Largay, 66, tried to contact her husband via text message after straying from the Appalachian Trail to go to the bathroom, according to a Maine Warden Service case file. She kept a journal with messages to her loved ones for several weeks after she was reported missing.

A medical examiner’s report includes new details of the last campsite of the long-missing Appalachian Trail hiker but sheds no light on how she got lost.

Geraldine Largay disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2013.

Remains found in Redington Township earlier this month were officially identified as those of missing Appalachian Trail hiker Geraldine Largay Friday.

Geraldine Largay is always on many hikers’ minds, and they wonder how she could have wandered off the trail and died in the woods.

Remains believed to be an Appalachian Trail hiker missing since 2013 were found Wednesday by a forester in wooded area about 3,000 yards from the trail in Redington Township.

Geraldine Largay, who was 66 and went by the nickname ‘Inchworm,’ was last seen in Franklin County on July 22, 2013, and Maine game wardens say they’ll continue searching for her in areas where ground searches haven’t occurred.

The family of missing Appalachian Trail hiker Geraldine Largay has increased the reward for information about her to $25,000.

A year after she disappeared, Geraldine Largay is still on the minds of those hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine.