[pct-l] Thru-hiking in 3 months?

[ed faubert]

Meadow Ed here....
Years ago when i was the PCT statistion of records i was aware of many folks who would indeed start in early June a few 100 miles up the trail then indeed come back and finish this section last.  It was an amazing fact of trail lore that often the last person who left Mexico would end up being in the top of the list of finishers. i ran into a guy call ed agnew at messenger flats in early june who was #3 to Canada that year. He had just gotten out of the Navy and was doing 30 mile days on day 1......These folks tend to not take no days off as in most cases they are alone out there and have their nose to the trail....Many folks have compleated the trail in 100 days or less,  thats 27 miles a day for 100 days and you can increase that milage quite a bit by the time you reach Shasta.  so yes its doable and lots of folks have done it in 90/100 days but again its putting your nose to the trail every day and not many days off.

Too bad some many folks out there was opposed to this record keeping and that no one has continued this.  The last few years we see more of an interest in rekindling this record keeping and maby someone will step up to the plate. I think the people who were opposed to this have to see the value of this information for future hikers........ if not then its their problem........

Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote: 
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 6:15 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>> Thru-hiking in 3 months?
> You'll find So Cal very uncomfortable (hot and dry) starting in mid- 
> June. Why not just start at Kennedy Meadows? That's when the herd'll  
> be there. Or start at Tehachapi so you get a taste of the desert  
> before hitting the Sierras. You can always do So Cal some other time,  
> even at the end if you get all the way to Canada.
> Piper
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