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    Meet the Hardest Partiers on the Appalachian Trail
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    Andrew Downs, Virginia regional director for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, says, “There was partying on the trail in the '80s' and '90s, sure, but it was contained and self-policed. If you left trash, other hikers would call you out. In the past ...



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    Superman, featured in the story, is the entitled brat who carved his logo into the Katahdin summit sign. The Katahdin Stream Ranger, alerted by disgusted other nobos, climbed by headlamp after her shift with wood putty and a can of Baxter Brown paint, to cover up his selfish vandalism.
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    "[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.

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    It's good to be a invidious like, don't be a sheep.

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    I'll say it again

    its good to be an individual, don't be a sheep.

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    It was inevitable that Trail Days would spill over in to a much more widespread party. Social media has certainly helped accelerate that trend.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteBlaze View Post

    Meet the Hardest Partiers on the Appalachian Trail
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    Andrew Downs, Virginia regional director for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, says, “There was partying on the trail in the '80s' and '90s, sure, but it was contained and self-policed. If you left trash, other hikers would call you out. In the past ...



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    pretty funny. buncha clueless kiddies

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    Quote Originally Posted by TJ aka Teej View Post
    Superman, featured in the story, is the entitled brat who carved his logo into the Katahdin summit sign. The Katahdin Stream Ranger, alerted by disgusted other nobos, climbed by headlamp after her shift with wood putty and a can of Baxter Brown paint, to cover up his selfish vandalism.
    Sad and unfortunate, but there is more to this story and the AT thru hike journey. From the link: “I was bullied mercilessly in school,” he says, describing his childhood in an affluent Michigan suburb. “I guess I was an annoying know-it-all. In high school, the whole hockey team would shoot pucks at me during practice. The AT erased the part of me that got bullied,” says Superman"

    I mean that speaks volumes. Yes he should not have done that, but this is years of therapy or a lifetime of repression erased and why something like the AT thru hike is essential, it changes lives for the better. Not perfect as we see here, but we are all human and all make mistakes.

    But more to that, and people tend to take this too far and far too often, but a life changing event tends to have one make a monument to that. If he really overcame a childhood of being bullied on the AT, I would give him a pass on such a monument, I know because the AT thru re-wrote my (very sad) childhood and changed my life. I didn't carve my name, but understand what such a thing means. Though I think he could have chosen a better way to do that. Really really wished he had. But can also understand it on a very primal human level. On a jury I would have to find him not guilty.

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    Sure, nobody ever partied like riff raff

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    Quote Originally Posted by Starchild View Post
    Sad and unfortunate, but there is more to this story and the AT thru hike journey. From the link: “I was bullied mercilessly in school,” he says, describing his childhood in an affluent Michigan suburb. “I guess I was an annoying know-it-all. In high school, the whole hockey team would shoot pucks at me during practice. The AT erased the part of me that got bullied,” says Superman"

    I mean that speaks volumes. Yes he should not have done that, but this is years of therapy or a lifetime of repression erased and why something like the AT thru hike is essential, it changes lives for the better. Not perfect as we see here, but we are all human and all make mistakes.

    But more to that, and people tend to take this too far and far too often, but a life changing event tends to have one make a monument to that. If he really overcame a childhood of being bullied on the AT, I would give him a pass on such a monument, I know because the AT thru re-wrote my (very sad) childhood and changed my life. I didn't carve my name, but understand what such a thing means. Though I think he could have chosen a better way to do that. Really really wished he had. But can also understand it on a very primal human level. On a jury I would have to find him not guilty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    Sure, nobody ever partied like riff raff
    nobody ever partied like Hobocentral

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    Quote Originally Posted by Starchild View Post
    Sad and unfortunate, but there is more to this story and the AT thru hike journey. From the link: “I was bullied mercilessly in school,” he says, describing his childhood in an affluent Michigan suburb. “I guess I was an annoying know-it-all. In high school, the whole hockey team would shoot pucks at me during practice. The AT erased the part of me that got bullied,” says Superman"

    I mean that speaks volumes. Yes he should not have done that, but this is years of therapy or a lifetime of repression erased and why something like the AT thru hike is essential, it changes lives for the better. Not perfect as we see here, but we are all human and all make mistakes.

