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@@ -7917,6 +7917,53 @@ Dream on.
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Post 37 of #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/
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*** Outdoors :outdoors:
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+**** PUBLISHED Hikers, Volunteers, Hard Work and Relationships :snark:
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+ :PROPERTIES:
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+ :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 2023-03-11
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+ :EXPORT_HUGO_PUBLISHDATE: 2023-03-11:
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+ :END:
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+# The short story ..
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+# #+caption: [[https://FOO.COM/BAR/BAZ.JPG]["Name of work" by WHO is licensed under cc by 2.0]]
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+# #+attr_html: :width 200px
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+# [[file:images/BAZ.JPG]]
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+In your "Presidents Log Book Entry" [[https://www.patc.net/docs/PATC/Newsletters/2023/PA_2023_03.pdf][article in the monthly newsletter]], you
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+talked about the need for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC)
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+to build its "brand identity" to reach our target "consumers". About
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+that...
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+#+hugo: more
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+I'm involved in PATC as a trail maintainer and an avid hiker with 1700
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+miles of an AT Section hike over 14 years. I'm in it to meet the likes
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+of Tom Johnson, one of your predecessors as PATC president. I ran into
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+him once in the middle of a long day-hike, corresponded a bit and devoured
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+the copy of the [[https://www.patc.net/docs/About%20PATC/History-PATC-14Aug2020byTomJohnson.pdf][history of the PATC]] which he wrote and sent to me shortly
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+before he passed on while leading a hike. I'm in it to work with
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+Jon & Katherine Rindt, Mosby district supervisors. I admire their non-ceasing
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+selfless work to clear 100s of blow downs, corral the cats (volunteers
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+like me), fix signage, work with the county/state/parks to get parking
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+lots fixed, etc. I'm in it to take trail maintenance classes from the
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+likes of Robert Fina and to, again, admire the dedication, learning
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+and investment of time and resources he puts into it. I do my little
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+bit, but there are giants out there. I'm in it to take walks with my
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+family, to meet casual hikers and to talk to the steady stream of thru-hikers
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+who are on a mission. I'm in it drag my daughter-in-law, a professional
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+ornithologist, out with me to do maintenance and to be amazed as she
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+identifies 30+ in species of birds around us on one outing without
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+even seeing most of them. She then put together a display about the
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+birds that is in the display case at the Tucker Lane parking lot (thanks
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+to Jon, too).
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+So, yeah, brand identity. I'd welcome the chance to get to know you
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+and to talk to you about it, one-on-one. I could use some help cleaning
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+out water bars and weed-wacking my section once the vegetation gets
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+going later this spring. Let me know if you'd like to help.
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+#48 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, https://100daystooffload.com/
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**** PUBLISHED Spring Creeping Up The Mountain :100DaysToOffload:
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