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Bennington Program hikers find self through wilderness trial
A reporter visits the Bennington Program in Vermont as 23 high school dropouts trek into the Wilderness on the Long Trail. They face isolation, rough terrain, and a food drop at Lake Pleiad while Ralph Wright and staff describe the experiment as both humane and crazy, testing character beyond civilization.
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Middlebury Gap
Bennington
Vt. 125
Hancock
Tom Steffen
Highway Department
Ralph Wright
David Jareckie
Lake Pleiad
Janus
U.S. Army
Middlebury
Thomas Steffen
Toni Krulikowski
Chuck Baker
Peter Metcalfe