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May 27, 2009 at 7:43 am #1236581
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
May 27, 2009 at 7:49 am #1503859rec.backcountry – when trail journals were actually written in a journal!
May 27, 2009 at 9:48 am #1503878Totally 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. :)
May 27, 2009 at 10:29 am #1503882Wish they had scanned the postcards – did they have scanners back then?
LOL …. they sure did, $$$$$$ though.
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