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[at-l] re: kindness of strangers...

ginny wrote:

>>>  man hiking and hitchhiking the trail - begging food off the thruhikers -
he received little sympathy because it was felt he was taking advantage
of our generosity. Also he was not a cute kid, but an adult who had made
choices that led him out there. He was not part of the community in the
same way that the other was, so got a lot less help.   <<<

was this in 92 ginny?  i think i know who you are refering to.  i can see
him in my mind, but can't remember his name.  fitzsimmons or something was
his real name, but he had a trail name too.

i first met him at muskrat creek shelter, in below freezing weather.  he
didn't have much food left.  i gave him some, he was a thru hiker, right?
he blue blazed to rainbow springs, where i saw him 2 days later.  then he
hitched to fontana dam.  by then, everyone i knew that had met him was
irked at his freeloading and begging.  he made it back up to front royal, i
think, where he lived.  same guy?  sure sounds like it...


mike
ke kaahawe   AT92 TYT94 PCT2000
mikeh@royalrobbins.com
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