Authorities looking for a Appalachian Trail hiker

[TOW]

You can go to photo's here and type in his name on the search engine and you will see several pics of him........

[TOW]

ATC provides information on their website regarding how to go about contacting law enforcement authorities. I believe it was recently linked here by lauriep. This might be an appropriate time to relink it. Someone else may have more time to devote to locating this information than I do right now.

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=45096

[OldStormcrow]

yeah, but is he hanging around the trail now? and if so, where?

Well, I suppose if anybody knew the answer to that they would have arrested him already, thus rendering this thread moot.....

[saimyoji]

I may be wrong, and don't have the time to go searching for the thread, but didn't Jack Tarlin mention something about this guy a little while ago? Maybe Jack knows something he could help the rangers out with.

[Jack Tarlin]

No, I most certainly did NOT mention anything about this guy earlier. I made one comment that I didn't like to see anonymous rumors posted about other hikers. On the other hand, if folks have legitimate concerns, they should be passed on to the correct authorities, either to the ATC or to the law enforcement people in charge of safety on the Trail.

Sometimes, Trail rumors and scuttlebutt have some truth to them. But often, they don't. If one has legitimate concerns about a hiker, especially if they feel that public safety is threatened, then they should by all means report this. But anonymous Internet posts about people, or implying that so-and-so is a scumbag, or so and so is a douche, or whatever the case may be, well this is kind of distastful. If one wants to report criminal activity but one doesn't want to do it publicly or one doesn't want to be associated with the announcement, fine. Then bring your concerns to the correct person and correct place. But to publicly slag folks on the Internet under pseudonyms is generally not the best way to go.

[saimyoji]

Sorry, Jack...I must have confused you with someone else.

[Big Oz]

Can anyone post a picture of him?

Here is a picture of Crutch on the right.

[yaduck9]

No, I most certainly did NOT mention anything about this guy earlier. I made one comment that I didn't like to see anonymous rumors posted about other hikers. On the other hand, if folks have legitimate concerns, they should be passed on to the correct authorities, either to the ATC or to the law enforcement people in charge of safety on the Trail.

Sometimes, Trail rumors and scuttlebutt have some truth to them. But often, they don't. If one has legitimate concerns about a hiker, especially if they feel that public safety is threatened, then they should by all means report this. But anonymous Internet posts about people, or implying that so-and-so is a scumbag, or so and so is a douche, or whatever the case may be, well this is kind of distastful. If one wants to report criminal activity but one doesn't want to do it publicly or one doesn't want to be associated with the announcement, fine. Then bring your concerns to the correct person and correct place. But to publicly slag folks on the Internet under pseudonyms is generally not the best way to go.

Well said.....