[pct-l] Successful Thruhike with Dog

[Jackie McDonnell]

The GREAT thing about thru-hiking with a dog is that it can carry your gun,
your bear canister, and your water through the desert.

But even better --- the dog is perfectly capable of letting you know when
it is too tired to walk any farther, when it needs to stop and tank up on
water, and when it needs to take a zero day.

Since your dog speaks English, it can tell you when its paws are sore from
walking mile after mile after mile on the hot desert sand in California or
on the sharp lava rock in Oregon.

Your dog has put a lot of thought into this thru-hike.  It won't be
all-of-a-sudden thrown into walking 20+miles a day, because it has trained
and is mentally and physically prepared for a thru-hike.  Best of all, it
certainly will tell you when it wants to stop.  It will NOT follow you
loyally day after day after day, until it is physically wiped out and its
paws are raw.  No, no, no, that won't happen to YOUR dog.  YOUR dog is
prepared for this.  YOU wouldn't do anything to harm your dog.

Live long and prosper.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Kelly Hermanson
<kelly.hermanson at gmail.com>wrote:

> In addition to National Parks, our beloved furried friends are not allowed
> in protected Wilderness areas either.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Judson Brown <judsonwb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Whether it's good or bad is a bit of a moot point; it's illegal. You
> cannot
> > hike in national parks with a dog. And since significant portions of the
> > PCT- including much of the best parts of the Sierras- pass through these
> > parks, no one will ever do a through-hike of the PCT with a dog as long
> as
> > these regulations are in place. There are significant portions you could
> > hike with a dog, and many people have. For the parts passing through
> parks,
> > you'd have to either skip them, or reroute extensively.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Stefan Rinnert <
> > stefanrinnert at googlemail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I don't want to start a discussion whether this is good or bad. I am
> > pretty
> > > well aware about the pros, cons and risks of hiking with a dog. I just
> > want
> > > to know if there are people who have done a thruhike of the PCT with
> > their
> > > dog and succeeded.
> > > I would be very interested in how they did it. Any contact off the list
> > in
> > > this regard is welcome.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Stefan
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