[pct-l] AT hiker set on fire in town

[Chris Anderson]

That is messed up beyond words... who would light a person on fire for being homeless?  Yet another reason I have no faith in most of humanity, and would rather spend my time in the wilderness.
 
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat!



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 From: "mkwart at gci.net" <mkwart at gci.net>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 8:28 PM
Subject: [pct-l] AT hiker set on fire in town
 
I ran across this story--the perpetrators thought the hiker was a 
homeless person, so threw gas on him and a match while he was walking in 
a re-supply town late at night. Pretty sad.....Although I would never 
walk around a strange town with my pack at 1 in the morning, though. I 
think people are more aware of hikers on the PCT because the towns are 
smaller the trail goes through. I try to educate people in Ashland how 
PCT hikers look--I believe Firefly the retired Old Station trail angel 
also included something on this topic when she was interviewed for a 
newspaper story a few years back.



http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/UPDATE-Hiker-set-on-fire-while-he-stops-to-get/W_oqco4kdkq85RJMtSKWvA.cspx#.UAC7pWBrR0A.facebook

--Fireweed
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