[pct-l] permit

[AsABat]

Yeah, what L-Rod said. Don't give them an excuse to take away this
system for thruhikes - you may want it in the future.

Anyway, it really isn't THAT hard unless you are heading out late
minute with no time to plan. The guidebook tells you what areas need
permits in the intro to each trail section. True, the permit process
might have changed, but knowing the agency to contact and the internet
makes it easy to find the current rules. I have often had to get a
permit from one agency to start a section hike. In some cases their
website said to get the permit in person at their office on the west
side of the Sierra (Section J I think) but I called and they mailed it
to me. I thought Lassen National Park would be difficult but they also
mailed me a permit no problem. And yes, ANY national park or forest
should be able to issue a permit for their wilderness that is good
through the stated end of your hike.

AsABat

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM, dsaufley <dsaufley at sprynet.com> wrote:
> As someone I respect pointed out to me (when I basically got spanked for
> proposing the same concept), that's really not the right thing to do, even
> though it technically can be accomplished. As a section hiker, I know all
> too well the difficulties of identifying the correct agency, determining
> what their permit policies are (sometimes there are none but you have to
> find that out).  Then there's amount of time it takes to visit field offices
> to pick up permits on their schedule, which takes away from your hiking
> time. It's sorely tempting to shortcut that process, cheating the system.
>
> For the agencies, that can throw off the numbers of people that they are
> aware of as being on trail or in the backcountry. Detailed itineraries are
> requested by the agencies for at least two reasons that I am aware of. One,
> the trails in our national forests and parks are heavily used.  Quotas are
> in place on many of them, and numbers are monitored. Secondly, they want to
> know approximately how many people they have in what locations in the event
> of any type of emergency. They will turn to their records to see where
> people might possibly be in the backcountry. Sometimes they will isolate
> their search down to a specific individual.
>
> Abuses of the PCT thru-permit process could have an impact on the tremendous
> gift we are given by it. The actions of a few, and sometimes just one, can
> take away privileges for us all.
>
> L-Rod
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of shelly skye
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:34 PM
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] permit
>
> "the value of the PCT thru permit (for contiguous trips of 500 miles or
> more) pretty much priceless in my book."
> So what happens if you think you are going to hike 500 miles but then, well
> you just don't happen to get
> through the whole thing? That could be an option...
>
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