i'll let y'all know when she comes through damascus
Bill makes sense.
One poster shared what town she passed through the day prior.
That's not right.
No one's ****ing business to post where a stranger is out on the trail-- especially a woman in near real time.
Fkt's are only peer judged bragging rights
Sorry to say, once you initiate something like that, there is little anonymity
While publishing someones whereabouts is wrong under normal circumstances, its virtually guaranteed to happen with a high profile undertaking. Anyone expecting otherwise is foolish. I wouldnt do it, but i would expect it to happen. Too many people on the trail for it not to appear in blogs, trail journals, facebook, and even whiteblaze.
the especially a woman angle to this really bugs me. if some guy with ill intentions wants to harm a solo female hiker he doesnt need information from the itnernet, he needs only go stand by the trail and wait a few hours, at most, until one happens along.Originally Posted by rickb
or do we really think this particular female hiker may have a stalker? thats fantasy land stuff. and even if true, a person that un balanced might just try and comb the whole trail looking for her, no? wouldnt be especially hard. if i wanted to find her and could dedicate myself fully to the quest i need only pick a spot, lets say in CT somewhere, and strart walking norht til i find her
No need to walk. Just to wait.
the AT is safer than detroit at midnight. everyone
on this site says so.
Here you go:
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For sure when someone is 6 ' , 180 lbs, male, and resembles and smells like a destitute homeless person.
44 days 14 hrs 16min
work backwards
So. Not into records for hiking yawn really hiking is personal
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That assumption may be why some think they have the right to post the whereabouts of a stranger in near real time on the Internet, even though that stranger has elected not to do so herself.
As an aside, the 8-page article in the September issues of Outside Magazine recounting the murder of 2 southboundears in 1990 makes mention of their how their killer was caught thanks to the freelance efforts of your friends, Lone Wolf. Though your friends names were not mentioned and they are largely unknown, they were true heroes. I will send try you some screen shots of the article by PM.
You can satisfy your curiosity direct from the source-
http://matthewkirk.blogspot.com/2015...ight-free.html
For those who were not around or with failing memory, we had this discussion once or twice already:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...n-a-Speed-hike
Specifically the conversation started because people were intentionally posting real time updates of a hiker who intentionally delayed their location. Even when a personal friend of that hiker logged in to ask that it stop.
From that thread, posted by SLY:
It's a trail community!
What's was stopping Matt or Jen or anyone that wants their privacy on hike from SAYING so? How difficult would it be to add a simple disclosure to their blog. "In order not to be overwhelmed with well wishers during my record attempt, I'm going to delay my blog entries. Please respect my wishes and if you happen to see me on the trail, don't give the time or my whereabouts, thank you and god bless"
Pasted from <http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php/97163-Privacy-on-a-Speed-hike/page6>
Prophetic.
Even if she didn't happen to read this thread she has almost word for word posted that message as suggested. But even in doing so folks here still want to debate that statement and it's intent?
That said, I agree with LW to an extent.
The only way to do it properly is to do a stealth hike. Ignore the FKT site and let the chips fall where they may.
seems she is on record pace!
lone wolf aint been 180 in decades
Kilograms?lone wolf aint been 180 in decades
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Since she's posting every now and then anyway, Anish would do better by her fans by posting her splits, albeit a day or two late.
So much for Baxter's plea of keeping the park free from commercialism.
Just saw where Anish posted this on her facebook page....Katahdin to New York in 3 weeks!!!
So, does that put her ahead of Matt's record or behind?
Per ATdist.com- Big K to Conn/NY line is 733.6.
733.6/21 days= 34.93 MPD
After 21 days on the trail Matt was at about 700 miles, his overall average was about 37.4 MPD.
Matt took an "extra" day in the whites to preserve his health which appears to have paid off.
Call the trail 2190 this year and her goal 58 days even and she needs a linear pace of 37.76MPD.
Rough numbers reported- I'd call her even with Matt.
Although that's 21 calendar days to be clear.
Which is 20 days of record...with the whole day zero deal.
To be fair to Matt, Calendar day 22, trip day 21... he was 735 miles in.
So by that count Anish would be a mile behind.
Either way... close enough to call it close enough.
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