[pct-l] How flat is So Cal?

[Rob Rathmann]

You can check out the elevation/grade by section here:

http://www.bearcant.org/elevation.php

I started without poles, but ended up buying them in Idyllwild after
experiencing some serious knee pain.  They saved my hike.

bearcan't

On Jan 9, 2008 8:41 PM, Eric Payne <vaporjourney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about not getting my trekking poles until Kennedy Meadows.  I
> typically always use trekking poles when there is lots of tricky eleveation
> gain, but I have a mental image of most of the PCT (especially socal) being
> very graded.  How wrong am I?  I definitely want the poles for the sketchy
> fords in the Sierra, and then I'll keep them beyond that.  I can just
> remember all of the times on the AT when I hated using them on flat
> sections.  They seemed sort of like a waste of time in those sections, and I
> didn't like using the energy to swing them...it felt unnatural and just
> something else to pay attention to.  Can you say lazy?  Still...it also
> seems that it would use less energy, thus calories, thus less water in
> socal.
>
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