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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jim - Sorry if I hit a nerve there. Actually, I did have interactions going back quite a while relating to the conjoined CT/CDT. That story had a rocky beginning and a good finish, largely due to the staff shakeups that occurred a few years back. The organization that I worked with for the past three years was nothing like the one that you found so frustrating. Hopefully the recent events will enable everyone to finally get past all that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jerry Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:bcss@bresnan.net"><span style='color:blue'>mailto:bcss@bresnan.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.bearcreeksurvey.com"><span style='color:blue'>www.bearcreeksurvey.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jim and_or Ginny Owen [mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> bcss@bresnan.net; cdt-l; Blisterfree<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Cdt-l] a gentle reminder<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>You never talked much to the original founders of CDTA, did you. <br>I did. Until they told me to not call back. <img border=0 width=19 height=19 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/smile.gif" alt=Smile> <br> <br>Their grand vision was of a trail to rival the AT in usage and prestige. <br>They dismissed thruhikers as irrelevant because there were so few of <br>us - without realizing that we were pretty much a majority out there. <br>Not putting them down - they just had the wrong vision for this trail. <br>I think Brett's post makes that clear enough. <br> <br>I respect what you're doing - and have done, Jerry. But I don't think your <br>memories are quite as long as mine. <br> <br>Jim<br><br><a href="http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/">http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/</a><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From: <a href="mailto:bcss@bresnan.net">bcss@bresnan.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com">spiriteagle99@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a>; <a href="mailto:blisterfree@yahoo.com">blisterfree@yahoo.com</a><br>Subject: RE: [Cdt-l] a gentle reminder<br>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:15:47 -0600<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Not sure where you got that. This is the CDTA Vision statement: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“The nature and purposes of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail are to provide for high quality, scenic, primitive non-motorized recreational experiences, primarily for the hiker and horseman, and to conserve the nationally significant natural, scenic, historic and cultural resources along the Continental Divide.”</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>best wishes,</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jerry Brown</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:bcss@bresnan.net">mailto:bcss@bresnan.net</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.bearcreeksurvey.com" target="_blank">www.bearcreeksurvey.com</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:currentColor currentColor'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net">cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net</a> [<a href="mailto:cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net">mailto:cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim and_or Ginny Owen<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> cdt-l; Blisterfree<br><b>Subject:</b> [Cdt-l] a gentle reminder<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Brett - </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Perhaps when the CDT was first proposed, there was a sense that the trail </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> would somedaystand alongside the AT and, to a lesser extent, the PCT, as</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> a recreational resource in which our time and manpower invested would </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> be returned to us in spades through intensive public use of the resource</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> from border to border.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This was the original vision and hope of the CDTA. I don’t believe CDTS/Jim Wolf ever labored </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>underthe same illusions. And I won’t comment further on that. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Today, I think we know this vision of the CDT is simply not to be, is not workable,</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> does not comport with reality. </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes. Thank you for saying so well what many of us feel about the trail but lack the time, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>energy or words to say. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Walk softly, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jim</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><a href="http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/" target="_blank">http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>