[pct-l] Rescuers Robbed at Gunpoint

[Sabrina Harrison]

The guy posted on the class of 2017 page before all the news article started appearing. He was pretty shaken up about it and a couple of trolls got ahold of him criticizing him for the situation. According to him, they miscalculated and ran out of water. Yes I think he is attempting a through hike. 

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> On Jul 11, 2017, at 1:02 AM, Town Food <pctl at marcusschwartz.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".
>> 
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