[pct-l] Beginner experience level

[gary_schenk at verizon.net]

 When backpacking, you're out on your own left to your own devices. You're traveling to places few folks ever get to, you'll be at high lakes and crossing passes with little or no trail. You'll not see anyone. You will see wildlife.

On the PCT, you're on a backcountry freeway. You'll run into dozens of people each day. Some on motorbikes. When you get to your planned camp site, you might even think you're at Tuolumne Meadows, there's so many camped there. Every few days you're eating hamburgers and drinking beer and sleeping in a bed. Etc.

Gary
 

On 03/11/13, JPL wrote:

what's the difference between "backpacking" and "hiking with some sleeping 
thrown in"?

-----Original Message----- 
From: gary_schenk at verizon.net
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:17 PM
To: diane at santabarbarahikes.com ; pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Beginner experience level

Very observant and well put.


On 03/07/13, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes wrote:

...but I was surprised by the PCT because in many ways, hiking
the PCT is not really backpacking. It's something different from
that. More like hiking with some sleeping thrown in and generally a
tour of the small-town and wilderness American West.
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