[pct-l] Thru Hike planning around a wedding

Mon Apr 11 14:23:25 CDT 2011

HalfMile,

Thanks so much again.  I'm going to see the groom tomorrow or wed night and
we'll figure it out.  May be easier for him to fly into San Fran considering
how far I *should *be up in the Sierras.  Reno seems like an even better
option as well.

I'll email you in a few days.

Thanks again,

you're the best :)

Joshua Pinedo

On 11 April 2011 13:21, Halfmile <halfmile at pctmap.net> wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
> I'll probably ramble a bit too, but here are some thoughts on this...
>
> First I have updated my hiker schedules, you can see them here:
> http://www.pctmap.net/pctdownloads/pct_hiker_schedule.pdf
>
> I think I understand your plan:
> April 23 - begin PCT hike
> June 16 - depart trail for wedding
> July 5 - resume hike
>
> So the pre-wedding part of your hike is 54 days. You probably should
> be well past Kennedy Meadows by June 16 (Campo to Kennedy Meadows in
> 54 days is 13 mile per day average).
>
> The bigger issue is it's 1903 miles from Kennedy Meadows to Manning
> Park and assuming you want to finish before October you have 87 days
> to make 1903 miles or 21.9 mile per day average. This is certainly
> doable for a young fit hiker but it's not like you will just hustle
> for a few weeks and catch back up with the pack.
>
> On July 5th the pack will be 315 miles north at or approaching Sonora Pass.
>
> I look at snow as something a hiker just has to deal with. If I were
> in your situation I would just come prepared for it and push
> on...Ideally making it to Reds Meadow (near Mammonth Lakes) by June
> 16th. That would be a pretty ambitious goal however.
>
> Other pickup points to consider would be:
> Kearsarge Pass mile 789
> Bishop Pass mile 831
> VVR mile  879
> Reds Meadow mile 907
>
> VVR is probably the worst from a logistics perspective. It would be a
> very very long drive from LA to VVR to Vegas, around 800 miles of
> driving.
>
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=lax&daddr=Kaiser+Pass+Rd+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+89109+(Las+Vegas+Visitors+Information+Center)&hl=en&geocode=FefvBQIdKTrx-Cm1T7IT0rDCgDHxrYtpV3uodw%3BFaQ3OgIdsVno-A%3BFTFHJwIdxqAi-Sn9uwzYQsTIgDG8jlz-MLhOyw&mra=dme&mrsp=1&sz=14&sll=37.360812,-118.981247&sspn=0.039568,0.085745&ie=UTF8&ll=37.127476,-119.126129&spn=0.836514,0.918732&z=10<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=lax&daddr=Kaiser+Pass+Rd+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+89109+%28Las+Vegas+Visitors+Information+Center%29&hl=en&geocode=FefvBQIdKTrx-Cm1T7IT0rDCgDHxrYtpV3uodw%3BFaQ3OgIdsVno-A%3BFTFHJwIdxqAi-Sn9uwzYQsTIgDG8jlz-MLhOyw&mra=dme&mrsp=1&sz=14&sll=37.360812,-118.981247&sspn=0.039568,0.085745&ie=UTF8&ll=37.127476,-119.126129&spn=0.836514,0.918732&z=10>
>
> It's more then 600 miles assuming a Mammoth Lake Pickup. But at least
> you have a shot at getting back there to resume your hike on public
> transportation if your ride fall through.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=lax&daddr=Mammoth+Lakes,+CA+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+89109+(Las+Vegas+Visitors+Information+Center)&hl=en&geocode=FefvBQIdKTrx-Cm1T7IT0rDCgDHxrYtpV3uodw%3BFaJ4PgIdUaHo-CmfF7N5XwyWgDFtje4P19kU8Q%3BFTFHJwIdxqAi-Sn9uwzYQsTIgDG8jlz-MLhOyw&mra=ls&sll=37.127476,-119.126129&sspn=0.635051,1.371918&ie=UTF8&z=7<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=lax&daddr=Mammoth+Lakes,+CA+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+89109+%28Las+Vegas+Visitors+Information+Center%29&hl=en&geocode=FefvBQIdKTrx-Cm1T7IT0rDCgDHxrYtpV3uodw%3BFaJ4PgIdUaHo-CmfF7N5XwyWgDFtje4P19kU8Q%3BFTFHJwIdxqAi-Sn9uwzYQsTIgDG8jlz-MLhOyw&mra=ls&sll=37.127476,-119.126129&sspn=0.635051,1.371918&ie=UTF8&z=7>
>
> -Halfmile
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Joshua Pinedo <joshua.pinedo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Halfmile,
> >
> > So after a few months I finally got my act together and started thinking
> the
> > logistics.  One of my best friends is getting married on July 2 in
> > Virginia.  We had planned to have his bachelor party before my departure
> > from home (my flight is on April 22), but due to scheduling it would be
> too
> > soon for a lot of our friends to make it.  Instead, the groom decided to
> > have it in Vegas and decided on the weekend of June 18.  He is planning
> to
> > fly to LA, pick up our buddy in Pasadena and come get me wherever I am on
> > June 16 and then we'd drive to Vegas.  We'd party till the 19th or so and
> > then everyone would fly home, and me and the groom and our buddy would
> back
> > track and they would drop me off from where they picked me up.  I was
> > planning on flying back to VA on June 28/29; I have to be at the
> rehearsal
> > dinner on Friday July 1st.  I was thinking that after Vegas I would have
> a
> > ten or so days to hike, but I was very nervous about where I would be,
> how I
> > would get off, and it was just stressing me out logistically how to get
> to
> > Reno in time to fly back.  All this talk of a big snow year isn't helping
