BACKPACKERS PAY TRIBUTE TO SLAIN COUPLE; GROUP TO FOLLOW TREK OF HIKING SPOUSES HIT BY CAR IN A.V.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Nearly two dozen people are on a memorial Sierra hike to honor a Massachusetts couple killed while backpacking through the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley two years ago. The two-week, 150-mile backpack trip from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park (yōsĕm`ĭtē), 761,266 acres (308,205 hectares), E central Calif.; est. 1890 as a result of the efforts of conservationist John Muir. Located in the Sierra Nevada, it is a glacier-scoured area of great beauty; Mt. is a tribute to Jane and Flicka Rodman of Worcester, who were run down by a car near Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl near the end of their 2,600-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail The Pacific Crest Trail (also known as the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail) is a long-distance mountain hiking and equestrian trail that runs from the United States border with Mexico to its border with Canada and follows the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and . Leading the contingent of 21 backpackers out of Echo Summit on Sunday were Flicka Rodman's mother, Barbara Perry of Elephant Butte Butte, city, United States Butte (by  t), city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. , N.M., and Jane Rodman's father, Frank Gatti of Amherst,
Mass. Friends of the late 30-year-old adventurers also are taking part.
``I'm excited and nervous. My pack is heavier than I thought it would be,'' said Perry, a management consultant who hasn't backpacked in 25 years. ``The most thrilling part is to know their feet were there.'' ``I hope to come away with some sort of understanding of the experience they had on the PCT (Private Communications Technology) A protocol from Microsoft that provides secure transactions over the Web. See security protocol. ,'' added Gatti, a child psychiatrist child psychiatrist Psychiatry A psychiatrist specialized in mental, emotional, or behavior disorders of children and adolescents; CPs are qualified to prescribe medications who has never backpacked. ``I want to see the wilderness and same mountains they did.'' The memorial hike, which will end Aug. 30 at Tuolumne Meadows, also is designed to raise support for one of the nation's premier hiking trails. The PCT traverses the mountains of California, Oregon and Washington between Mexico and Canada. The Jane and Flicka Endowment Fund was established as a memorial to further the work of the Sacramento-based PCT Association, which assists the federal government in the trail's management. The Rodmans were struck and killed by a car in November 1995 while walking along Highway 138, east of Avenue W. They were hit by a 1994 Isuzu Trooper that veered onto the dirt shoulder when the driver, a Lake Arrowhead man, fell asleep at the wheel. The couple, who began their PCT trek at the Canadian border in July 1995, reluctantly used the Southern California highway as a brief detour in an effort to catch up with fellow hikers and make it home by Christmas. The tragedy was the worst in the PCT's 29-year history. |
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