[pct-l] 16 miles, and 5000 feet is pretty good.

[The Mountain Goat]

You know, 16 miles and 5000 feet is not realy to bad. We may do 12-50 miles on the (PCT) trail, but getting up there in the higher 20's or more does have some bearing on how much up and down our bodies have endured, and perhaps how often we hike. When practicing on the Belden grade ( I live only an hour away), doing 4000' and 20+ miles is part of my routine, but that takes a few hikes for me to work up to.
Lets give the writer so leaway, for the average person, even doing 10+ miles may be a great milestone let alone 5000'. Its great so many people can enjoy the outdoors, Let them enjoy it, even if its a different milage.

Only one out of 100,000 of us want or decide that thru-hiking is the best thing since sliced bread. Its not for everyone. As for me I think I need to go back and look at some flowers somewhere on the PCT, but don't remmeber exactly where. Guess I will have to do the whole thing again :-)

Then there is the CDT....

-Mountain Goat-

PCT 2005
CDT 2014
PCT 2016
AT 2021
ICDT 2023
Sea to Sea trail 2029
US to Russion thru Alaska 2030-31
Great Wall of China 2036
Walk around the World 2036-39
Canadian Rockies Trail 2041-42

[pct-l] 16 miles in one day! Oooooo....     Jon Danniken      danniken at comcast.net        
     

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Danielsen" 
> =) I guess This NY Times reporter hasn't done any long distance hiking...
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/travel/escapes/27larch.html

Alright!  Let's mock people who aren't as cool as us!  Yeah!

Jon


-Mountain Goat-

PCT2005
CDT 2014
PCT 2016
AT 2021
ICDT 2023
Sea to Sea trail 2029
US to Russion thru Alaska 2030-31
Great Wall of China 2036
Walk around the World 2036-39
Canadian Rockies Trail 2041-42

 
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