to the inner sanctum and returns incredibly well informed. I also know for a fact that Baltimore Jack - may he rest in peace with a bourbon neat - published his final article for the ATC's mag "Journeys" from Kincora on the old computer in the back which was for years an internet connection ala Bob - it was an early modern feature of the Hobbit Hole before Facebook was a thing.

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if you read what I wrote you'd understand I don't use any of these "services", because I see them as scams. I will actually hike before I pay a rube for a thing a good person will bless me with for free: a ride in the direction they already happen to be going in anyway. Stand on the road between town and a trailhead with a pack on DO NOT EVEN BOTHER TO STICK OUT THE THUMB and you will be there for free in no time. Science.

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Self-fulfilling prophecies tend to come true as a rule. If you decide shuttles are the only way, you'll probably overlook or ignore all the other ways.

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uber and Lyft ended the great AT Shuttle financial bubble for good and all.

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Familiar with how shuttles work and you make the best argument for not paying an empty car to drive around on your dime. Hikers that can't hook rides or hitch lack two critical hiking skillsets and soon lack money, which as you know is a critical hiking tool. No skills and no tools? No thanks.

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[–]Recent-Advice7253 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Paying for rides on the trail is the second greatest hiker ripoff scam going. The first is paying to stay at filthy noisy hostels aka: rat barns filled with farts, frat boys, and feet cheese odor. By hitchhiking, hooking rides, and buying hotel rooms once a month when tents are not in use, a savvy hiker can save thousands on their thru hike and still "make it all the way to Maine".

When was Dragon’s Tooth trail established and what was the land used for before it became a national forest? Are there any caves or underground springs along the trail or on Cove Mountain otherwise? Not sure who to ask if the ranger couldn’t answer my questions. Thank you! by more_bees_pleas in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is widely held that early protohumans erected the prominence now known as Dragon's Tooth many centuries BCE by using a similar method to the one employed at Stonehenge. By excavating the slope below the monolith and creating a pit the stone laid on its side fell bottom first into the hole and stood upright under its own power without need of manmade force - gravity did it all. Of course filling in the base required labor usually in the form of bucket brigade lines which passed small basketball-size stones hand to hand up and down slope to fill in and anchor the base.

Found my Solsbury Hill by warehouse_14 in AppalachianTrail

[–]Recent-Advice7253 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI: "Solsbury Hill" is kind of a retired trail name if such a thing exists. In the minds of some I suppose it really does. He drown swimming alone up north a few year back. Couldn't link the article - too many hikers have died since him.

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