[pct-l] met 'first man to solo pct in 72

[dsaufley at sprynet.com]

Didn't go through Jawbone back when, staying much lower on the Mojave floor?  

L-Rod

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>From: Acu4harmony at aol.com
>Sent: Jan 21, 2007 6:09 PM
>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] met 'first man to solo pct in 72
>
>Yesterday I had the honor to meet Henry Wilds who according to many people  
>was the first to solo thru hike the PCT doing so in '72'.  I know  Ryback  
>hiked before that but the story has never been clear on that. First  or not I was 
>fascinated to find out that Henry was 16 years old when he started  his hike! 
>He hiked south to north and started at Campo (not at the 'terminus'  once 
>located  five miles to the west near Tecate as I would have guessed)  in June, as 
>he had to wait to be done with high school to start his hike. We  talked for 
>hours about his experiences on that hike. If you ask me a  sixteen year old 
>hiking a two and a half thousand mile trail, much of which did  not exist, with a 
>60-plus pound pack, is impressive!!! My hat off to him and all  early thru 
>hikers!! As Henry lives nearby to me I am hoping he can advise me  some on an 
>idea I have had in my head for sometime now. Has anyone considered  (or done 
>recently) doing a thru hike attempting to follow the circa 1970's PCT  route? 
>Only an idea for down the road some time, but was wondering what some of  the 
>'old' timers think of this? Would it be feasible?   Scott
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