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08-17-2006, 15:18
I met a Southbounder in 98 or 99 in the shelter south of Humpback Rocks (labor day weekend) in Central VA. I will never forget him - he was the first ultralightweight hiker I ever met. He wore a kilt he made out of a bison belt and a piece of microfleece, had a scottish knife around his neck, had an anthropologicly (anthropology major...spoke of doing an ethnicity study on the Trail tribes) correct tattoo. He was the first ultralight hiker I saw: zip stove, slept under a space blanket on a sheet of tyvek or something like that. He had recently been discharged from the Army (10th Mountain Division). I would like to know what happened to him.

frequency
08-17-2006, 19:09
i checked the records - it was 1998. He spoke of meeting Earl Schaffer on the way down.