[pct-l] How flat is So Cal?

[Moynihan]

SoCal is not flat, if that were true than that would be the first 700
miles, and there are certainly many ups and downs in those first many
miles. I don't remember anything particularly difficult, but there are
steep climbs and rugged spots.
I don't use poles and I have a pretty bad knee. I simply can't  look
up and enjoy the senery with them and thats the big reason I hike.

Speedstick

On 1/10/08, Rob Rathmann <carcinomad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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