Missing AT Thru Hiker

“Missing AT thru-hiker
Posted by: architectx on Jun-12-07 1:58 PM (EST)


-- Last Updated: Jun-12-07 2:09 PM EST --

Hey folks,

Hope you don't mind this showing up here on P-Net. Been a while since I posted, this isn't necessarily a great way to re-introduce myself.

Anyways:

My partner's son (solo thru-hiker) has been out of touch for much longer than usual. He should have checked in prior to June 5, but nobody has heard from him since June 1. His name is Gregg Baird (trail name Tennessee Jed). I've posted a link to a recent photo down below. Gregg is 6'5 and wears size 14 shoes (should be easy to remember based on his appearance). I'm hoping you can pass this on to any hikers you may know, local outfitters, and anyone else you deem appropriate. Gregg's dad, Phil Whitfield, feels like he's probably alright, but we're concerned over his lack of contact as it is highly unusual for Gregg to be out of touch so long.

We know he was in or near Glasgow on June 2nd based on a small credit card transaction (apparently for food).

If anyone happens to see him (or may have seen him recently), please post back here and / or email me for phone numbers and further discussion.

Thank you so much for your help.

Trey Wheeler
Chattanooga, Tennessee

http://homepage.mac.com/architectx/.Pictures/Gregg/Gregg%20Baird.jpg”

“Normally I would see something like this and assume he was just off having a good time and didn't call. But after I went to the Anime Convention with my daughter a few weeks back there was someone posting on that forum about someone missing. Turns out that on the way home he committed suicide. So I think I will reserve judgement this time and hope he shows up safe and sound.”

“a blank page for me!!!...
...anyone else having trouble???”

“I can't get the link either.

I wonder if this is posted on whiteblaze?

Everyone gonna give hyway a free pass for going to an anime convention?”

“it's posted on Whiteblaze as well.....”

“HyWay is either a saint of a pervert for going to the Anime convention!”

“Follow up
Posted by: architectx on Jun-12-07 4:12 PM (EST)
Hey folks,

Good news - the RidgeRunners found him and another "wayward son" this afternoon.

Thanks,

Trey”

“Great news. Thanks for the update.”

“Gotta admit...they waited from 5 June to the 12th before getting worried enough to push for finding him...had he been ill or injured he could have been in serious jeopardy....”

“he's hikin the AT - you wouldn't expect a daily or maybe even a weekly check in.”

“And Divinity is going to want to spank him ----”

“I'm so glad they found him! I couldn't stand it...I would be a nervous Nelly if my son did that! Just lock me up now!

PS...I think Hyway is a saintly pervert!”

“cg -- although I prolly have about the purest mind on TT (lol), I first read your post to say "just knock me up now."

Sorry, just had to share.

OH!!! And yes, glad the hiker dude is ok.”

“was there anything even wrong with the kid?”

“Fritz...I'm glad I'm not the only one that does that!”

“Back in the rubber room, CrazyGurl!!”

“i always told my mom "ill try to check in by X date, but dont get freaked out if im a a few days or a week late, because i cant predict how exactly things will go, or if there will be a telephone i can get to etc"”

“Trey and his partner Greg.

Their son was found with another "wayward son"



Come on guys..your missing the easy ones now. Hyway's anime convention pales.”

““And Divinity is going to want to spank him ----”
Tilt
11:16:54 AM
6/13/07

lol.....YES...if he were my kid!!!!!!!

after a bunch of big hugs of course....

I'm tickled to hear he was found!!!
wooo hooo!!!!
last edited: 6/14/07 5:44:53 AM”

“OPIE - I read and reread the partner thing. It could mean partner in the context you took it or it could mean business partner. Either way, the anime convention is a much bigger deal.”

“his hiking partner, ya big dummies. Just to give dayhiker some ammo, I cosplayed a Shinigami from Death Note the whole time I was there.”

“Typical scene at the anime convention:

”

“All he needs is a big "3" shaved on his back ---

Maybe some Support Garments...”

“HyWay, what ever that is did it require you wearing a skirt?

Something tells me that tickling Divinity would result in a "Woo Hoo!!!".”

“Which Clan Tartan is that?”

“This is me as a shinigami:



I dressed in my grim reaper costume and my daughter gave me an Apple and told me I was a shinigami from death note (gods of death, who love apples).

But you also get to see stuff like this at anime conventions:

”

“That's just turrible.”

“Goot mornin' lil' school girl!!”

“Most of the girls at Animazement were college girls. If I were young and single what I would like best about that is that they are cute college girls who are staying in the same hotel as the convention and their rooms are usually well stocked with alcohol.”

“My 7 year old is going the a Pokemon addiction these days.”

“He's preparing for those hot college anime cosplaying chicks.”

“"co-splaying"?

Splaying, what?

There is a heap of Pokemon cards somewhere in my house.
I wonder if they are worth less than their purchase price or just worthless.
Actually, the boys had a lot of good fun with that stuff and played for hours with them.

We have a huge plastic container of LEGO parts from that stage of life.
That stuff is going to a younger generation of cousins who are now old enough to not try and eat them.”

“pokemon cards are better than that stupid Pog craze before it lol.

I can't swing a dead cat in my house without hitting some kind of pokemon, dragonballz, neopet, etc card. Stacks and stacks of them. I don't even bother asking if they are the valuable ones anymore when I am cleaning up. If they are on the floor they go in the trash :).”

“Looks like Violin is alive, well, and attending anime conventions! Good to know.”

“Yup, he appears to have slimmed down a bit, too!”

“Ahahahaha!! Good one.”

“My sons thing is that when I bring the laptop home he'll google all of these characters and then hit print and it'll print back at the office since all our printers have IP addresses. He thinks that's pretty cool. Then, he'll cut out the characters and leave the remaining bits of paper wherever they fall at home. The whole process is a big hit because once he prints it he wants to you to drop what you're doing and go get the printout. Uh, if you want it now why didn't you print it from mom's computer to that printer right there beside you?”

“My daughter used to use sculpey clay to make her own pokemon figures. Either that or she would draw them by the hundreds. Now she is in to more 'mature' anime and manga like Full Metal Alchemist and Death Note :) She draws those characters endlessly all day long.”

“Priceless !!

How old is the kid, HyWay?

My oldest used to draw characters and has notebooks full of them.”

“omg....lol..ya'll sure ruined this thread....lol...well...not really ruined...BUT off the subject!!!....lol...typical TT.....
...hugs...that's why I luv ya'll!!!!!”

“Watch it lady, or you're in for a tickling!!”

“She's 13 and the reason I went to an anime convention.

divinity, the purpose for this thread was find a missing AT hiker. Once found the thread no longer had a purpose. We are recycling it. Thread hijacking is good for the environment.”

“lol.....recycling.......what a GREAT way to put it!!!

lol.....”