[pct-l] Time for the Annual "Why I Boycott the ADZ" Message

Wed Feb 27 12:32:42 CST 2008

Yes, and what allowed the AT hikers to spread out their start dates?  There
absence of a starting event.  

BTW, isn’t Trails Day a national holiday, celebrated the first weekend of
June everywhere?  Every point on the trail has a peak.  I suspect the AT
peak fell right at that time in Damascus.  

Sly, we’re going round for round on this to no avail.  I respectfully agree
to disagree with you.  I could further argue that I live here and witness
what’s going on every year (actually live and breathe it) and you don’t, but
whatever.  You are still a friend, and a welcome guest at Hiker Heaven, and
I will greet you with open arms and sincere joy to see you again.

L-Rod

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From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Slyatpct at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:22 AM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Time for the Annual "Why I Boycott the ADZ" Message

I'll try to use AT Trail Days as an example.  It's held the week after
Mothers Day and is 450 miles from the start or about 6 weeks hiking on that
trail.  Take a guess what, traditionally was/is the biggest starting day is?
April 1st.  It's not because of Trail Days.  The Trail Days date was choosen
because that's when most hikers arrived at Damascus.  Of course, as the
number of starters grew, people wanted to spread out, so now they start
earlier and earlier and get back to Trail Days.  Now, there's not one huge
herd but several with most hikers starting on or around 3/1, 3/17 and 3/21
along with 4/1.  Each of these "herds" is about the same size of the PCT
herd.

Now  say  the KO was moved to Wrightwood  or Kennedy Meadows or wherever.
In order for it to be successful, you'd need to pick a date when most of the
hikers would be arriving.  This date would be an average from when most
people start the trail.  That date would be towards the last weekend of
April if only not to arrive in the Sierras too soon.  Back to square one. 

Even with quotas, of say 10-15 per day leaving Campo spread out over a 30
day period, the herd would still bunch up in towns.  The towns, PO, stores,
hostels, motels on the AT deal with 1000's of hikers, packages, requests.
Certainly the west coast should be able to deal with 300.

Sly

In a message dated 2/27/2008 12:54:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dsaufley at sprynet.com writes:

Moving the ADZ to much later in the season and further up
the trail would not make the event any less special.  I propose that it
become AZD for annual zero day. 

 Personally, I think hikers who make it into the
Sierra deserve a party and a free meal more than the starters do. They've
earned it, whereas a third of the starters don't make it that far.

If you can come up with a better solution than that, I'm all ears. 

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