[pct-l] Trail section in Goat Rocks being rebuilt

[linsey]

Dear Betty, 

Your photos are stunning and report entertaining and well written, but if I am to understand correctly, the official route has been rerouted to the old equestrian route and the REAL trail is no longer that but an alternate instead?!?  

Thank you so much for your work, as the equestrian route was in terrible shape, but if the official route has changed I will mourn its loss for the rest of my life.   Also, I suspect any future maintenance of the original Goat Rocks route will have very low, if any priority.   The Goat Rocks hiker route was a major highlight for me each of the four times I've hiked it, not to mention the equestrian route is plagued by snow much longer...

All this PCT-L banter about inequitable speed record attempts reminds me that future records using the equestrian route will have a huge speed advantage over the REAL Hiker Route. 

Also, the title of your post should have read "Trail section in Goat Rocks Being Rerouted"...

Mournfully, Lollygag


 




[pct-l] Trail section in Goat Rocks being rebuilt
Betty Wheeler bettywheeler at gmail.com 
Sat Aug 24 15:35:19 CDT 2013
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Hi, Bill & list:
I've started a photo journal of the first week of this work, but still have
some photos to add (including photos of the old sign showing stock and
hiker routes, and the new sign showing 'PCT Alternate - Old Snowy,' and
photos of the trail chopped in the snow). Bill, let me know if I
misidentified you in the last photo that's up right now -- everyone's head
is tilted down, so my IDs could be off.
The journal is here: http://packwoodglacier.wordpress.com/ On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:04 PM, William Canavan <wecanavan at gmail.com>wrote: >The trail section across the scree slope and the remnants of the Packwood >Glacier is being rebuilt and a wide ledge has been chopped across the steep >remaining ice.  Although the work is going to continue for another three >weeks the Packwood Glacier section is now easily crossed and avoids the >detour that goes up and around the glacier.  The trail sign at the junction >of the detour has been changed to show the trail up and around as the >'Alternate Rt'.  Thank you PCTA and US Forest Service for making this >happen! >>Little Brown >_______________________________________________