[pct-l] NYT on the AT

[Tortoise]

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full article. Or perhaps try a trial sub?

Tortoise

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Kent Spring wrote:
> Here are the first few paragraphs and the URL for
> an article on the AT that some might find interesting.
>  
>
> happy hiking, Kent
> vvvvvvvvvvvv
>
> http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19towns.html?th&emc=th
>
> Hardy Trail and Its Fans Age Together 
>
>
> As a newlywed, married two weeks ago, Paul Dodson may
> have been skating on somewhat thin ice by leaving his
> bride behind so he could attend the conference of the
> Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the 80-year-old group
> that supports America’s most famous hiking trail.
> But then, two months after he had his left knee
> replaced a few years back, he was out hiking mountains
> in New Zealand, which says something about Mr. Dodson,
> 70, and about the demographic that turned out over the
> past week at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., for the
> 36th biennial conference of the conservancy (it used
> to be called the Appalachian Trail Conference).
>
> Completed in 1937, maintained by hardy volunteers and
> rendered fleetingly trendy by Bill Bryson’s 1998 book,
> “A Walk in the Woods,” the A.T. is one of the true
> wonders of American life, even if no one really knows
> how long it is (the conservancy now puts it at 2,175
> miles).
>
>
>
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