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Taylor Swift employed a trust exercise teens practice at sleep away camp on her most recent attempt to enjoy the great outdoors. A few of the pop star's Tumblr followers had questions about an image of Taylor walking backwards, while aligning herself with the hand of a man who is not Calvin Harris.
One fan noted that it looks like, "she is doing that test that police officers do to see if you’re drunk or not." Swift clarified that she was not drunk, but rather trying to get her hike on when she noticed a cameraman peeking through shrubbery for her photograph. As she has done before, Taylor turned around and hiked the entire trail backwards with some help from her security guard. Backwards walking, one of the better paparazzi-avoidance maneuvers we've heard.