Mooning the cog

[severine]

Originally Posted by MichaelJ

The hikers are generally mooning the cog because it's a nasty, disgusting polluter belching enormous black clouds of coal smoke into the ski. It has since also become AT through-hiker tradition.

The cog has been building a new engine that's, I believe, biodiesel-fueled, so hopefully once that's in service they can copy it and get all the coal engines off the tracks. But it's still going to take time and until then, there will be sideways-smiling protesters.

It's a fairly dirty affair to ride it, too. We went on it on our honeymoon and I was covered in soot afterwards.

[JimG.]

Originally Posted by Skier75

I can't believe that's a Federal offense! Man talk about uptight, like that should be a Federal offense! Just because it on National Forest Land? What's next?

I think it's pretty funny, that's a tradition on Peaks Island in Maine. When the Ferry boat leaves the dock, there's always a bunch of kids standing on the pylons near the dock, saluting the Ferry as it leaves.

Heh!

Perhaps it offends the moose. Or the trees.

[tjd]

A friends website says it all... http://moonthecog.org/