Hikers Info - Appalachian Trail

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#1

A good information web site for hikers getting ready to start their AT hikes is www.fred.net/kathy/at.html.Good luck and hiking to everyone starting this year.

Bill Harris

#2

This was sent to me and I thought I would pass it along. It may be old news.

…FYI - From the GATC emailing list

We did it!! Thanks to about 60(!!) amazing GATC trailworkers who turned out for a January worktrip despite some “iffy” weather, we were able to open the new section of A.T. above Slaughter Spring. Both the A.T. and the Slaughter Creek trail coming up from Lake Winfield Scott now completely by-pass Slaughter Gap. By opening this up prior to the spring thru-hiker rush, we hope to begin the process of allowing Slaughter Gap to revegetate.

The new tent pad area along the relocated A.T. will provide an alternative to camping in Slaughter Gap. As we left yesterday, a group of Scouts was in the process of setting up camp in the new area. Please help pass the word about these changes.

A big THANKS to all the workers who helped make it possible to make the transition to the new trail system yesterday. There was a LOT to do to make it all happen in a single day.

onetrackmind

#3

Slaughter Spring? Slaughter Creek? Slaughter Gap?

Any changes that keep me out of the slaughter ‘region’ can be considered improvments. But congrats to all of you guys and gals that helped with this.

3D

#4

Slaughter is a histoical reference to a battle between the Creeks and Cherokees, that made the mountain “run red with blood”, hence the name blood mt. i can’t remember why they were fighting. Does anyone know?

Tha Wookie

#5

wookie, i asked the question at neels gap… seems to the historians that the battle involved territorial rights to hunting lands.

now, that may be something they studied, so I wouldn’t think it wrong, but when I hiked thru there, as you know, it was such a mystical majical place, I invisioned much more than hunting rights as a means to spur a massacre.

There is a book they sell at walasi-yi that tells this story. The guys at the outfitter suggested it for reading, but it weighs something like 12 pounds. Not something you would hike with, but make an interesting table book.

My vision is more like a political/social struggle between the 2 tribes that built up over years that eventually lead to the conflict. The hunting grounds could have played a part, but it is my guess, purely conjecture, that like all peoples who disagree to the point of war, the factors that are involved in the legend of Blood Mountain are much more complex than simply someone shot someone else’s deer.

burn

#6

I thought is was a bunch of NOBOs and SOBOs getting it on…LOL

John

papa john

#7

Is the relo before Slaughter? After the shelter Blue blaze? I cant seemed to picture where it is.

Chef

#8

Chef,

This was posted by Veteran on Whiteblaze:

The Appalachian Trail was relocated to bypass Slaughter Gap, near Blood Mountain.

For more info go to:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~stew…elocations.html

Groucho

#9

That didn’t work. Copy and paste this?

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~stewartholt/AT/Georgia_AT_Relocations.html

Groucho

#10

Ok now I understand. It looks like it leaves the AT before the water that was .4 from slaughter gap. But my question was answered. There is water near the new tenting location.

Chef

#11

Papa John,I liked your take on the subject alot better.Let’s have some humor out there on the trail this year.:lol

Bill Harris