[pct-l] Map and Guide feedback request.

[Stephen]

Wow, I'm not even going to read the rest of your post. 
I just wondered what folks recommend before I start buying stuff. 
But you can be as oppionated as I tend to be also.  So no worries. 
I actually want something basic,not a hold your hand the whole way guide that tells me where every stick and downed tree was in 1985.  The problem is I can't find just the new PCT map for N. Cal so maybe it's not finished.   
But if you don't like my post, you really shouldn't respond to it.
You'd think I was  bringing my dog or something, Geez.     

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Trekker4 at aol.com 
  To: reddirt2 at earthlink.net ; pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:18 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Map and Guide feedback request.


      When I see a post like this, it exasperates me. Reddirt, you have every right to ask for whatever you want on this list, but you're expecting others to do your homework, take a bunch of time explaining what can't be explained in an email, and clog up the list with explanations that are written elsewhere. If you're not willing to spend the book and map money, you shouldn't impose on others due to that decision; I don't know how you can afford to hike if you can't afford the basic info. "Hike your own hike." is a perhaps overused, but very, very true expression. I'm starting a new one: "Be responsible for your own hike."
      The PCT color topos are available on CD from More Than a Mile, partial others on the Inet, partly in the PCT Handbook(s), and, when completed, from the Forest Service. Black & white topos are in the Guidebooks; at the very least buy the Guidebook for whatever you want to hike!
      The Guidebooks are "old", but very little has changed; most corrections and changes are on the Wilderness Press site. Yogi's Handbook has a lot more than town info, and is just as valuable, with more up to date info about some things; her changes are on her site. The Databook is also very useful; it's on the Inet in .pdf, since it's possibly out of print at present. Jardine's PCT specific info is probably the most outdated.  

  Did I mention that I'm occasionally opinionated?
  Bob "Trekker"
  Big Bend Desert Denizen
  Naturalized Citizen - Republic of Texas


  In a message dated 2/16/2009 8:45:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, reddirt2 at earthlink.net writes:
    I haven't purchased any guide literature or maps yet for the long section I am planning.  VVR to Timberline OR.
    I read a couple reviews on the basic Pacific Crest Trail books and all suggest rather dated material.  Also don't see the new PCT maps covering N.Cal that I would like to have.  I know nothing of Yogi's book, but am under the impression it is more orientated towards towns and services available along the way.  I'd like to know what others think so I don't have to buy a bunch of stuff and pick through it if it can be avoided.  I have Jardine's book from back in the day which I have been using to set basic itenerary for myself and pick my resupplies.  I'm familliar with the Sierra through to Sonora Pass, and those sections I have not hiked I have maps for.  It's from there north I'd like to read up on and I understand there are some dry stretches besides Hat Creek Rim I need to be prepared for.    
    So I'd just like hear some feedback from those familliar with what's out there.    
    Resupply points I have been to or used are VVR, Tuolumne, Sierra City, Old Station, Burney Falls store.
    Thanks,
    Stephen                        
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