Posted on 10/23/2020 11:31:55 AM PDT by SJackson
So if you thru hike in 2020, the "authorities" disallow it. Rename it the Potemkin Trail. Call Cuomo, have him shut down the trail in NY
None of those problems in the Rockies. Hike all day and see no one.
A legitimate thru-hike under current circumstances is an exponential power harder (or more) than the usual, which is very hard enough.
That is just ludicrous.
They are OUTDOORS, for crying out loud.
How much chance of catching a virus is there in a setting like that?
Very little, but that's not really the issue.
The issue is when they sleep in huts, church basements and whatnot at night.
The AT runs through my town in North NJ, the one church used to allow overnight stays in the basement but was closed by obergruppenfuhrer Murphy.
The chance of catching it on the trail itself is pretty close to zero but there are some boardwalks through our swamp where you have to pass people and breath in each others faces while you do it. What happened when everything shutdown in March, everyone in town had the same Idea...let's go walk the trail. There were thousands of people in an area that might see 200 in a day.
Not long after, they AT conservancy shut it all down.
I saw plenty of mask-wearing sheep at Glacier National Park a few weeks ago, about 20% of the people. Most of the license plates said California, Oregon, and Washington. You would think that they would want a break from wearing the face diapers.
Not Surprising at Glacier. I was thinking more along the lines of hiking in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. Or the Uintahs.
Do you have a 1500-mi trail along them?
You could blaze your own. It feels like 1500 miles sometimes only hiking 10 miles at 7000-9000 feet elevation.
A friend just got done with 55 miles on the AT. He said Virginia was disgusting. Scaredy cats would see him coming and scurry off the trail and face the woods so the big bad scary virus wouldn’t attack him.
None. It’s all about Statist control of the masses that they can control (and ignoring those they cannot control, like Aunty-Fay and BLM hoping they don’t get too out of control).
We went there last year (Medicine Bows). A little different clientele. But so much bug timber.
[[How much chance of catching a virus is there in a setting like that? ]]
About a 1 in 600 billion chance of gettign the v irus, and if they do, they stand a 99.9% chance of surviving it-
obviously much to risky, must shut down trail! /s
Youtuber Quicksand on the Trail made videos of his AT section hikes last April. Very few people were on the trail. He got hassled a couple of times by locals for being out when the trail was technically, closed.
Continental Divide Trail—3100 miles long.
Sadly, my very bad knees will prevent me from ever finishing the AT [south]. Oh well.
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