News of Adkins' Hike Starting

Now it's on WDBJ-7 television in Roanoke, Virginia's web site since about 13 March -- taken, they say, from an Associated Press story in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.com. Here it's headlined "Notable Hiker Ready to Take the Fifth."

It's the story about Leonard and Laurie Adkins stepping off on their fifth Appalachian Trail thru-hike. Well ... his fifth. Her fourth. Their dog's second.

I don't remember this closing, though, from the earlier versions of this story: "He is presently an Appalachian Trail Natural Heritage Monitor, aiding the A-T Conference and National Park Service in overseeing the welfare of rare and endangered plants."