[pct-l] CA Section C - PCT Reopened

[Sly]

I really don't know if it was "most", perhaps I should have said "many 
of the hikers" took the official trail rather than the relo.  Anyway, 
maybe there will be some making a stink but, that's their choice, I'm 
not listening.

Sly



Andrea Dinsmore wrote:
> I'd love to hear the comments about "_most of the other_" hikers 
> taking the closed section on _this_ part of the trail. There was such 
> a ruckus over Scott and Joe going through the closed section up north. 
> Seems to me they were singled out for some reason.
>  
> PCT MOM
>
>  
> On 8/12/08, *Sly* <slyatpct at aol.com <mailto:slyatpct at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     That's cool I think most of the hikers this year took the closed
>     section
>     anyway.  Some of the reasons being, a part of it was open to day
>     hikers,
>     the alternate had no posted water sources, no posted length and the
>     roads involved didn't connect on the guidebook maps.
>
>     To be honest, I followed the trail until I was out of the closed area
>     and thought it was one of the better sections of trail up to that
>     point.  Freshly groomed, no blow downs, plenty of water and despite
>     being burnt, really scenic.
>
>     Sly
>
>     Shutterbug steiner wrote:
>     > It seems like finally and officially the PCT is open around Big
>     Bear from the damaging fires (Butler I & 2 and Slide)  last fall.
>     >
>     > http://www.rimoftheworld.net/columns/neufeld/damaged
>     >
>     > http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/documents/nr_pct080708.pdf
>     >
>     > SB
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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