[pct-l] hiking speed

[Slyatpct at aol.com]

That's all nice and good but I never mentioned hiking slower.  I only  
pointed out if you hike faster, you're home quicker.  It's a simple concept  and has 
nothing to do with crowds, taking zeros, bad weather or whethe you  finish or 
not in a single year.
 
Washington wasn't all that bad, even in foul weather.  Sure tthe  rain got 
tiresome but I think my best days were in white outs and snow  storms.
 
Also, finishing before the bad weather or finishing in single year  doesn't 
matter to me.  I'll just come back another day.  To me, and I  assume you, it's 
all in the journey, not the destination.
 
Sly
 
 
In a message dated 12/6/2007 10:12:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
jeff.singewald at comcast.net writes:

Like Sly says, hike slower on your PCT thru-hike and you will have a  better 
chance to join the crowds that didn't have a chance  to complete their 
thru-hike this year because they pushed the  weather envelope to far before the bad 
weather hit the Cascades.   Additionally, if you hike "slower" you can spend 
more time hiking in the  social packs that are quite common along the trail now 
days.  And lastly,  if you hike "slower" you will likely have more zero days 
than some of the  folks that finish in early September.
 
In the years prior to my 2006 thru-hike I had been an avid reader of  trail 
journals and one of the things I noticed is that many of  the stories from 
Washington were of folks hiking for days on end through  rain and foul weather.  
Through this type of weather there is very little  chance of seeing the 
incredible beauty of this section of trail.
 
Sly, for some of us, it is not about how many days we spend on the trail,  
but the quality of the experience we have in the time we do spend on the  trail. 
 How quality is defined is an individual measurement and we should  not judge 
how others choose to hike and be so bold to suggest that our  experience is 
better than someone elses experience because we chose to hike it  differently.



 



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