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Re: [at-l] Dehydrators, Peggy of Roanoke, and approach to Springer

David,

The guy to talk to about "Peggy" is Homer Witcher, an AT maintainer with
the Roanoke AT club and a shuttle provider who lives in Daleville. I forget
his phone number, but he's in the book. He's been involved with several
efforts to get her out of the trail shelter and into a homeless shelter,
but she keeps coming back. He has helped her down from the shelter,
carrying her gear (which she accumulates gradually until it's more than she
can lug, but which she won't abandon) on some days when it looked like
life-threatening cold snaps were due in the area. No one really knows what
to do, I suspect.

Robert

.>I got my dehydrator at Service Merchandise,  38.00 plus some extra trays.
> Makes
>great Jerky!!  I think Walmart or K-Mart has them also.  Mine is a Mr. Coffee
>brand,  go figure?!?,  so you should be able to get one at a store that
>carries this brand.  They could order one if they don't stock it.
>
>I went out Friday morning to Bearwallow Gap,  just south of Peaks of Otter
>near Roanoke and hiked to Fullhardt Knob for the night.  Peggy was staying in
>the shelter and had been for several months.  She is very nice,  but has a
>screw loose.
>What do Larry Flynt,  Prince Edward,  The Czar and Czaress of Russia have in
>common?-  I don't know but Peggy does!  Does anyone have any info on this
>interesting lady who has been  habitating this part of the trail for several
>years?  Anyway,  I left Peggy and hiked down to Troutville,  met my brother
>and
>we hiked up to Lamberts Meadow and down the Andy Layne Trail to my car.  What
>a long, but,  beautiful two days.
>
>As for those who are starting out,  I could see any other way to begin the
>long
>walk but the approach trail from the Amicola Falls.  But hey,  I not starting
>out on the long walk, am I.
>
>Regards,
>
>David Craft
>Greensboro,  NC
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