American Hiking Society has made a deal with Higher Ground coffee to help pay for trail work in the Southeast United States.
This medium-bodied coffee carries a taste of wild berries and a subtle dark chocolate finish. Better yet, the coffee is certified Fair Trade, and since it’s shade grown, its songbird friendly!
Have to admire the marketing savvy of the folks at Higher Ground: somehow word has reached them that hikers and campers are among the coffee-drinkingest folks on the planet. The songbirds are thankful to finally get a break, but the young, disaffected ones are working on their protest ballads.
NOW we’re TALKIN’!!
The parks and trails are generally hurting for funds all over these United States, though it’s no small stretch to figure out why — the funds have been diverted to a generally-understood-to-be unjust war. It makes sense, then, that marketing and use fees combine to support the trail maintenance effort. For now.
Hiking and quaffing fine elixirs — kinda right up my alley.
Whineyhiker blames budgetary shortages on the Iraq War. sorry buddy, the FS and NPS have been chronicaly short because funds for field level employees kep getting cut, to pay for high priced and high level administrators and expensive and unnecessary headquarters buildings. Income generated by timber and cattle are almost non-existant. Backpackers, hikers and other tourists spend almost NOTHING on the back country, so there is no revenue for the mountains.
I have lived in the high country almost all my life. I know of what I speak.