[pct-l] What do you wish you had done before your thru?

[ambery-80243 at mypacks.net]

>While on your thru-hike, did you feel that following a predetermined path
> removed the sense of adventure? What significant elements of the unknown
> remain on the PCT?

I look at it this way.  If YOU have never been on that predetermined path before, then it is all an unknown element for you.  That alone feeds my own sense of adventure; it's all about my own experience no matter how many people have been there before me or how much is written about it.