AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

You probably don't even realize how partisan your post is. Spilt waste from the AMC, no problem, the Cog, plant killers.

Not the way that I read Old Eric’s post, in which he seems to place the AMC huts, Cog, and AR on a par for concentrating and disposing of human waste in the alpine.

 

[sierra]

Not the way that I read Old Eric’s post, in which he seems to place the AMC huts, Cog, and AR on a par for concentrating and disposing of human waste in the alpine.

He clearly states that without the Cog flowers would be growing in place of the tracks, hence the Cog is a bad thing. While he sings the praise of the AMCs capacity to consolidate human waste. You really can't see that in his post?

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

He clearly states that without the Cog flowers would be growing in place of the tracks, hence the Cog is a bad thing. While he sings the praise of the AMCs capacity to consolidate human waste. You really can't see that in his post?

I read that Old Eric was implying that without the Cog and AR concentrating human waste at the summit, the waste would be all over the summit cone, which would impact the alpine vegetation in a negative way, like if the huts were not there to concentrate and remove human waste. But it appears that the post has been removed, so unless Old Eric provides more specifics, we are stuck with different interpretations.

 

[helmethiker]

Before I wade in to something too deep for my boots, let me repeat a universally known truth: When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Actually as a day hiker I wait until the next available "rest stop". These are much more frequent in the Adirondacks than the Whites, and it can be annoying when you get to the bottom of the Monadnock Old Toll Road and find that the portajohn rest stop has been removed for the season, but the gas station is not that far away and I can dispose of solids and fill up on fluids there. While I carry TP etc. with me, I do not believe I have ever used it in the woods other than at and in a privy. Whether this record and attitude can be maintained on the 18 mile round trip hike to Mt Allen remains to be seen. I am pretty sure that there are rest stops near Redfield and Cliff, and I was OK on Seymour, Donaldson and Emmons so Seward should also be OK. And that would complete the NE 115.

 

[helmethiker]

I read that Old Eric was implying that without the Cog and AR concentrating human waste at the summit, the waste would be all over the summit cone, which would impact the alpine vegetation in a negative way, like if the huts were not there to concentrate and remove human waste. But it appears that the post has been removed, so unless Old Eric provides more specifics, we are stuck with different interpretations.

OldEric's post is still there in "section 2" of this thread. A relative long way back.

 

[JoshandBaron]

He clearly states that without the Cog flowers would be growing in place of the tracks, hence the Cog is a bad thing. While he sings the praise of the AMCs capacity to consolidate human waste. You really can't see that in his post?

He doesn't say that at all. The Cog is on the other side of the mountain from the alpine garden and the quotes around flowers is a clear reference to toilet paper.

 

[Lone Stranger]

He clearly states that without the Cog flowers would be growing in place of the tracks, hence the Cog is a bad thing. While he sings the praise of the AMCs capacity to consolidate human waste. You really can't see that in his post?

You have grossly misinterpreted his words. Is that intentional?

 

[Daniel Eagan]

While I realize that the landscapes are different, and there are other mitigating factors, the hut experience in Europe is markedly better than in the Whites. It may be because huts in the Alps are privately owned, which means there is actual competition for hikers. The result: showers, saunas, microbreweries, gourmet food, private rooms—all at a fraction of what the AMC charges.

 

[KRooney]

While I realize that the landscapes are different, and there are other mitigating factors, the hut experience in Europe is markedly better than in the Whites. It may be because huts in the Alps are privately owned, which means there is actual competition for hikers. The result: showers, saunas, microbreweries, gourmet food, private rooms—all at a fraction of what the AMC charges.

I agree. I'm especially partial to the Dolomites.

 

[OldEric]

You probably don't even realize how partisan your post is. Spilt waste from the AMC, no problem, the Cog, plant killers.

That's an odd conclusion. I am lumping the huts, the cog, the autoroad and the summit buildings into the same bucket. They are all things that the purists tend to object to an all things that provide some facilities for handling human waste (the autoroad indirectly). My conjecture was that without those things there would be more poop etc scattered about. But maybe not.

And partisan doesn't mean what you think it does.