[pct-l] Effect of a book on AT numbers

[Jim Lynch]

My impression was that the Ed Garvey book had a significant impact on the 
popularity of the AT.


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From: "Ann Gerckens" <volunteer_ann at sbcglobal.net>
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Sly wrote: "Do you seriously think the majority of hikers that year read the 
book only a year before and thought, "Hey, I'm going to hike the AT just 
like a failed Bill Bryson?""

  Seems plausable to me.  I met an amazing number of hikers in '88 who had 
never backpacked before; had never heard of the AT until...the 1987 National 
Geographic article.

  Splat!