Trevor Thomas, Hiking Blind Part II: The Mental Game
“Most of them won’t make it,” Trevor Thomas says. Thomas, his guide dog Tennille and I are watching thru hikers pass by our camp on the Appalachian Trail in the Grayson Highlands of Virginia. Tennille and I are watching. Trevor is listening. Although he can’t see the backpackers walking by Thomas uses sound, smell and vibration to form rudimentary pictures in his mind. I am certain that he perceives what is going on around us as accurately as I do, just differently. Occasion
