[pct-l] Great Eastern Trail

[Deems]

Check out the author's references to the PCT and CDT toward the bottom of 
the article...
http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/southeast/tn_stories/061806trail.html
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Pretty cool! There's still some passionate adventurers building trails in 
the Eastern USA. Sounds like a great AT-ET loop in the making. And yes, when 
passion drives one's dreams, simple errors in the preacher's surmon to the 
choir may occur...
"It's nice to be out here in the wilderness area with a group, instead of 
just hiking," he said.

Standing atop the cliff overlooking the rapid, Devine lets loose a relieved 
sigh.

"It's going to be there much longer than all the paperwork I grind out," he 
said. "The staircase down there is going to last a century."

To have an unimagineable number of wilderness lovers hike along your hard 
earned hand built and dreamed trail for years, is a great reward; on a par 
with the hikers that dream and hike these trails to fulfill their own 
lifelong wilderness adventures..

This picture is shows a very incredible hand built stairway in the Sierra 
along the John Muir Trail near Silver Pass that always amazes me whenever 
I've seen it.  This staircase is going to last for a century, and more..

http://www.pbase.com/losthiker/image/55561806/original