[pct-l] SOBO

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, TrailHacker,

I think you’re correct.  The conventional terminology seems to be, “Up
North, down South, out West, and back East”.   A 1:24,000 scale globe would
be a real hoot.

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> Mike Chapman <altathunder76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> I remember a journal from last season that ended in sadness and
> gloom,it read "going SoBo for time purposes"  I then thought to
> myself,didnt the record get beat going NoBo? Did these people think
> that SoBo meant walking downhill to mexico?
> >
>
> I checked my globe today. Going SOBO you start at the top of the globe in
> Canada and kind of glissade down to Mexico which is much lower on the globe.
> Lots of talk on the list about maps but a globe includes the curvature of
> the earth which many thru-hikers ignore. Now if I can just get my globe to
> double as a bear canister, I'll be set!
>
> TrailHacker
>
> "When my feet hurt, I can't think straight"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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