[pct-l] Old PCT Route

[Mary Kwart]

That's great--is there someone out there who is the PCT archivist?
Collecting old memorabilia for the PCT--sounds like fun. The PCT
experience would also lend itself to collecting oral histories of the
trail. I'm sure some budding social scientist will take up the call at
the kickoff one year. It would make a great PhD project.

--Fireweed  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Tibbits" 
To:"Mary Kwart" , , , 
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Sent:Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:30:44 -0800
Subject:Re: Old PCT Route

  You know, speaking about old memorabilia, I have an old Pacific
Crest Trail Club membership card from 1973 that is real wood!    Ned
Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education
www.mountaineducation.org      FROM: Mary Kwart [1]  SENT: Friday,
February 15, 2013 10:46 AM TO: blackbelthiker at gmail.com [2] ;
pct-l at backcountry.net [3] ; ned at mountaineducation.org [4] ;
carlito at gmail.com [5]  SUBJECT: Old PCT Route    

	I just located my 1974 PCT maps from the US Forest Service--the
California section is in booklet form with a light tan cover
(Ned--they may have been yellow at one time)--1/2 inch to the mile.
Completed PCT is shown as a solid black line and uncompleted as a
dashed line.The temporary route is shown with a red line--there is a
lot of it.   The Oregon/Washington sections are folded maps at about
5/16 inch to the mile. The Oregon/Washington maps have a narrative
"trail log" with cumulative mileage, location of camps--set up like a
primitive data book. They are quite entertaining to look at. 

	I wish I saved my old Wilderness Press guidebook from 1973--I
remember statements like, "Look up on the ridge and head for an
obvious old lodgepole pine". That was in the section north of Castle
Crags in California. I had to dig out a dendrology book and make sure
I knew what a lodgepole pine looked like. 

	Black Belt Hiker--I can scan in the areas you want to look at and
email them to you.

	--Fireweed

 

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