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Missing blind hiker found along Appalachian Trail

By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
May 3, 2009

A legally blind hiking magazine editor who went missing along the Appalachian Trail in Virginia was found Saturday after he set a small fire to attract rescuers.

Kenneth Knight, 41, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was found in the Snowden area near the James River, about nine miles from where he was last seen six days earlier. He was dehydrated and hungry but uninjured. Knight is an editor for Backpacking Light magazine and an experienced outdoorsman. He was hiking a 60-mile section with friends Sunday when he said he wasn’t feeling well and left the trail. No one had seen him since.



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Alen

Oct 28, 2009

The references I find in the Bible about helping the poor refer to the "orphan and the widow" within the community who could not, in those days, help themselves. You people who are so intent on open borders (Tell me again, how many of the 6.2 BILLION in the world do you want us to support in this country ?)need to write Sr.El Presidente de Mexico and tell him to use some of that oil money, Am. aid, drug money, etc. to provide schools, jobs, and health care for his people. I refuse to take on his responsibility. You open-border types feel so righteous about helping others, but I'd be willing to bet you have some problems in your personal relationships, which you can't handle - so, you "relate" to those far afield; it's so much easier.
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