Teen wins photo contest while hiking Appalachian Trail - Press News

[WhiteBlaze]

Teen wins photo contest while hiking Appalachian Trail Press News, OH - 21 minutes ago Aaron Warrick won The Press-News photo contest with this photo, taken in front of a mural in Duncannon, Pa., along the Appalachian Trail. ...

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[KG4FAM]

We finally have a name for the "Cubby 08" carvings on all the shelters in Maine. Who wants to lead the posse to give this guy a good beating.

[Lone Wolf]

why? he didn't hurt anything

[weary]

why? he didn't hurt anything

LOne Wolf, had you worked seriously over the years maintaining the trail, I doubt you would have made that comment.

Regardless, this is what someone else commented:

Posted by Grizzly Bear:

"This kid vandalized almost every trail shelter in the state of Maine. He is no better than a street thug spray painting on the sides of bridges. You would think an Eagle Scout would have more respect for the trail, maintainers."

Weary

[santa]

I havent worked seriously but honestly i dont seem the harm in that at all. I enjoy reading stuff like that. And he is definitely no where close being as bad "street thug". Some people need to take there chill pills.

[santa]

I havent worked seriously but honestly i dont seem the harm in that at all. I enjoy reading stuff like that. And he is definitely no where close being as bad "street thug". Some people need to take there chill pills.

I haven't worked on the trail seriously but i dont see the harm in what he did. I enjoy reading stuff like that. He is definitely no where close to being as bad as a "street thug". Some people just need to take their chill pills.



I just need to reread before i post.

[Pedaling Fool]

He "vandalized" the shelters? Exactly what did he do? Sounds like that might be a little of an overstatment.

[weary]

He "vandalized" the shelters? Exactly what did he do? Sounds like that might be a little of an overstatment.

Those who worked in the rain, mosquitoes, and black flies, for most of a spring and summer will think of it as vandalism.

Those who think it isn't vandalism should do the same some time.

Let me suggest, John, that you think about how you would feel if you had built yourself a house -- or had one built for you. How would you feel if you came home one day and found it sprayed with paint? Would you consider it just a friendly juvenile prank? Or would you quickly call the cops?

Weary

[Hikerhead]

Those who worked in the rain, mosquitoes, and black flies, for most of a spring and summer will think of it as vandalism.

Those who think it isn't vandalism should do the same some time.

Weary

How about a picture.

[Pedaling Fool]

Those who worked in the rain, mosquitoes, and black flies, for most of a spring and summer will think of it as vandalism.

Those who think it isn't vandalism should do the same some time.

Let me suggest, John, that you think about how you would feel if you had built yourself a house -- or had one built for you. How would you feel if you came home one day and found it sprayed with paint? Would you consider it just a friendly juvenile prank? Or would you quickly call the cops?

Weary

What did he do?

[Lone Wolf]

"This kid vandalized almost every trail shelter in the state of Maine. He is no better than a street thug spray painting on the sides of bridges.

Weary

it's just a man-made wooden box that doesn't belong in the woods. no biggie

[Lone Wolf]

Those who worked in the rain, mosquitoes, and black flies, for most of a spring and summer will think of it as vandalism.

Those who think it isn't vandalism should do the same some time.

Let me suggest, John, that you think about how you would feel if you had built yourself a house -- or had one built for you. How would you feel if you came home one day and found it sprayed with paint? Would you consider it just a friendly juvenile prank? Or would you quickly call the cops?

Weary

it the choice you make if you choose to build one of these stupid boxes. quit whining and just maintain it

[weary]

it's just a man-made wooden box that doesn't belong in the woods. no biggie

That's because, Lone Wolf, you don't do serious trail maintenance work, so you have no conception of how real maintainers feel about the work they do.

Weary

[Lone Wolf]

That's because, Lone Wolf, you don't do serious trail maintenance work, so you have no conception of how real maintainers feel about the work they do.

Weary

you have no idea what kind of "maintenance" i've done on the trail. i'm not a bragger, patch wearer or lookin for pats on the back. i could give 2 poos about shelters. they're not the trail. they don't belong

[Wise Old Owl]

We finally have a name for the "Cubby 08" carvings on all the shelters in Maine. Who wants to lead the posse to give this guy a good beating.

I give up, I hate folks carving into trees & stuff but what proof do you have and why do you feel the need to track him down?

[KG4FAM]

I give up, I hate folks carving into trees & stuff but what proof do you have and why do you feel the need to track him down?

I didn't take pictures, but just go hike Maine and you will see "Cubby 08" prominently carved in most of the shelters. After seeing it over and over it kind of pisses you off. It like seeing litter on the trail, but knowing that it was coming from the same person every time.

[Lone Wolf]

I didn't take pictures, but just go hike Maine and you will see "Cubby 08" prominently carved in most of the shelters. After seeing it over and over it kind of pisses you off.

don't stay in dirty boxes. pissed off problem solved

[weary]

you have no idea what kind of "maintenance" i've done on the trail. i'm not a bragger, patch wearer or lookin for pats on the back. i could give 2 poos about shelters. they're not the trail. they don't belong

Well I garner opinions from the things you do say. You've told us the trail also is not "significant."

Weary

[Lone Wolf]

Well I garner opinions from the things you do say. You've told us the trail also is not "significant."

Weary

it isn't in the big photo

[weary]

I give up, I hate folks carving into trees & stuff but what proof do you have and why do you feel the need to track him down?

As Henry Thoreau famously said, some circumstantial evidence is pretty convincing such as when you find a trout in the milk.

When a thru hiker with the trail name of "Cubby 08" gets written up in a newspaper, I think one can fairly assume that when messages proclaiming "Cubby 08" are found carved into the wood of shelters they were most likely carved by him -- thougn I suppose it could be a wannabe girl friend trailing along behind.

Weary