Found Deceased ME - Gerry Largay, 66, Appalachian Trail, 21 July 2013

[terracotta]

This is heartbreaking. I was planning on going there for the weekend but do see that they are only looking for MASAR qualified people.

https://www.facebook.com/mainefishwildlife

A hiker who was in that location:

http://takeahike2013.blogspot.com/2013/07/day-19-stratton-to-spaulding-mountain.html

I hope they can get in contact with this hiker or that she can contact LE.

 

[Treelights]

This is heartbreaking. I was planning on going there for the weekend but do see that they are only looking for MASAR qualified people.

https://www.facebook.com/mainefishwildlife

A hiker who was in that location:

http://takeahike2013.blogspot.com/2013/07/day-19-stratton-to-spaulding-mountain.html

I hope they can get in contact with this hiker or that she can contact LE.

On this Hiker's Day 27 on her blog she posted a Missing Person's Poster of Gerry.
http://takeahike2013.blogspot.com/2013/07/day-27-grafton-notch-to-bull-branch.html
http://takeahike2013.blogspot.com/

 

[sophiebelle]

You can look at Trailjournals.com and click Appalachian to see some about this journey and what Gerry was facing on the trail. Crunchmaster has a entry in his journal about Gerry. He and his hike mates are the ones who saw her on the trail.

 

[Unscripted]

Maine wardens claim progress in search for missing hiker

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Maine-wardens-claim-progress-in-search-for-missing-hiker.html

"Cpl. John MacDonald said in an email today that wardens are no longer seeking the woman who called the Stratton Motel at 5 p.m. July 24, saying she and Inchworm, Largay's trail name, had both spent Tuesday night in the Spaulding Mountain lean-to."

 

[carbuff]

I notice there's a press conference scheduled for Sunday. Hopefully there's good news by then.

 

[angelmom]

This hiker's journal is a glimpse into what it's like to be there.

http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=428386


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[CatFancier]

Friends of missing Maine hiker helping with search

http://www.necn.com/08/03/13/Friend...nding_mobile.html?blockID=848399&feedID=11106

 

[Unscripted]

Still no sign of missing hiker in Maine

Updated 12:52pm EDT August 4, 2013

"After speaking with other hikers, the warden service has determined Largay never made it to the Spaulding Mountain lean-to, where she was supposed to spend the night July 22."

http://www.wmtw.com/news/maine/appa...21171120/-/imrto8z/-/index.html#ixzz2b2OHDTo7

 

[angelmom]

Heartbreaking.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/War...arch-for-missing-Appalachian-Trail-hiker.html

CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The search for missing hiker Geraldine Largay will be "extensively scaled back," the Maine Warden Service announced tonight, after a narrowed search of 4.2-square-miles of rough, mountainous terrain gave no answers about her disappearance.



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[angelmom]

Just got an email from George (not me personally, but forwarded through the various ministry leaders from our church) with permission to share.

He says that this article is probably the most current media info.

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/main...r-search-scaled-ba/1403223#.Uf960ACYj4Q.email

All,

The attached article provides all the stats and details on yesterday's final exhaustive search which did not find Gerry. The professional search and rescue folks are, in their words and like all of us, BAFFLED. They have done EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE......and beyond.

A much smaller scale search an investigation will be ongoing. 2:15 p.m. today will be two weeks since I last had contact from Gerry (a text). The last photo we have of her was from 7:15 a.m., also two weeks ago, from a fellow camper at a shelter. It is QUINTESSENTIAL GERRY, huge smile, backpack ready to go, couldn't wait to get on the trail for day 2 of a 3 day hike.

He goes on to give contact info, which I will obviously not share here, and to let us know that he has been strongly advised to go home with his daughter. He is going to do that after praying and thinking of what Gerry would do. (from my few meetings with her, I would agree 100%. She was a total "live in the moment" type person.)

He says that he continues to hope that she will be found so they will at least have some answers, and that he takes comfort in knowing she was doing what she wanted so much to do. He also thanks everyone for their prayers and thoughts and every effort to find Gerry.



This is so hard to accept. Our whole community is in shock. Please keep praying for their family. I don't know how anyone copes with something like this.

 

[Woofie]

a little bit more information:

http://appalachiantrail.com/20130806/lost-hiker-gerry-inchworm-largay-needs-a-miracle/

 

[terracotta]

The commenter of the above linked article makes a very good point. Maybe she did through hike and not stop at the Spaulding lean-to. It was raining hard and she just kept on going to make sure to be on time for the meet up with her husband. The river there would have had high waters. I wonder if they have searched down that river?

She definitely could have slipped on a ledge and be out of sight from the trail, but maybe she made it further than they are surmising.

 

[Unscripted]

A major Maine -- and national -- mystery

"Three young men hiking south on the trail remembered seeing her that afternoon near Lone Mountain, about three miles from the Spaulding shelter. To them, Largay — a longtime Georgia resident who recently moved to Tennessee and whose trail name was Inchworm — seemed fine. Then she vanished. Hikers who went through that section of the trail later that day did not see her, the Maine Warden Service said. Hikers who stayed at the Spaulding lean-to told wardens she didn’t stay there Monday or Tuesday night."

In-depth article from August 9th published in The Portland Phoenix:

http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/155248-major-maine-and-national-mystery/

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.pressherald.com/news/missing-hikers-husband-clings-to-hope-memories_2013-08-13.html

1:00 AM
By JOSH BROWN The Tennessean

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The last morning that George Largay saw his wife, they bid farewell as she set out for a three-day hike on a treacherous stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/23133537/family-of-missing-tennessee-hiker-leaves-maine

Posted: Aug 14, 2013 9:10 AM EDT
Updated: Aug 15, 2013 6:24 AM EDT

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP/NewsChannel 5) - The family of a Tennessee woman who went missing while hiking the Appalachian Trail in western Maine last month is returning home, but not giving up hope.

 

[sophiebelle]

What a sad thing to have to leave your loved one on that trail. I feel she fell somewhere during the rain and is out of sight.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/article/253968/3/Another-search-planned-for-missing-hiker-Gerry-Largay

4:49 PM, Aug 20, 2013
Chris Rose

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Maine game wardens plan another smaller search in the area of Sugarloaf Mountain for the body of missing hiker Gerry Largay.

 

[FigTree]

I really had hoped they had found her
I hope something comes to light on the next search, or some clue as to what's happened to her.
This must be devastating to her husband and family.
Prayer for the missing and their family, and for those who are searching.

 

[terracotta]

http://www.wgme.com/news/top-stories/stories/wgme_vid_18424.shtml

This is so sad. I guess they are not going to do any other searches for Gerry. My heart breaks for her family.

 

[poconoron]

A truly baffling case. At this point, we can only hope that her remains are found sometime in the near future, perhaps when all the leaf cover is gone in Fall and Winter.