[pct-l] Hiking the PCT wihout a shelter?

Phil Baily pbaily at webuniverse.net
Tue Nov 28 19:37:39 CST 2006


I stand corrected.

Pieces


At 05:05 PM 11/28/06, David wrote:
>And if you were hiking in Oregon this November you'd have been hiking
>for 28 days straight now ;-)
>
>On 11/28/06, Brian McLaughlin <bmclaughlin at bigplanet.com> wrote:
> > > If it were raining, the shelterless hiker would probably have to
> > > hike until it dried out, to keep body temperature up until the
> > > rain stopped.
> >
> > Perhaps in Oregon, but especially in Washington State during
> > September, the shelterless hiker might need to hike for about
> > 100 hours continuously to accomplish this feat. Then again,
> > the shelterless hiker might be exceptionally lucky (and never
> > know how lucky they were) and survive their shelterless thru-hike
> > without major problems of this sort.
> >
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