Denying the story is childish and ineffective, at least with me, nobody knew where he was except that he was hiking and what area that was in, the real story is not that he was hiking but that he appears to have abandoned his state office for five days and cut communications with his responsibilities and his Lt. Governor, and even his own staff.
This is the second day of this story breaking out and we still don’t have any thing useful from him to explain what has been going on for the last five days.