Alabama connects to Appalachian Trail - Troy Messenger

[Cuffs]

Don't forget the Official Frosty "bypass-the-big-ridge-in-Cheaha-and-go-straight-to-the-restaurant-in-the-Park" Road Walk

Oh how could I forget that!? but I could hear that warm cozy hotel bed and hot shower calling your name all the way in the Wilderness!

[Frosty]

That might be OK for some (and don't get mad here when I say this, I mean no disrespect) but if I'm gonna walk on the black top (yellow blaze), I can yellow blaze at home. Just my 3 cents worth. No offense meant.

Depends on the road for me. Some road walks are pretty awesome, meandering through country past farms and such. THey are especially pleasant in late afternoon. You can hear cows and smell hay and hear voices that carry over the fields. Makes you feel you've gone back in time, and gives you a yearning for what Thoreau might have enjoyed. I don't mind those road walks at all.

Other road walks are on the (mostly non-existent) shoulder of a busy two-lane highway where you have to step into a ditch every other minute to avoid have the side mirrors of a big truck take you head off. Those I don't like.

[halibut15]

Shouldn't the whole point be that there's more trail to hike in the South now, rather than arguing about whether or not the AT terminus will be moved? I personally don't think it should be moved or ever will be, and I doubt that's the whole point behind the Pinhoti existing in the first place. The Cheaha section alone reminds me a lot of sections of the AT. Stop bickering and start hiking...there's a lot more trail to explore now.

[Cuffs]

Well said Halibut!

[Lion King]

AL-ME

n.

1.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Al-mehs lift their arms in dance. - Bayard Taylor.

[ki0eh]

I wonder if trail clubs could impose "eminent domain" and just take the land we want/need for trails? Now that would be a good use of ED!

That's been done for the A.T. Good way of building local animosity for generations (think US 19E area in Tennessee?). Also the reason why other National Scenic Trails can't even get "willing seller" authority.

There are ways of obtaining permission to cross private lands with footpaths, they involve a good deal of patience and humility and starting on the right foot (and perhaps acceptance of hunting season closures). Some groups seem to have (perhaps by sheer necessity) developed workable strategies in the absence of $$$. I wish there were a better way of information transfer among the volunteer clubs for stuff like this. Anyone interested in specific contacts on this issue PM me.

[Coosa]

The thing I thought was especially interesting about the NPR story is how they equably and affirmatively used two different pronunciations of "Appalachian".

Don't you know there are TWO ATs? Going NoBo it's the App a latch'un
and going SoBo it's App a lay shun.

Always been that way according to my source in Damascus, VA.

LOL, Coosa

[envirodiver]

Cuffs, this new set of trails ties in with the BMT and AT at springer as I understand. How many miles of trails?

The interesting thing to me is that you could tie it in to the BMT and make a much longer trail then with the AT loop, would be very nice.

[kayak karl]

Alabama connects to Appalachian Trail Troy Messenger, AL - 24 minutes ago At 2 pm Sunday, March 16, the Pinhoti Trail at Cheaha State Park will be connected officially to the Appalachian Trail. A permanent historic marker ...

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the Pinhoti Trail runs half way through Alabama and should connect to the Flordia trail in the future.

http://www.greateasterntrail.org/AL.htm http://www.hikealabama.org/

question is: can you hike from the end of the Pinhoti trail to the Flordia trail now. there seem to be many trails that could be connected with road hiking .
has anyone done this?

[Cuffs]

From the southern end of the PT, you can get to the FT, but it is all blazed road walk...

The PT is 136.x miles in AL and a total of 324.x miles.

The BMT/ PT connection is about the 69MM of the BMT (NOBO from Springer)

[JAK]

Cool. Does the trail go anywhere's near Maycomb?

[Cuffs]

Maycomb, what?

[kayak karl]

From the southern end of the PT, you can get to the FT, but it is all blazed road walk...

The PT is 136.x miles in AL and a total of 324.x miles.

The BMT/ PT connection is about the 69MM of the BMT (NOBO from Springer)

cool, are there maps for this to purchase and where if there are.
thanks for your answer Cuffs

[Cuffs]

There are PT maps, but they are under revision right this moment. I'd wait, the ones that are available are not so great... A water/tear proof pocket sized guide book will be out soon!

[Grandma]

There are PT maps, but they are under revision right this moment. I'd wait, the ones that are available are not so great... A water/tear proof pocket sized guide book will be out soon!

Do you know who is putting this together? I would like to have one of these guide books.

[kayak karl]

Do you know who is putting this together? I would like to have one of these guide books.

i think this is the one cuffs is talking about, but i might be wrong http://www.pinhotitrailalliance.org/...uideorder.html
i ordered one anyway. money won't go to waste

[birdygal]

One of the road trips on the pinhoti is right thru main street of Dalton Ga The pinhoti roadway trail starts where it has to cross I-75 at Dug Gap I hike a 20 mile section starting at Dug gap to snake creek . I have never been on the AT but the pinhoti is white blazed on the 20 mile section that passes my home mentioned above not blue blazed the trail heads are blue blazed

[Cuffs]

KK, that is not the one I was referring to. That one is printed on someones home computer, and has many extra, but not really needed pages. This one will be done by an established publisher/printer. For a reference, it will be very similar to the one the BMT now has.

[Dances with Mice]

They're even talking about it in Russia!

The Leningrad Cowboys (...a rock group...) teamed up with the Red Army Choir to celebrate.

[kayak karl]

KK, that is not the one I was referring to. That one is printed on someones home computer, and has many extra, but not really needed pages. This one will be done by an established publisher/printer. For a reference, it will be very similar to the one the BMT now has.

......ty