[pct-l] hiking alone

[jeff.singewald at comcast.net]

In 2006, I hiked solo from Castella north.  I saw just a couple of other thru-hikers as I was near the front of the pack  and some section hikers for the last 1500 miles but often went days on end without encountering others.  For me, this was something I was definitely looking for as I wanted to experience this and see how I would cope.   It was wonderful.  The conversations I had with myself were quite enlightening :)  I had very few pressures to meet the needs of a social hiking group.  It also allowed me to push bigger mileage and reach Canada with no interruptions in a year when very few thru-hikers did do to the fires and such.  I realize this is not the style of hike that everyone is searching for but for me, it was definitely a wonderful experience.  



Elevator 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark v" <allemande6 at yahoo.com> 
To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 10:41:43 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] hiking alone 





I had a 4-day stretch in northern California in which i only saw 2 or 3 other hikers in passing, and was essentially on my own.  This was when the various wildfires had dispersed the herd with many skipping ahead, a few doing different routes, etc.  If it weren't for the fires scattering hikers, my longest stretch would have been 2 days in Glacier Peak Wilderness.   

Funny, those stretches seemed much longer than that at the time. 


       
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