I wonder if this "trail angel" uses waypoints to mark where his "trail magic" caches are located?  Is there a double standard here?  It'll be interesting to see if now that this information has been released, if the National Park Service confiscates these caches too!  If not! then I see no reason why geocachers couldn't place geocaches along the trail every few miles.  We could put our own provisions (Band-Aids, games, puzzles, batteries, etc.) in the caches.  The follow-up story could be titled: "GEOANGELS through and through."

Rand
(RandMan)  

----- Original Message -----
From: Team Tierra Buena
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:26 PM
To: Arizona Geocaching
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Sounds like Litter to Me

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