Appalachian Trail embezzler lived in Lexington, maybe killed his wife there
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The thing about the longform story I linked that is most interesting is this whole unknown (to me) culture of apparently thousands upon thousands of people who hike part or all of the Appalachian Trail, from south Georgia up to Maine every spring-summer-fall. Might look into that sometime in the future, see what it is all about that it attracts so many diehards.
A friend of mine got frostbite on the Appalachian trail and had to be rescued. He has done some gnarly hikes over the years.
Where he was living in Damascus isn't too far from us, and the local paper had a big story on it. Damascus is on the Virginia Creeper Trail bike path which crosses the Appalachian Trail and Damascus is a popular resting point for hikers. We've been on the trail countless times over the years, and you see a ton of hikers. Who knows, we might have even passed by this guy before. As for hiking the trail, we've never done it and probably won't due to my wife having arthritis in her knees, but a buddy of mine at work has hiked the entire trail over the years, diffeent parts at a time. He's retiring in a couple of years and says that hiking the AT end to end at one time is at the top of his list of things to do.
His daughter was in mine and swimmer's med school class, felt so bad for her when this went down. She (very reasonably) took some time off; much respect to her for going back and finishing up.
Craaaaaaaaaazy story.
Craaaaaaaaaazy story.
You're in Wytheville? You ever ride the New River Trail? I highly recommend that. We usually start at the low water bridge at Fries and ride North, or go up to Foster Falls State Park just off of where I-77 crosses the New River just by the Shot Tower and ride in either direction.
A group of us, maybe 5 or 6, start up on to the trail around one of the dams in NC. We've planned on doing 8 to 10 miles a day after getting onto the trail. Maybe 12. Young and ambitious. Clingman's Dome is part of the trek. Sometime in April.
We get going too late in the day to elevate to the shelter before dark. Slow drizzle. Everyone is hurting. As we gain elevation the drizzle turns into snow and there is a lot of snow still on the trail. One guy says he can't keep going with his pack on so he leaves it for one of us to retrieve after attaining the shelter. We eat a small bit before crashing.
Next morning everyone is refreshed and ready to go after a big breakfast, especially the guy who had to have his pack retrieved. We get maybe two miles out on the trail which is now essentially flat compared to what we did the night before and slackass decides he can't go on. He lays down in the snow and tells us to just go on without him. Like it's war and he's sacrificing himself for the good of the group.
I'm laughing to myself because we just got passed by a boy scout troop who were in effing BLUE JEANS!
We sit and rest awhile and decide not to abandon him and reroute down the mountain and stay 2 or 3 days beside a stream. Still pissed.
We get going too late in the day to elevate to the shelter before dark. Slow drizzle. Everyone is hurting. As we gain elevation the drizzle turns into snow and there is a lot of snow still on the trail. One guy says he can't keep going with his pack on so he leaves it for one of us to retrieve after attaining the shelter. We eat a small bit before crashing.
Next morning everyone is refreshed and ready to go after a big breakfast, especially the guy who had to have his pack retrieved. We get maybe two miles out on the trail which is now essentially flat compared to what we did the night before and slackass decides he can't go on. He lays down in the snow and tells us to just go on without him. Like it's war and he's sacrificing himself for the good of the group.
I'm laughing to myself because we just got passed by a boy scout troop who were in effing BLUE JEANS!
We sit and rest awhile and decide not to abandon him and reroute down the mountain and stay 2 or 3 days beside a stream. Still pissed.
@JDHoss oh yea many a time. My girlfriend has been training for a half marathon and runs there because it is flat. Good fishing and camping through there. But the summer it gets crazy shallow through there, at foster falls anyway. Big group of us went tubing one Saturday and did more walking than tubing haha.