[pct-l] Desert Triple Crown WAS Qudaruple Crown?

[Ellen Feeney]

There's also the work-in-progress on the California Coastal Trail, beach and street walking in southern California, more back-country seaside hiking in the north. 
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From: "Trekker4 at aol.com" <Trekker4 at aol.com>
To: pmags at yahoo.com; pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 6:24:50 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Desert Triple Crown WAS Qudaruple Crown?

Mags,

    I love that idea!
    
    I've added mileages to your posting below;  interestingly they're all 
very close in length. A bit more info, based on my  limited knowledge follows:
AZT almost "officially" finished & has a guidebook.
HTofficially finished & has a guidebook; definitely the "gnarliest", as  
the book says expect 8 mi/dy.
GET officially finished & has an online guidebook; also has an  excellent 
set of maps on CD for $15.

    What I tell people about the HT, is that in places  it's something 
like, "you're walking in a river, counting canyons on your  left, as you have to 
sorta rock scramble up the 6th canyon to a plateau. BTW,  there are no 
trail angels; no paved roads, except once every hundred miles; no  water 
reports, except info from 1-3 years ago; no other hikers; and you'll have  to spend 
days driving food & water caches in on bad roads.

    There is also a long S-N Desert Trail, E of the PCT  & W of the CDT; 
I've watched it for 25 years, but it's never been finished,  stalled in S OR 
for at least 20 years going N. I don't know if the parts in  S NV tie into 
the CA parts, and the latter are done by a separate  organization. Last year, 
I sent 2 emails to the DT Association asking where to  find info on the CA 
parts; both went unanswered. I was a "member" much  of that time, but have 
let it lapse; buried in my old newsletters is info on the  CA parts. The guide 
pamphlets I do have (like fold-out maps) use landmark  photos as guides, so 
you pick your own route and spread out impact on  the desert. This trail 
would be the best S-N candidate for a 2,000  mi Quadruple Crown, but they'd 
have to get their trail completed; perhaps a  third of it is non-existent.    

    God willing I'll finish the PCT in 2009, then the  CDT by 2013, and 
then consider myself ready for the HT. I'll be 70 then, so I'll  probably only 
hike it with someone else. In the intervening years I hope to  start picking 
up sections of the AZT & GET.


Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen, and...
Naturalized Citizen - Republic  of Texas  


In a message dated 5/23/2009 2:47:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
pmags at yahoo.com writes:

My buddy  Disco has, IMO, a really good designation that involves a Triple  
crown:

the Desert Triple Crown

The Arizona Trail  _http://www.aztrail.org/_ (http://www.aztrail.org/)  - 
820 mi
The Grand Enchantment Trail  
_http://www.simblissity.net/grand_enchantment.shtml_ (http://www.simblissity.net/grand_enchantment.shtml)  - 730 mi
The Hayduke Trail _http://hayduketrail.org/_ (http://hayduketrail.org/)  - 
800  mi


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