see the comment below on the WV Tourism Assoc. Has anyone heard of this? Jenny has outlined some national response, but maybe we want to do something like LTEs, op-eds? just a thought, best, paul
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenny Coyle Jenny.Coyle@sierraclub.org Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:33 PM Subject: Greetings Paul! I have a question... To: pjgrunt@gmail.com
Hey Paul --
Hope all is well for you there in the mountains. I'm doing well, though I had a little accident on my (non-motorized) kick scooter and broke my shoulder about a month ago. It's healing, but man, what a crazy thing to do! I hit some wet pavement and that was all she wrote. The morphine was nice, though.
So I'm not sure if you're in the loop on this, but apparently the WV Tourism Association sent out a letter to its members asking them to join a group that supports coal mining. We're doing something in our Climate Crossroads online community, about ten things that really do help tourism in WV, 'cause MTR certainly doesn't.
One of those ten things will be great hiking trails. And we'll link to our Sierra Club Trails website, to the page that gives you search results for trails in WV. That URL is here: http://tiny.cc/WVtrails
If you click on that link, you'll see that there are seven trails, and four of them are pretty good. Three of them, however - the three with the boring green Trails avatars instead of photos, need to be upgraded with a photo and an actual trail description.
Is there any chance you know these trails well enough to do that? Or even provide me with a few paragraphs and photos to do that? Or even do it over the phone and email me the photos?
I'm also looking to get some more trails added.
I know you're god-awful busy and dedicated to the work of your chapter and all -- but any chance you'd have time to do this? I'm trying to make it happen by week's end...
Best, Jenny __________ Jenny Coyle Website Producer Sierra Club (415) 977-5533 --> Check out Sierra Club Trails: http://sierraclubtrails.org