[pct-l] Ultralight Disappearing Act (for 12 years!)

[GARY HEBERT]

came across this on another listserve...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Roleigh Martin <marti124 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/682
>  Ultralight Disappearing Act <http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/682>
>
> German woman missing for 12 years found ultralight camping in Swiss woods
> Feel like disappearing and not being found? Becoming an ultralight expert
> might not hurt: A German woman missing for over 12 years was finally
> discovered living in the
> woods<
> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gwUTZEw_hs915aO-onKKtz-k0h4AD95QD1EG0
> >near
> Bern, Switzerland. Using nothing more than a tarp and an umbrella,
> she'd been camping there for over a year and seemed in good health.
>
> The 52-year-old woman managed to go so leave-no-trace that the ranger who
> patrols the area hadn't ever discovered her; finally, a hiker in the region
> saw her and reported her to authorities earlier this month. While she's
> still currently camping out in the woods, the owners of the public woods
> plan to eventually force her to leave. Authorities are trying to place her
> somewhere within the surrounding community.
>
> Police say she conversed lucidly and normally, but didn't want any contact
> with family, and apparently she "spoke of a mission that she had to
> fulfill."
>
> If her mission was to test her long-term, ultralight stealth-camping
> abilities, I'd say, 'mission accomplished, lady.'
>
> —Ted Alvarez
>
> German woman missing 12 years found in Swiss woods (AP)
>
>
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