[pct-l] New Plan

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

If you are willing to come to California a nice trip is to hike in to  
Cottonwood lakes and camp there. Then on your middle day do a day  
hike to climb Mt. Langley. It's right next to Mt. Whitney and almost  
as high. On your last day return home. It's not very long to  
Cottonwood Lakes and this lets your weaker hiker decide whether or  
not to do the big mountain climb on the middle day or not.

Perhaps there are similar trips you could do in Washington or  
Northern Oregon if California is too far away. Perhaps you could hike  
up the Eagle Creek trail and make seeing the waterfall the goal for  
the weaker person. That'll be a tough climb for almost anybody, but  
you can select a base camp and then the stronger ones can do a day  
hike on the middle day up to see Mt. Hood or something.

Something similar could probably be done with Goat Rocks, too. It's  
really pretty up there.


On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

>
> Ok, so my 3 friends and I are open to suggestions for a 40-60 mile  
> stretch
> of the PCT to be done in mid July. Scenery and moderate difficulty  
> level
> are optimal as one of our 3 is not the strongest hiker. We want to  
> set up
> camp the night before and do a morning start and spend 3 full days  
> hiking.
> We need to start and end near a town so we can be dropped off and  
> picked
> up.
>
> Thanks!!
> Kim