[pct-l] Impact of WILD on PCT numbers

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Thanks, Shroomer.  Based on the good holiday season sales of A Thru-Hiker's Heart (better get it if you haven't read it yet!!  on Amazon), there is more interest this year in hiking the PCT.  The economy is still flabby and who knows how the snow will be.  But my intuition is more people, but not hoards of them. 

IMHO, No Way Ray's book is way better than WILD for portraying the PCT experience. ;-)  
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
To: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
Cc: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2013 7:15 am
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Impact of WILD on PCT numbers


Books can have a remarkable influence on people.  It was reading "A Hiker's
eart", No Way Ray's posthumous book that finally got me out to hike the
CT in its entirety.  I agree that the hike is not the center of Cheryl's
ook, which is a story of her own personal redemption, but the trail is the
ehicle for that change.  Since reading that book, several friends who have
ooked on a bit quizzically at my long hikes have now put it on their
ucket lists.  I'll bet there are many thousands more out there who've done
he same thing.  If just a fraction actually start, it could still be a
izable increase.
Shroomer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
iane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
> I went to hear her read excerpts from her book and do a book signing.
 It seemed to me from the things she said that basically out west, she
 talks a lot more about the trail because more people know about
 hiking-related things but almost anywhere else she goes, nobody is
 interested in the trail. And overall, MOST people are interested in
 the relationship part of the book and consider the trail part to be
 more like a vehicle to tell the story of getting over her mom's
 death, which indeed it is. Several people who got up to ask questions
 after her talk were very interested in one day hiking the trail or
 they were currently working on sections. I didn't get a sense that
 overwhelmingly everybody wanted to rush out and hike the PCT. Just as
 many or more people got up to ask questions about details in the book
 regarding her relationship with her mother or to ask about how to be
 a writer.

 On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:59 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

 > From: Lindsey Sommer <lgsommer at gmail.com>
 > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Impact of WILD on PCT numbers
 >
 > I remember there was several threads discussing this last year
 > (maybe?) and
 > I think that we concluded that it COULD increase the number of people
 > starting in socal. But then we also concluded that reading a book
 > doesn't
 > mean you can hike the entire trail (because it's really hard), so
 > there
 > could also be more people dropping out.
 >
 > Should be interesting this year to compare the numbers though.
 >
 >
 > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Paul Mitchell <paul at bluebrain.ca>
 > wrote:
 >
 >> I'm wondering if the popularity of "WILD" has translated into
 >> increased
 >> numbers of hikers on the PCT.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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