[at-l] Hartford Advocate (CT) article on a thru-hike By Emily Weil

[Art Cloutman]

I sure hope it was fiction.  I did meet a young woman while I was 
hiking who had to escape from a group of guys that decided she 
belonged to them.  That they were going to protect her.  They 
expected her to do all kinds of camp/town chores in return.  She 
faked them out pretty nicely.  She told them that since she was a 
slower hiker she was leaving Damascus a few hours ahead of them 
expecting them to catch up within a day or two.  She may have camped 
a few miles to a day out of town then walked back to town on the 
Creeper trail.  She left encouraging note in the registers and a 
request to carry an item to her - I don't remember what it was. 
Anyway, it seemed to have worked.  For days after I read entries in 
registers from these guys wondering why they could not catch up to 
her.



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>In a message dated 8/26/2006 3:40:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>Snodrog5 at aol.com writes:
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>"A Hike  Of Her  Own"
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>Was that fiction? 
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Art Cloutman