[pct-l] accessing faq's and archives, budget qustions

[Austin Williams]

I set up a PCT-L archive search tool on planyourhike.com.

You can find it here:  http://planyourhike.com/search/


I know there is a bunch of controversy around the "postholer reformatting
the pct-l into a forum" situation (which I don't have a strong opinion about
either way... just to put that out there).  But this is just a simple
Google-powered search tool that will help people search the archives.

The "official" PCT-L search tool (http://www.backcountry.net/pctsearch.html)
isn't working right now, so I've set up a working one on my site until the
official one gets fixed.

It works better than the Google trick I mentioned earlier (you'll get more
results, and more *recent* results).

If people don't like this, or think it's somehow not ethical then just let
me know.  If I get enough complaints I'll take it down right away.  I'm just
trying to help.  :)

Happy hiking (and planning)

Austin Williams



www.PlanYourHike.com <http://www.planyourhike.com/>
Info on PCT Gear, Resupply Points, Maps, Thru hiking Movies, etc.



On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Kimberlie Dame
<kimberlie.dame at gmail.com>wrote:

> Extremely helpful! Thank you Austin!
>
> Kimberlie
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Austin Williams <
> austinwilliams123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested to see what answers you get to this question.
>> As far as budgeting, I can point you to a few resources:
>>
>>
>> A poll of PCT hikers asking how much a hike costs:
>> http://planyourhike.com/polls/
>> (The poll question about cost is in the second row from the top.  Just
>> click "Results")
>>
>> Financing your hike:  http://planyourhike.com/planning/financing.php
>>
>> Postholer has this to say about financing on their FAQ:
>> http://postholer.com/faq.php#Trail%20finance
>>
>> If I remember correctly this documentary may have talked about financing a
>> little bit in the begging:
>> http://planyourhike.com/media/walkingthewest.php
>>
>>
>> Finally, as far as searching the archives by subject rather than month,
>> this is how I do it:
>> I go to Google and type the following line into the search box:
>>
>> site:http://mailman.backcountry.net [whatever you want to search for
>> here]
>>
>> This will restrict Google's search to http://mailman.backcountry.net (the
>> site that archives the list).
>>
>> Hope it helps!
>>
>>
>> Austin Williams
>>
>>
>>
>> www.PlanYourHike.com <http://www.planyourhike.com/>
>> Info on PCT Gear, Resupply Points, Maps, Thru hiking Movies, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Kimberlie Dame <
>> kimberlie.dame at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there Beautiful People ~
>>> Hope I'm not interrupting an important squirmish :), but I am hoping
>>> someone
>>> can help me figure out how to access the archives in a way that is
>>> subject
>>> specific without doing it month by month.. Also, I remember a way while
>>> back
>>> that there was a compilation of faq's on this list? Could be wrong... I'm
>>> looking for information on realistic PCT budgeting and would like to see
>>> what's already been said without asking everyone to say it again, first
>>> ..
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> Kimberlie
>>> www.thenewnomads.com
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