As many already know, I hiked the trail over a two year period, 2007-2008. During that time, strange events would occur during the night. Usually, between midnight and three in the morning on a moonless night, a helicopter would appear out of nowhere. Well, maybe “appear” is a poor choice of words. The chopper had no lights on whatsoever and being so dark, it was difficult to see any identification at all, if there was any. On the last visit, the chopper didn’t even wake me up, and it was right over me. 

The craft would hover right down into the trees, the bottom of the helicopter actually in the leaves and limbs of the trees. It would hover for maybe a minute or two at the most and then quickly dart away and disappear. 

Since the incident in Pakistan where they finally took down Bin Laden I’ve wondered if they were practicing on me and other hikers along the trail? We make perfect targets for such an operation: mobile, in a different location every night, difficult to identify due to tree cover or being inside of a shelter, and located far from things that are dangerous to fly around in the dark, i.e. telephone poles, towers and the like. I speculated that they (whomever “they” are?) were working on a personnel identification system, maybe I wasn’t that far off. I wonder if they knew exactly which room Bin Laden was in?

Since I am tall, bearded and “Bin Laden” like, I’ve often fancied myself a useful target for them to work with. I’ll never know of course, but I can only hope that in some way, maybe I played a role. 

Starting on page 175 (Kindle = 52%) of THREE HUNDRED ZEROES I discuss the incidents in some detail and even at that time speculated that maybe this was what was going on. Of course, I can’t help myself, there is some humor in there as well, but maybe, just maybe, it was far more serious than I knew.

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Dennis “K1” Blanchard