[pct-l] Weekend Hike (Tangentially PCT-Related)

[Jim Keener ( J J )]

Do the Skyline-to-the-Sea as a day hike. It's mostly downhill. Beautiful hike 

Jim Keener ( J J )

On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:24 PM, rcluster at comcast.net wrote:

> So, I don't know where the Skyline-to-Sea trail is but.... 
> 
> Do you have to camp in a campground? 
> 
> 
> Snowplow 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Gustafson" <tjg at tgustafson.com> 
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 4:15:20 PM 
> Subject: [pct-l] Weekend Hike (Tangentially PCT-Related) 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I was thinking I would hike the Skyline-to-Sea Trail this Thanksgiving 
> vacation, only to find out that all the camp sites along the trail are 
> closed for the Winter. 
> 
> The conversation I had with the ranger on the phone about this was a 
> bit comical. It went something like this: 
> 
> Ranger: "All the campgrounds are closed." 
> 
> Me: "So, the trail is closed then?" 
> 
> Ranger: "Well, you can hike the trail, you just can't camp." 
> 
> Me: "It's 30 miles." 
> 
> Ranger: "Well, yeah, you can't do it in one day." 
> 
> Me: "So, effectively, the trail is closed." 
> 
> Ranger: "Yeah, I guess you can't do it all in one day." 
> 
> Anyhow... 
> 
> So, now that my plans have been foiled, I was wondering if anyone 
> could recommend a good three-day-two-night hike somewhere reasonably 
> close to Santa Cruz County that I could tackle on 
> Friday/Saturday/Sunday this weekend? I think my fallback plan might 
> be to do some hiking at Henry Coe, but I was curious if anyone had any 
> other recommendations. 
> 
> How is this at all related to the PCT, you ask? Well, this was one of 
> the weekend training hikes I was planning for myself leading up to my 
> starting to section hike the PCT in the Spring. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any recommendations! 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tim Gustafson 
> tjg at tgustafson.com 
> http://tgustafson.com/ 
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