[pct-l] NYT on the AT

[Kent Spring]

Here are the first few paragraphs and the URL for
an article on the AT that some might find interesting.
 

happy hiking, Kent
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http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19towns.html?th&emc=th

Hardy Trail and Its Fans Age Together 


As a newlywed, married two weeks ago, Paul Dodson may
have been skating on somewhat thin ice by leaving his
bride behind so he could attend the conference of the
Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the 80-year-old group
that supports America’s most famous hiking trail.
But then, two months after he had his left knee
replaced a few years back, he was out hiking mountains
in New Zealand, which says something about Mr. Dodson,
70, and about the demographic that turned out over the
past week at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., for the
36th biennial conference of the conservancy (it used
to be called the Appalachian Trail Conference).

Completed in 1937, maintained by hardy volunteers and
rendered fleetingly trendy by Bill Bryson’s 1998 book,
“A Walk in the Woods,” the A.T. is one of the true
wonders of American life, even if no one really knows
how long it is (the conservancy now puts it at 2,175
miles).



       
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