[pct-l] The AT as a "green tunnel"

[Scott Williams]

It may be a green tunnel or not, but it sure has generated some beautiful
posts.  Thanks.  What I've hiked of the East has been in stunningly
beautiful, deep forest.  My wife is from Queens, and whenever we visit back
East she always has a very spiritual reaction to the green of the trees.
She usually comments as we fly in over the Eastern forests, "now that's
Green."  WA has green, and so does Oregon, but even our beautiful redwood
forests in CA, and I love our mtns and forests very much, are not as
intensely green as an East Coast forest.

Shroomer



On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:55 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

>
> >The "Green Tunnel" description does not do it justice - there are tons of
> >views.  I thought the forests were just great.  I couldn't get over just
> how
> >beautiful they were.
>
> I prefer to think of it as a colonoscopy of the Jolly Green Giant.  ;-}
>
> Okay , so that's just a joke, of course.
>
> I grew up on the east coast and explored the trails and lack of trails near
> my grandparent's summer house in the mountains. The big thrill was to go up
> to the "Bear Spot." Up there you could sit on some rocks and actually get a
> view. Never saw a bear up there but it was pretty exciting for a little kid.
>
> I think I was twelve or thirteen before I learned that it actually was the
> "Bare Spot," a bald created by a lightning strike. I went back as an adult
> and we couldn't find it. It had grown back and vanished.
>
> TrailHacker
>
> "When my feet hurt, I can't think straight"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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