MA AT Article in USA Today

[Rick]

Nice Article about hiking the trail in MA in Today's Travel Section.

USA Today Article

 

[masshysteria]

That's a good read, Rick. The Mass. section of the AT doesn't have the best views by any means, but it can't be beat this time of year for the color! I will never forget a couple of years ago I was staying the night at the October Mountain Shelter. It was just a little campout in the backyard. I spent the evening talking with a man and woman from Colorado. They came to the Berkshires to see the foliage, which they described as outstanding. I questioned their reasoning for leaving Colorado to see foliage. They told me about the lack of color in the western woods in the fall. That made home seem a little more precious.

It is a lot of fun to talk with the thru hikers at the Cumbys in Dalton, as they talk of their trials, and their first chance to eat an ice cream in a long time. Ah to be young and have the time to do the AT!

 

[alpinista]

Wahoo! I'm so stoked USA Today picked this up. This was an assignment I gave to our Springfield correspondent -- and he was just stoked to get to be camping/hiking out in the woods for several days and get paid for it to boot!

If anyone else sees the piece in another newspaper, I'd love to hear about it.

 

[masshysteria]

Alpinista, your article made the front page of today's Berkshire Eagle, with a complimentary article about a rash of recent hiking injuries in the Berkshires. Most prominent was about a 100 ft. fall a woman from Arizona took off of Monument Mnt.. She's in critical condition, sad to say!