[pct-l] no hitchhiking

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> Hikertown to Kennedy Meadows.  That's about 200 miles.  That's a  
> pretty long stretch without resupply, especially since it would  
> mean carrying at LEAST 8 days of food on your back through the  
> Mojave Desert part.  The standard would be to hitch into Mojave,  
> Tehachapi, or Onyx.

I did not hitchhike to Tehachapi. I simply emerged from the trail and  
was immediately offered a ride by someone. Does that count as  
hitchhiking?

Hitchhiking turned out not to be as bad as I thought it would be.  
Sometimes I even got rides from people who already knew me from  
following my trail journal.

Piper/Diane