[pct-l] Skill Sets

[dsaufley at sprynet.com]

Know how to utilize map & compass, and how to orient yourself with the map and landmarks.  Numerous times this season, we followed footsteps across snow fields only to find that the trail was no where to be seen when the snow ended.  Relocating the trail required the ability to figure out where the trail was using the map, compass, and physical landscape.  

L-Rod


-----Original Message-----
>From: Logan Park <park at vt.edu>
>Sent: Oct 18, 2006 5:29 PM
>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Skill Sets
>
>Howdy! 
>
> From the section and thruhikers, let's hear some skills you wouldn't 
>leave home with in regard to the PCT.  I'm coming from an AT context, so 
>a few that come to mind that I have no practice in are glissade and ice 
>axe use. 
>
>Hoplite
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