admitted to the Annes that while I still believed the overwhelming majority of hikers are good people, reading report after report of these individuals left me feeling overwhelmed and exposed. So too did the reports of the number of convicted sex offenders, pedophiles, and wanted criminals who were in the park the week Julie and Lollie were killed, which made me wonder just how many dangerous sadists hung out in national parks and whether the rest of us ought to avoid public lands entirely.
