The Shepards crossed into West Virginia on a cold but sunny afternoon. It had taken them two weeks to cover forty miles. It was not that they were extremely slow hikers, but they were very different hikers. Dressed in camouflage, they would go off the trail and conduct war games against each other for hours. Using various means of subterfuge, they would chase each other about with paintball guns. At one point, Jean spotted a park ranger. Rather than present themselves to him with their fake identity papers, they stalked him until they had backtracked ten miles. He never knew they were there. Jean Shepard won the game one day by finding a black bear in torpor and then maneuvering Arthur into accidentally awakening the beast. Arthur fled into the open, at which point his wife splattered him with blue paint. Along with hunting birds and other animals with their cameras, these games made their progress on the Appalachian Trail very slow. Both knew they could not frolic about in t...