[Cdt-l] CDTA

Tue Jan 17 15:24:34 CST 2012

  I can't be the only one to be thinking this, so I have to pose the question, and I'll admit up front I wasn't currently a CDTA member: Do others think it odd that, if financial difficulties caused the disbanding of the CDTA, that downsizing wasn't an option? The CDTA web site listed eight presumably paid staff, 3,000 members, and an office in Golden, CO, and wasn't there another field office? Was completely closing doors really the only option? Would someone from the CDTA be willing to address this? Downsizing obviously is not ideal, but many trail organizations do their work with fewer paid staff and resources, although not at the scale of the CDT. Was it really all or nothing? 
  It just doesn't seem plausible that abruptly closing was the only answer, and that there weren't signs of financial concerns months or years ago that could have been addressed then by the CDTA board and then to its members and supporters. It just seems like there's some extenuating circumstance.
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Ellis <tomteresa89 at gmail.com>
To: lynne whelden <lwgear at juno.com>; cdt-l <cdt-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sun, Jan 15, 2012 5:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] CDTA

What about the CDTS?
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----- Original Message ----- 
rom: "lynne whelden" <lwgear at juno.com>
o: <cdt-l at backcountry.net>
ent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:44 AM
ubject: [Cdt-l] CDTA

 The CDTA's closing its doors sent a shock wave through the hiking 
 community. Just when it seemed like there was some momentum building, what 
 with the new data books and the well-organized summer work trips and the 
 ever-increasing volumes of hikers each summer. It personally affected me 
 because I had just released my "Overexposed" CDT documentary and was 
 hoping the CDTA would add it to their store. I was hoping the video would 
 inspire and educate and mobilize.
 So now what? Will government agencies keep building trail only to have it 
 lie fallow from then on (as is already the case in places)? Will someone 
 step forward with a new vision for how to organize and marshall the forces 
 of long-distance/long-time hikers who by their very nature are fiercely 
 independent and are suspicious from anything smacking of boards and rules, 
 business-mindedness and corporate donations?
 Will the CDT(_) always be a 3rd cousin to the grand ATC and the PCTA? Will 
 the trail ultimately become a fuzzy corridor concept that never quite made 
 it off the ground due to lack of funds and clubs?
 lynne whelden
 lwgear.com

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