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• W590938876 abstract "This is a paper about preserving the unique experience of a hike on the Appalachian Trail as we hike into a crowded 21st century. Its title derives from a popular backpacking mantra, one I heard nearly every day on my 2006 thru-hike: Your Own Hike (HYOH). How can you HYOH when there are simply so many others it with you? Or when you're sharing a campsite with 50 other people? How can you HYOH on a trail so badly eroded that it's three full feet below the lay of the land? When the trailside is so full of invasive plants they form a two-mile corridor of monoculture? These questions and others led me to the feeling that I wasn't the hike intended by Benton MacKaye when he first envisioned a long trail up the east coast. In 1921, MacKaye, a land-use planner, dreamed of a wilderness trail that would provide disillusioned city-dwellers with a little rejuvenation. For the most part, the AT still achieves this, but occasionally it falls short. Invasive species threaten the integrity of the forest ecosystem, development along the trail wipes out natural settings, and pollution produces hazy, steamed-glass views from the southern mountains. It is absolutely not my intention to de-emphasize these larger-scale problems, which can all damage the wilderness value of a hike on the AT (not to mention the value of the ecosystem in general), though they fall outside the scope of this paper. Comments Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Environmental Studies 2007. This thesis or dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/mes_capstones/16 Benton MacKaye's Hike Expanding the Appalachian Trail Experience Julia DeGagne May 2007 Master of Environmental Studies Capstone Project Department of Earth and Environmental Studies University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Sarah Willig juliadegagne@gmail.com Introduction: New Steps for the Appalachian Trail 3 1. Background 5 The Lure of the Appalachian Trail 5 Why We Hike 8 The AT Community 11 2. The More the Merrier: Why Some Use Reduction Strategies Can't Work 14 Use Limits 15 The Social AT Hiker 18 Fees 20 Conclusion 22 3. Up a Slippery Slope: How To Build a Trail for the Masses 23 Building a Trailway for Heavy Use 23 Accommodating Overnight Crowds 25 Lowering Impacts through Education 30 Lowering Impacts through Regulation 32 Conclusion 34 4. More Trails for Wilderness and Solitude: The New Eastern Trails System 36 Discouraging or Staggering Use 36 Expanding Use to Other Trails 39 Conclusion 44 Notes 47 Introduction: New Steps for the Appalachian Trail This is a paper about preserving the unique experience of a hike on the Appalachian Trail as we hike into a crowded 21st century. Its title derives from a popular backpacking mantra, one I heard nearly every day on my 2006 thru-hike: Your Own Hike. HYOH (for short) reminds us to confidently make our own choices about gear, pace, and town visits – and to respect the choices of others. No one is supposed to feel bad about carrying a 50-pound backpack and walking five miles a day, or carrying a 10-pound pack and walking 30 miles a day, or anything in between. No one is supposed to poke fun of anyone else's habit of spending five nights in a hotel for every week on the trail, or goad another hiker into spending more time at the local bar than he intends to. Even if a guy is pirouetting down the trail in a bathrobe, brandishing a six-foot staff made of PVC pipe and carrying a weeks' worth of drinking water in 5-pound tin cans, he's entitled. He might even be respected for it – He's really hiking his own hike, in the face of all the contrary advice he must have received. By the time I completed my thru-hike, I'd seen enough different styles to get a pretty good sense of what HYOH means (though I must confess there were times I was so tired, I was wishing someone would hike my hike for me for awhile). As much as individuality is revered and encouraged on the trail, the AT experience is inevitably a shared one. There are practical limits to the HYOH tradition. For example, it's a violation of trail etiquette to make too much noise late at night, to travel in a large group, or to smoke in a shelter. Then there are trail ethics. LNT is another hiker oftinvoked trail acronym: it stands for Leave No Trace, a philosophy of low-impact wilderness travel practices. So, if your idea of your own hike is to leave trash or food strewn about a campsite, cut down saplings, or allow your dog to bathe in the spring, you might witness other hikers all their own hikes – as far away from yours as possible. While these socially imposed limits can safeguard the trail experience, sometimes the sociability factor limits a hiker's enjoyment of the trail. How can you HYOH when there are simply so many others it with you? Or when you're sharing a campsite with 50 other people? How can you HYOH on a trail so badly eroded that it's three full feet below the lay of the land? When the trailside is so full of invasive plants they form a two-mile corridor of monoculture? These questions and others led me to the feeling that I wasn't the hike intended by Benton MacKaye when he first envisioned a long trail up the east coast. In 1921, MacKaye, a land-use planner, dreamed of a wilderness trail that would provide disillusioned city-dwellers with a little rejuvenation. For the most part, the AT still achieves this, but occasionally it falls short. Invasive species threaten the integrity of the forest ecosystem, development along the trail wipes out natural settings, and pollution produces hazy, steamed-glass views from the southern mountains. It is absolutely not my intention to de-emphasize these larger-scale problems, which can all damage the DeGagne, Julia. Hiking Benton MacKaye's Hike: Introduction wilderness value of a hike on the AT (not to mention the value of the ecosystem in general), though they fall outside the scope of this paper. I am concerned with another issue that can detract from the wilderness experience, one which seems not to have yet penetrated the management plans of those in charge. The following pages are concerned with the amount of use seen by the AT, and whether or not it's too much. If overuse does become a problem, are there any feasible solutions that would be in keeping with the identity of the AT? Can we take advantage of our country's growing interest in wilderness recreation, instead of waiting for it to overwhelm the resources we already have? This paper takes an admittedly optimistic view of the AT and the possibilities for a larger system of long-distance trails in the eastern US. But as someone who's been there lately and experienced the strength of the AT community, I believe a little optimism doesn't seem altogether unwarranted." @default.
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