[at-l] dangerous encounters

[foshione@dteenergy.com (Elizabeth A. Foshion)]

I'm curious about who else has had iffy encounters with people while hiking.

I was solo hiking the Lone Star Trail  a few years back and had a couple of good ol boys stalk me for a couple of days. It was unnerving, but I bailed off the trail (another reason to always have maps) and jumped 30 miles uptrail to avoid them, so no grief.

Who else has stories. What worked for you.

Squirrelgirl

at-l-request@mailman.backcountry.net wrote:

> We spent 4 years prepping for the CDT.  Two weeks after starting we had an
> "encounter" - if we'd had a gun, it likely would have been the end of the
> thruhike and a waste of those 4 years.  Since we didn't have one, we
> bluffed, bought 15 minutes of time and played hide and seek for two days.
> Irritated the hell out of me - not my style.  But we finished the thruhike
> ----- and didn't have to explain to the local sheriff why that cowboy and
> his friends were dead.  Or alternatively, why they were having to dig lead
> out of my hide - or plant me.

> Walk softly,
> Jim