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Suffering hiker aided
A NEAR TRAGIC INCIDENT in the recent snow storm involved a 15-year old boy, Thomas Menis, of Gaithersburg, Md., a hiker on the Appalachian Trail.
He passed through Chester Gap late Saturday afternoon, and followed the Trail into the Shenandoah National Park about two miles before making camp and retiring for the night in his sleeping bag. When he awoke Sunday morning he was buried under some two feet of snow and the snow was still falling.
His shoes and outer garments were wet, stiff and hard to manage. In the midst of the heavy snow and minus shoes and other clothes, with frozen feet and shivering half-clad body, he found his way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Scheidegger on Route > 610, where he arrived about 9 o’clock to ask for help.
The Scheideggers gave first aid, supplied dry clothing and food, and also phone service to call the boy’s parents. Because of the deep drifting snow and closed roads down the mountain, there was a problem about getting the boy to medical aid. However, further help was obtained in Albert Wines, who made a path up th e road with his bulldozer, and Billy Wines who supplied his International Travel-All to carry the suffering youth down to Route 522. At that point, they were met by the boy’s father and another son, and Thomas was transferred to his father’s car to continue his journey to the hospital, approximately two hours from the time he stumbled out of the blizzard into the home of his first benefactors. □
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