Does the National Park Service confiscate this stuff, too? "From Springer Mountain in Georgia to Maine's Mount Katahdin, Pegg enjoys a rock star's renown. The 59-year-old retired prison guard ... is a "trail angel." "During the nine-month hiking season, he distributes "trail magic" - free water, food, and other goodies - just about every day to through-hikers traversing New Jersey as they attempt to walk the entire 2,172-mile Appalachian Trail. "He sweeps out trail-side shelters and leaves behind cookies, hard candy, foot powder, Advil, and Band-Aids. "He fills gallon jugs with water and leaves them on stretches of the trail where water is otherwise hard to come by. -Bob Ivry, "An angel through and through," The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey), August 21, 2003 Steve Team Tierra Buena