Mountain Crossing at neels gap will make more money.
Mountain Crossing at neels gap will make more money.
Sure would be funny if they shot it during the peak thru season.
Real hikers told they can't hike or camp where ever. I'd like to see that.
They probably won't use very much of the AT, only where they can drive to it and park all kinds of trailers.
Somewhere out there the CEO of Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) is smiling.
It would be funny to see the miles of film on the cutting room floor of random hikers walking through the set smiling at the camera, or spittin, fartin, brushing teeth, stokin the campfire, hanging dirty wet socks, etc.
It will definitely increase Whiteblaze.net traffic, IMO.
Skids
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If they include a FRACTION of the educational environmental stuff that Bryson crammed into that book, then it may be a movie of a lifetime.
RainMan
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Doesn't anybody remember the book?? Bryson did not paint a pretty picture of hiking. If that is conveyed in the movie, the bears, the hardship, the 'deliverance' type of trail town, the numbers may actually drop.
"It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America." - Daniel Boone
It was a good book, I found it humorous, should be a funny film if they adapt it correctly.
Kirby
You are right. Consider Blood Mountain possibly then. Several films have been made on the road over the mountain and they all used Vogel on the north face as a base of operations.
I worked on the Patrick Swayze movie, Black Dog, that filmed on the mountains here for about 4 weeks, with Vogel as the base. You really can't beat the meals and snacks put out there by craft services on the set of a movie. I don't know how all them actors stay fit. Good eats!! LOL
By comparison, after "A River Runs Through It" came out, Orvis a leading flyfishing equipment company, had sales increase by 400%!!! Will this movie do the same for outfitters, shuttlers, trail towns and the number of thru hike attempts?
I only section hiked the 100 Mile Wilderness because of Bryson's book. I admit I'd never heard of it before I read it and knew very little about the AT in general. One of the guys attempting a thru-hike I met in Maine told me he only decided to hike it after reading Bryson's book also. A mainstream movie will certainly increase traffic by a substantial amount.
Karo beat me to it...I've heard flyfishermen talk about how they enjoyed certain streams before "The Movie".
I think I once heard somewhere that most people from overseas, that hike the trail, first learned of the AT through the book.