[at-l] Re: Mountain Laurel Designs

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 10:32 AM 3/12/2005 -0500, Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:
>tinman@antigravitygear.com writes:
>
> > Did he slack-pack most of the way?
>
>Who Ward?
>
>I wouldn't think so, as far as I know he was old school.  From what I
>understand his hike was unsupported.  Perhaps a better trail historian 
>than I knows
>the story.

Historian I am not. Prodigious reader is a more apt descriptive. Ward 
Leonard shows up frequently in AT literature but I have never encountered 
any details of his hikes, how he did them, when they were, etc. He's more 
of a semi-mythic trail character who shows up abruptly, almost 
frighteningly to some and then disappears down the trail just as abruptly. 
He is reputed to hike fast and far. His manner is reported to be odd and a 
bit confrontational. Does anyone know if he is still on the trail in recent 
years? If I *were* a historian I could tell you when he was last mentioned 
in a trail journal but I can only note that I don't remember him showing up 
in the most recent memoirs that I have read.