[pct-l] Successful Thruhike with Dog

[Edward Anderson]

Do those with dogs dig cat holes to bury their dog's poop well away from water sources near popular camp locations? Rain will wash it into water sources. Fecal material from dogs is as rich in pathogens as is human poop - even more than cattle poop. This is not true of horse manure. Check it out.

MendoRider




________________________________
 From: Devon Taig <devon.taig at gmail.com>
To: Kelly Hermanson <kelly.hermanson at gmail.com> 
Cc: Pct-L at backcountry.net 
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Successful Thruhike with Dog
 
For clarification, dogs most certainly *are *allowed in almost all
federally designated wilderness areas and are in quite common sites out
there too (http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sierra/home/?cid=stelprdb5299243)
.  They are in fact allowed in some of the National Parks on the Pacific
Crest Trail as well.  Most notably Rainier National Park
http://www.nps.gov/mora/faqs.htm  and North Cascades National Park
http://www.nps.gov/noca/planyourvisit/pets.htm. Crater Lake National Park
reported to me in July that the are considering revising their policy to be
in accord with the parks to their north (my personal recommendation was to
open the lower equestrian route and not the rim route to dogs).  There are
some State parks (Burney Falls for example in California) that ban dogs
outright.
Also, I would like to suggest that when someone asks a question in which
they explicitly state that they don't wish to open a ginormous debate about
whether something is a good idea or not (and specifically requests
responses to be sent to them rather than the entire PCT-L) that we kindly
respect that.  Obviously dogs on the trail is a very controversial topic.
It's been hashed and rehashed on this forum too many times to count. I
have about as much chance of convincing the anti-dog crowd that my idea is
better than theirs as Nancy Pelosi does of convincing Rush Limbaugh to
advocate for same-sex marriage.  So rather than using (or abusing) this
forum as a place to make people feel bad about each other, less use it to
share real and useful information about the PCT.

River



On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:06 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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