    But more to that, and people tend to take this too far and far too often, but a life changing event tends to have one make a monument to that. If he really overcame a childhood of being bullied on the AT, I would give him a pass on such a monument, I know because the AT thru re-wrote my (very sad) childhood and changed my life. I didn't carve my name, but understand what such a thing means. Though I think he could have chosen a better way to do that. Really really wished he had. But can also understand it on a very primal human level. On a jury I would have to find him not guilty.
    Hard drinking, partying, and destroying property is not a "life changing event", whether you're walking in the woods while you do it or not. Everyone has problems, it's how you handle them that determines your character. He's done absolutely nothing to deserve a pass

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf View Post
    nobody ever partied like Hobocentral
    bunch a hobo sexual

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    Quote Originally Posted by TJ aka Teej View Post
    Superman, featured in the story, is the entitled brat who carved his logo into the Katahdin summit sign. The Katahdin Stream Ranger, alerted by disgusted other nobos, climbed by headlamp after her shift with wood putty and a can of Baxter Brown paint, to cover up his selfish vandalism.
    Well said Teej. This type of "entitled" behavior is all too prevalent on the AT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T-Rx View Post
    . This type of "entitled" behavior is all too prevalent on the AT.
    and all of the wailing and bashing of teeth will accomplish …………… nothing

    I have said it before, there is all of ONE law enforcement officer permanently assigned to the AT - more rules will solve nothing, without enforcement there are no consequences

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zea View Post
    .... Everyone has problems, it's how you handle them that determines your character. ....
    Thank you, very well said. Acting childishly and irresponsibly isn't a sign of overcoming problems and personal growth on the AT or anywhere else.
    If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

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    I guess I'm the only one that wonders what any of that behavior has to do with hiking the AT? I left early on my hike and fortunately did not observe a lot of hard partying and adolescent behavior among those on the trail. Never saw a drunk AT hiker and partying was almost subdued when it happened. I honestly look at that story and wish those ageing frat boys would disassociate themselves from the AT. I have never been to Trail Days, but it almost seems to have become an enabler for bad behavior and LNT attitudes that might persist long after Damascus. Not certain what the answer is, but towns along the trail would have my support in not allowing a minority of AT hikers to act like clowns and possibly limit opportunities for future hikers.

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    Members of the AT community, if they so choose to partake, have imbibed without being destructive or imposing unnecessarily on others. The free for all do as one wants as if one hikes(lives) inside a bubble supposedly not affecting anyone or anything with every questionable action attitude has got to go though. All in all, the PCT that currently goes to three states that have legalized medicinal and recreational cannabis usage doesn't(as of yet?) have the out of control partying issues as perhaps the AT community. Don't witness the level of drunkenness either on the PCT, and certainly not the CDT and every other trail I've thru-hiked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogwood View Post
    Members of the AT community, if they so choose to partake, have imbibed without being destructive or imposing unnecessarily on others. The free for all do as one wants as if one hikes(lives) inside a bubble supposedly not affecting anyone or anything with every questionable action attitude has got to go though. All in all, the PCT that currently goes to three states that have legalized medicinal and recreational cannabis usage doesn't(as of yet?) have the out of control partying issues as perhaps the AT community. Don't witness the level of drunkenness either on the PCT, and certainly not the CDT and every other trail I've thru-hiked.
    I wonder how many of the revellers take their inspiration from Terry Coyle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slo-go'en View Post
    It was inevitable that Trail Days would spill over in to a much more widespread party. Social media has certainly helped accelerate that trend.
    The AT is not the only game in town. There are hundreds of miles of backpacking trails in the mountains of NC/Va/TN/Georgia that offer solitude and sobriety. In my opinion and experience, there's nothing much worse than camping near a bunch of bonfire drunks. They just won't shut up.

    And the Superman I know is obviously NOT the Superman mentioned in the article. The Superman I know is a Vietnam combat vet. I wonder how many of these party kids running up and down the AT are vets??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Another Kevin View Post
    I wonder how many of the revellers take their inspiration from Terry Coyle.
    I was kinda wondering the same thing.

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