[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

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

[Seruzawa]

None of those problems in the Rockies. Hike all day and see no one.

[ripnbang]

At the very beginning when we got back on the trail, we received one or two negative comments on YouTube or Instagram
Really? Who cares. Go do what you do...no need to share it with the world, or, more importantly, care what others think of it.

[Bonemaker]

The only "thru hike" I'm interested in these days is to the bathroom or bar.😎

[metmom]

But as news of the COVID-19 outbreak spread in the spring, The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), the public-private partnership that maintains the AT, urged hikers to postpone their plans indefinitely, followed by a declaration that it would not recognize hikes completed in 2020.

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?

[Sparky1776]

[Rebelbase]

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.

[Daffynition]

Katahdin is the only leg I need to finish for having hiked the AT in New England.

Sadly, my very bad knees will prevent me from ever finishing the AT [south]. Oh well.

[Envisioning]

For later....