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    Jim Colten
    BPL Member

    @jcolten

    Locale: MN

    This is not UL related so I wasn't sure if I should post here or in Chaff … so I flipped a coin.

    Long long ago on an internet far far away … there was a UseNet NewsGroup called rec.backcountry. During the summer of 1993 its readers were treated to a serial account of an AT thru hike by a hiker named Gerry Gladu, trailname moonshot.

    Moonshot wrote postcards every day or so and mailed them to a friend who posted them to rec.backcountry one at a time. It was almost like getting the postcards myself … and helped keep the spark of interest in backcountry travel alive in my heart.

    I recently found those postings on a website MoonShot's AT Hike

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    Sam Haraldson
    BPL Member

    @sharalds

    Locale: Gallatin Range

    rec.backcountry – when trail journals were actually written in a journal!

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    Steven Evans
    BPL Member

    @steve_evans

    Locale: Canada

    Totally cool..in '93, I was just finishing grade 9 and wondering when I would become an astronaut.

    Wish they had scanned the postcards – did they have scanners back then?

    Thanks for the link. :)

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    Jim Colten
    BPL Member

    @jcolten

    Locale: MN

    Wish they had scanned the postcards – did they have scanners back then?

    LOL …. they sure did, $$$$$$ though.

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