[pct-l] PCT thru timing for 2012

[Jeffrey Olson]

It is possible to leave Mexico in June and complete the trail before the 
snows hit in Washington.  Last year Hummingbird did it.  I was hiking 
around the 1000 mile mark along Falls Creek in 1994 and met a guy who 
read Jardine's book, got himself set up as Jardine recommended, and was 
passing hikers who had started six weeks before him.  Both were 
dedicated hikers.  Neither spent long jabbering...

Neither of them were at all social.  They eschewed others actually.  It 
would take a pretty unique personality to find and maintain the 
motivation to finish in four months or less.

Jeffrey Olson
Santa Rosa, CA