Several newspapers (the Rocktown Weekly article by Dan Kipperman on 6 January 2007; the Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch, on 7 January, by Calvin Trice; the Culpeper (VA) Star Exponent, Rhonda Simmons reporting on 6 January; and an unsigned 'Metro Brief' in the 6 January Washington (DC) Times) all reported on the 4 day search for a Warrenton, VA man who parked at Thornton Gap along the Skyline Drive -- where the AT crosses the SD and Route 211 -- and more or less promptly disappeared. Some 50 searchers, with dogs and helicopters, went looking for him as he hiked south for two days, left the Shenandoah National Park at Route 33 in Swift Run Gap (34.6 AT miles distance), walked west to Elkton, VA, and then "yellow-blazed" to Madison, WV where he got in touch with his wife.
Somehow or other, the reports say, he found out he was being searched for and responded by hiding during the day and hiking at night.
There was a full moon in the middle of the time he was "missing."
Monday, January 08, 2007
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