Maine resumes search for AT hiker missing since 2013

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — Authorities have resumed searching for a Tennessee hiker missing from the Appalachian Trail in Maine since July 2013.

Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says Maine game wardens, state police, the Maine Association of Search and Rescue and federal border patrol workers resumed the search for 66-year-old Geraldine Largay on Tuesday. Largay disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County.

The Brentwood, Tennessee, resident was last seen early on the morning of July 22 at Poplar Ridge Lean-to in Redington Township, about 65 miles northwest of Showhegan.

Authorities say they have not set a date for future searches for Largay. Anyone who may have information about Largay is asked to call the Maine Warden Service at 207-624-7076.

: This photo shows Geraldine Largay in her black rain jacket which she would likely have been wearing in the rain on July 23. The photo was taken July 20 in Sandy River Plantation at the intersection of Route 4.

: Volunteers from Franklin Search and Rescue hike along a portion of Rapid Stream in Mount Abram Township in July 2013. Maine wardens resumed the search for missing hiker Geraldine Largay for a day Tuesday. They don’t have schedule for resuming the search this year yet.