[at-l] Earl Shaffer's hike questioned

[giniajim]

Since it was repeated in a generally reputable newspaper, someone should 
probably submit a straight-forward LTE in rebuttal.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Looper" <nightwalker.at at gmail.com>
To: <snodrog5 at gmail.com>
Cc: <daveh at psknet.com>; <at-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Earl Shaffer's hike questioned


> "Published on Whiteblaze" kind of says it all.
> On Jul 3, 2011 12:19 PM, "snodrog5 at gmail.com" <snodrog5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The research paper was posted on Whiteblaze.net. The author's tone, 
>> simply
>> put, is that if he can't prove a detail that happened six decades ago 
>> Earl
>> must've lied. Screw him, and the "research" he rode in on.
>>
>> Teej
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:53 AM, <carla_dave_hicks at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/291803
>>>
>>> "Did the man heralded as the first to walk the entire Appalachian Trail
>>> take a shortcut into history?A new report questions whether Earl Shaffer
>>> actually walked the trail's entire length.
>>> By Laurence Hammack
>>> 981-3239
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> Jim McNeely, a West Virginia lawyer and hiker who spent years 
>>> researching
>>> the epic hike, says Shaffer bypassed at least 170 miles of the trail --
>>> taking multiple shortcuts by walking on country roads and twice 
>>> accepting
>>> short rides in cars.
>>>
>>> "This is not nitpicking about someone leaving the trail to go around 
>>> some
>>> downed trees," McNeely said of his findings, detailed in a 158-page
> report
>>> he shared with The Roanoke Times.
>>> "I was looking for knowing, deliberate decisions to not walk the
>>> Appalachian Trail."
>>> ...."
>>>
>>>
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