> > either.  But..getting off may work to my advantage - I'm thinking snow
> melt
> > here.  So, I was thinking instead of the groom dropping me off where he
> > picked me up after the few days in Vegas, I would ride back with him to
> LA
> > and fly home with him.  I'd be home for about two weeks and figured July
> 4th
> > I'd fly back to LA and then back track back to the trail hopefully with
> the
> > help of my buddy that lives in Pasadena and get dropped off at the same
> spot
> > from where I left to go to Vegas initially.  Now, I don't know exactly
> where
> > I'll be when the groom picks me up on June 16, but my hike starts on
> April
> > 26 or so that week and I'm sure I'll be at KM, but depending on the snow
> I
> > wouldn't know if I would be stuck there or not.
> >
> > Has snow stopped hikers dead in there tracks in the Sierras on previous
> > years?
> >
> > Worst case, if I left the trail at KM or somewhere around there and
> returned
> > on the first week of July, would I be too far behind the pack to make it
> to
> > Manning Park in time before more snow?
> >
> > I'm starting alone, I'm young and consider myself a strong hiker, so if I
> > have to hustle for the few weeks back I will, but I just wanted to know
> your
> > opinion if this is feasible.
> >
> > thanks, sorry for the ramble..
> >
> > best,
> >
> > J Pinedo
> >
> > On 9 December 2010 18:50, Halfmile <halfmile at pctmap.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> JP,
> >> I was tracking hiker locations this year based on journal entries. See
> >> this link.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnjydhFdh1E2dFE4dTVWUFMxQmhtTVUyZjFRRWlzanc&hl=en&authkey=CIqz5fgC#gid=0
> >>
> >> Check the tabs on the lower left for details of a few 2009, 2010
> >> hikers and when they made it to different places.
> >>
> >> It should give you a rough idea of other hikers time lines.
> >>
> >> No way for me to know how fast or slow you are, but if your semi-fast
> >> somewhere around Toulumne Meadows in Yosemite might be a good place to
> >> aim for (I'm assuming you need to exit late June). They have Amtrak
> >> and YARTS bus service so it would be easy transportation to or from
> >> the Modesto or San Francisco airports.
> >>
> >> Only problem I see is if your running late it would be difficult to
> >> exit early from the Sierra (and it's an amazing section of the trail
> >> you don't want to miss or have to rush through).
> >>
> >> If your running really late you could exit at Walker Pass and it would
> >> be pretty easy to get to Modesto via Bakersfield by a short hitch,
> >> then local bus, then Amtrak.
> >>
> >> Exiting east to 395 (Horseshoe Meadow, Kearsarge Pass, Reds Meadow,
> >> Sonora Pass, etc) you would give you the option of bus service to Reno
> >> but I it only runs 4 days a week. You can get bus service from Mammoth
> >> to Modesto so that might be an option if you exited E to 395 N of
> >> Walker Pass. I don't think most of the Easter Sierra community buses
> >> run on weekends, so keep that in mind.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://easternsierratransitauthority.com/wb/pages/bus-routes/crest--lone-pine-reno.php
> >>
> >> If you need more info, let me know. I'm pretty familiar with the PCT
> >> public transportation options in central CA.
> >>
> >> -Halfmile
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Joshua Pinedo <joshua.pinedo at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello friends,
> >> >
> >> > I'm currently planning my '11 thru hike and am trying to gauge how far
> >> > I'll
> >> > be/should be to manage getting off the trail, grabbing a flight,
> >> > attending a
> >> > wedding and returning to the trail with enough time to finish in
> Manning
> >> > Park.  I was thinking of starting towards the last few days of
> >> > April/first
> >> > few days of May, obviously I need firmer dates, but I'm still in the
> >> > preliminary stages of my planning.  One of my best friends is getting
> >> > married on July 2 weekend in Northern VA (my hometown), therefore the
> >> > plan
> >> > was to hike as far as I could, hitch into town, shower a few times so
> I
> >> > wouldn't crash the plane with my stench, and get on a flight a few
> days
> >> > before the wedding.  I figure I wouldn't have more than 6 days
> actually
> >> > in
> >> > Northern VA (not including flights, and rides to and fro trail heads)
> to
> >> > spend at home before I got on another flight to the port from which I
> >> > had
> >> > come to pick up where I left off.  I'd say maybe 9 days or so, total?
> >> > maybe
> >> > 8?  I also don't want to miss ADZPCTKO.  I have to coordinate this
> >> > pretty
> >> > well so I can buy plane tickets ahead of time, or at least would like
> to
> >> > try
> >> > to save money by buying them early, and if anything at least give me a
> >> > guaranteed flight home since I can't miss this for the world.  I
> figure
> >> > it
> >> > would also give me sort of a landmark to work towards.  Any advise or
> >> > guidance would be very much appreciated.
> >> >
> >> > best,
> >> >
> >> > JP
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