Official: Pinhoti won’t be part of Appalachian Trail - Rome News-Tribune

[WhiteBlaze]

Official: Pinhoti won’t be part of Appalachian Trail Rome News-Tribune, GA - Mar 31, 2008 Hikers familiar with the 2174-mile Appalachian Trail have started at Mount Katahdin, Maine, and ended at Springer Mountain in the Chattahoochee National ...

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[Lone Wolf]

no duh!

[Sly]

Maybe they can make it part of the ECT!

[Cuffs]

That article is just the GA PT group making their own statement about their stance on a relocation.

[SGT Rock]

I don't see it ever becoming a part of the AT, but it is still a great hike.

[Appalachian Tater]

Very short-sighted.

[Sly]

Very short-sighted.

I wouldn't say so. They already have an org and it would have to be absorbed into the ATC. Would they want the extra burden? Plus, you can already hike both if you want.

[SGT Rock]

At one time I thought it would be a great idea to extend the AT, but I've come to the conclusion that it really isn't needed.

[clured]

That's a shame. Why wouldn't you want to extend it? The Pinhoti is a fantastic hike, and it makes more sense to push the trail to the real origins of the ridgeline.

[Dances with Mice]

That's a shame. Why wouldn't you want to extend it? The Pinhoti is a fantastic hike, and it makes more sense to push the trail to the real origins of the ridgeline.

No problem. Georgia will trade you the terminus of the AT for the water in the Chattahoochee River.

Deal?

[Sly]

That's a shame. Why wouldn't you want to extend it? The Pinhoti is a fantastic hike, and it makes more sense to push the trail to the real origins of the ridgeline.

Nothing is stopping anyone from starting or ending in AL. An AT thru-hike is hard enough as it is for most. Very few would be able to thru-hike it with the Pinhoti included.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I think both the AT and the AL & GA Pinhoti are part of the GET and ECT already.

Let's face facts: the AT termini are etched in stone and the route is always going to be a single white blazed path with blue blazed emergency routes. It is what it is - no more and no less. If staying on a single path without alternatives is your thing, the AT is your kind of trail. If not, look at the GET and ECT.

Many of us have move on to the idea of developing the corridor concept in the eastern US - it is already in use on the CDT and PCT. This makes the Appalachian Trail only one trail making up a network of trails along the eastern coast that could become part of such a corridor - not the only trail nor the premier trail in the east. It is just one trail - just like the Florida Trail, Pinhoti in AL & GA, Benton MacKaye Trail, Long Trail, Cumberland Trail, Pine Mountain Trail, Allegheny Trail, Tuscarora Trail, Standing Stone Trail, PA's Mid-State Trail. Finger Lakes Trail and the International AT are trails.

As for overseeing organizations, if any mergers happen it would likely be the ATC that gets absorbed into another organization. The AT is just one trail - the other two are trail networks made up of several trails.

[Lone Wolf]

Nothing is stopping anyone from starting or ending in AL. An AT thru-hike is hard enough as it is for most. Very few would be able to thru-hike it with the Pinhoti included.

who cares. trails aren't built to be "thru-hiked".

[Lone Wolf]

I think both the AT and the AL & GA Pinhoti are part of the GET and ECT already.

Let's face facts: the AT termini are etched in stone and the route is always going to be a single white blazed path with blue blazed emergency routes. It is what it is - no more and no less. If staying on a single path without alternatives is your thing, the AT is your kind of trail. If not, look at the GET and ECT.

Many of us have move on to the idea of developing the corridor concept in the eastern US - it is already in use on the CDT and PCT. This makes the Appalachian Trail only one trail making up a network of trails along the eastern coast that could become part of such a corridor - not the only trail nor the premier trail in the east. It is just one trail - just like the Florida Trail, Pinhoti in AL & GA, Benton MacKaye Trail, Long Trail, Cumberland Trail, Pine Mountain Trail, Allegheny Trail, Tuscarora Trail, Standing Stone Trail, PA's Mid-State Trail. Finger Lakes Trail and the International AT are trails.

there is no ECT

[Sly]

who cares. trails aren't built to be "thru-hiked".

Well, they may not be built to be thru-hiked but they are.

[Lone Wolf]

Well, they may not be built to be thru-hiked but they are.

... with a large failure rate

[Sly]

If it happens, the ATC is going to get absorbed into the ATA? OK.

[Sly]

... with a large failure rate

Does not compute. No one should think they're a failure if they don't complete a thru-hike. Only anals would do that.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

there is no ECT

ECT

[Lone Wolf]

ECT

like i said. there is no ECT. oops. there is http://www.eastcoasttrail.com/