Librarian McCormick Hiking or Not

The Williamsport (PA) Sun-Gazette's magic disappearing news stories archive has swallowed up another article. On about 18 or 19 June, the newspaper had an article by Heather Gach titled "Making the trek: Students hike part of Appalachian Trail with teacher" that sounds like it would have been a nice read. It includes this snippet: "Dianne McCormick, Montgomery Elementary School's librarian, hopes to hike the entire Appalachian Trail". Unfortunately the 14-day expiration period in the newspaper's "archive" makes it really hard to learn what the rest of the story is. Is she hiking? Were the kids 'virtually hiking' by following blog postings? Hard to tell. I did some looking around on the web and didn't get any conclusive evidence either way. I did find one of McCormick's posts to an online journal saying that her students had been "following" the hiker's progress and were excited he/she had gotten to some milestone.