[pct-l] permits

[Bob Sartini]

When you say the Rangers make exceptions for thruhikers does that mean 
bearcans are optional for thruhikers? I still don't have an idea if bear 
cans  are just a "rule" or we REALLY need a bear cams. I get a lot of 
"follow the rules" type answers and I'll be a good dubie and get one but do 
I NEED one. If I'm a first class food hanger is that REALLY not good enough. 
Are Sierra bears exposed to more clueless people than the Shendoah or the 
Smokies? That would be a new level of cluelessness  I think.
"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna "L-Rod" Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com>
To: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] permits


> Hmmm, I think that needs to be qualified a bit.  You don't need a Whitney 
> sticker if you're accessing from the JMT's approach out of Crabtree.  You 
> DO have to have a permit if you're staying overnight pretty much anywhere 
> in the Sierras, or accessing the range through most side trails (ie., 
> Cottonwood Pass, Kearsarge, etc.) and some of those areas have quotas.
>
> Access to Whitney from the eastern Portal side is the ONLY place I've seen 
> a ranger on the trail actively checking for permits and bear cans.  I've 
> heard that they make exceptions for PCT thru-hikers, but that's not 
> something I would want to leave to chance.  If a resupply in Lone Pine 
> using the Whitney Portal Trail is planned, it might not be a bad idea to 
> get the Whitney sticker.
>
> L-Rod
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>
>>Sent: Nov 28, 2008 9:58 AM
>>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>>Subject: [pct-l] permits
>>
>> In 2007 the park rangers at the inter agency ranger station in Lone Pine 
>> said you only need a Whitney permit if you are entering or exiting via 
>> Whitney Portal. If you are just making a Whitney detour from Crabtree 
>> Meadows "no permit required". I suggest that you resupply via Onion 
>> Valley. Who wants to carry a pee bag for the next hundred miles any way.
>>
>>Robert
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