Appalachian Trail record-setter pays $500 fine, still feels ‘used’ by Baxter official

Portland Press Herald ^ | September 9, 2015 | Kevin Miller

[billorites]

Sadly, this only reinforces the stereotype that Maine sucks.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Rules are for other people.

[Paladin2]

Wait ‘till the Muzzies impose Sharia on the AT.

[Paladin2]

Bammy doesn't obey the rulz, why should others obey arbitrary and capricious rulz?

Besides we already have way too many laws in an impossible (Catch22) situation where even the low information legal citizen is held to an illogical standard of having to be conversant in ALL of the rulz, at his peril. Even Cruz couldn't stay clear of violations. Daily.

[Paladin2]

Besides Dogs have rights too.

They are there in Constitutional penumbras that I could readily construct.

[MeshugeMikey]

wait til Obie from Nairobi renames it the Mohammad Trail

[terycarl]

and people wonder why folks are losing respect for the law.....sheesh.

[RandallFlagg]

"Maine’s Mount Katahdin"
Sorry, but that name is what drew me to this post, because of THIS movie:

Prophecy: The Monster Movie

[Paladin2]

I'm going to have to start revisiting Cherokee history.....

(and not the SUV)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Why not just move the northern terminus to Baxter State Park’s park ranger office? Have a guest book there for all hikers to sign, have a side room where you can celebrate with some champagne (brewed and sold only at that state park), have staff on hand to take photos and present a certificate of completion, and things like that.

[telstar12.5]

Silly mountain; folks had to build a 13’ cairn on top to even make Katadin a mile high.

A mere foothill here in the “mountain west”.

[Redbob]

Stereotypes are usually based on fact.

It appears that Maine has its own alternative to gravitation...

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

It’s not Maine that sucks; it’s a bunch of liberal nanny-staters that made a big deal out of this non-event that suck.

[Squantos]

He should’a brought a 40 of that Okie 3:2 Beer ...... can’t be accused of getting drunk on that crap..... :o)

BTTT...

[Redbob]

Dufus J. Overbite, aka Jensen Q. Bissell...

[Fiji Hill]

The movie(A Walk in the Woods) is an adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name in which humorist author Bill Bryson chronicled his failed attempt to thru-hike the AT.

Not long ago, I Bill Bryson's One Summer: America in 1927 (New York: Doubleday, 2013), a very poorly-written book that looks at history with a one-sided left-liberal bias. I hope the book on which the movie is based is better.

[meyer]

I’ll stand with the runner, Scott. Silly law, fine paid, end of story.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“A mere foothill here in the “mountain west”.”

Ah, you start counting at a mile high. Cheaters.

[muir_redwoods]

yes but eastern mountains start much nearer sea level