[pct-l] 1974 article in the Mountaineer about the "proposed" PCT

[Carl Siechert]

Wow, good stuff...

"...destroy a man's living just because a lot of bums want to walk on a
trail." (Yeah, that pretty well sums it up!)

"You can put up a chain-link fence along Buckman Springs Road to keep the
idiots out -- or else give us a license to shoot 'em down with shotguns."

FWIW, the temporary route in the '70s missed the Hook ranch (south of
Boulder Oaks) altogether; we followed paved Cameron Raod a few miles to the
east. But apparently the ranchers won. The line on the map shown in the
article -- and the proposed route shown in the '74 guidebook -- went along
the east side of Cottonwood Valley. But the final trail hugs Buckman
Springs Road on the west side of the valley, just as the ranchers wanted.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM Jeffrey Olson <jjolson58 at gmail.com> wrote:

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