This summer 2 women hikers were shot on a popular Seattle area trail to Pinacle Lake, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003302372_hikerdeath13m.html. I have been on this trail and in the general area several times, although not recently. For the first couple of weeks after the killing I was more vigilant on the trail but soon stopped thinking about it while hiking. I suspect being more watchful did not make me safer, just anxious. I'm not sure what I can do to protect myself other than hiking in a group, something I don't want to do, see previous post on hiking alone. Besides, since no motive is known group hiking may not be safer.
I know that violent encounters in the backcountry or on trails are rare and I am probably safer hiking than walking around Seattle. Yet this killing seems more real to me than the average shooting in Seattle. I can better relate to the circumstances. I haven't stopped hiking since the killings and won't although I'm not sure I will hike alone in the area where they died for a while.
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