[pct-l] Rescuers Robbed at Gunpoint

[Town Food]

IMO there are some important points here:

1. This didn't happen on the PCT.  It happened in an unnamed area 
somewhere near the PCT.
2. The area between Highway 58 and Kelso Valley Road is little-used 
scrubby desert.
3. The robbers told the victims "to immediately leave the area".

So, I'm guessing they happened to go into an area used for something 
illegal (e.g. unlicensed pot farm, meth lab, etc.), while hiking an area 
nobody normally hikes.  The operators hoped to chase them away from 
their illegal operation.

It reminds me a bit of a story a few years ago about my favorite local 
backpacking park, Henry Coe SP.  A bushwhacking hiker happened upon a 
pot farm and was shot at.  (Kind of similar terrain to that PCT section, 
too, coincidentally).

Incidentally, does anybody know what injured the hiker they were going 
in to rescue?  Something heat-related probably?  Was it a thru-hiker?

  -=Town Food

On 07/10/2017 09:43 PM, Luce Cruz wrote:
> (wonders when the "should I carry a gun on the trail" questions start again)
>
> The obvious answer is "no".
>