[pct-l] trail routing north of Belden

[David Plotnikoff]

Hello from a longtime list-lurker.

 From what I can gather from assorted Web references, the trail route 
north from Belden, up the Chips Creek drainage, to Poison Spring is 
significantly divergent from what's in the guidebook.

Can someone who's been up that stretch recently shed some light on 
exactly what the situation is? Is there one confusing creek crossing 
around Myrtle Flat? Several? Does the current route drop all the way 
down to Chips Creek proper, or remain high up the slope? Did people 
end up going XC between Myrtle Flat and Poison Spring? Cairns?

Thanks. I suspect JoAnn Michael and the Backcountry Horsemen are the 
right people to address this. But I can't seem to find her e-mail at 
the moment.

DP