‘I wish I had a crystal ball’: Parts of Appalachian Trail in limbo following Hurricane Helene

‘I wish I had a crystal ball’: Parts of Appalachian Trail in limbo following Hurricane Helene

[tomt]

The entire economy of this town is based on these trails. I sincerely hope the powers that be jump on both trails asap and save not only this town, but the trails that are so near and dear to so many of our hearts!

[ricks-excellentadventure]

I can’t believe she left her office to see the trail she manages.

[rodneycaupp]

WERE THERE HIKERS MISSING AFTER A NIGHT LIKE THEY WOULD HAVE HAD ON THOSE TRAILS. I was in an intense storm on top spruce Knob in W Va, and it doesn't get warm and dry after your in something like that. I lost the trail and got lost. At one point I fell and did a flip landing on the top of my backpack. I nearly rolled over a high cliff. Later that day, at the bottom, I found my car where I had left it, stuck in bottom clay. Then a darn Jeep came by and recued me for 20 bucks. I stopped at the first bar headed west for Dayton Ohio. for Hydration and to take it all in, just one day in a hellish Mountain storm

[jackscruggs]

I think hiking paths are the least of their concerns. DA

[coffeemountain]

This lady has no idea what regular folks are capable of when they want to accomplish a goal. Don’t wait for a government entity to fix this. Let the volunteer trail crews get at it & I’ll wager the trail will be open through there for the 2025 thru hiking season. And I laugh at the idea that just because a bureaucrat says a forest is ‘closed’ that you can’t hike through it. Honey, it is not their’s to close…it belongs to the American people.