VILLAGE SOUP • May 14, 2020
When Hannah Raymond was growing up she never would have told anyone nature was her calling. It was not until after her college career, in which she held the idea of a more indoor-type of future in mind, did the now Searsmont resident realize the great wide open suited her heart's desire the most. Raymond, 35, spent many summers with her family in Maine, but the decision to call the Pine Tree State home did not come until six years ago. In April of 2019, Raymond, and her hiking partner, Erik Ludwig, began to hike a part of the Continental Divide Trail. After she left the Maine Conservation Corp., Raymond did volunteer trail work with the Smokies Wilderness Elite Appalachian Trail crew