[pct-l] Should the date of the PCT days at Cascade Locks be changed?

[Andrea Dinsmore]

 PCT Days is one week into September. Then 2 more weeks to Stevens....then
2 more weeks, depending if there's a big snow dump, to the Canadian border.
That puts you at the border in October. Unless you hang at Snoqualmie or
Stevens or Stehekin. All you guys that say that any time in October is just
fine......not on a high snow year. Timing is a personal preference. I
pissed off a lot of hikers this year trying to explain and prepare them for
the hassles they were walking into. If you have a timing issue for whatever
reason or don't care to buy extra winter gear then I would suggest be here
a little sooner. The nice weather  timing of 5-6 days from Stevens to
Stehekin is very different when you are in 3' of snow. Same with Stehekin
to the border. It's up to you. I would be reading the journals for the late
hikers from this year. What they did was rough and logistics was a pain in
the rear. Between our place and the Cascadia Inn up in Skykomish, we had
130 hikers by September 1st. Thrus and section hikers. Our total count for
the year was 388. Cascadia total count was 60. We both are up 15-20 % each
year.

PCT MOM


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Rob Langsdorf <sdscpcts at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>     I have been wondering what the impact of having the PCT days event at
> Cascade Locks on the weekend after Labor Day weekend may have had on
> encouraging PCT hikers to be late in reaching the boarder?
>
>     One post said, "Taka attended the PCT Days, and then headed towards
> the Canadian border."
>
>     He was the Japanese hiker who was stuck at Milk Creek this year due to
> heavy snows. I wonder how many other hikers were stopped or delayed by the
> snow this year because they went to the PCT days event and then tried to
> hike to Canada.
>
>     What if the PCT days were held the week before Labor Day? Would this
> encourage hikers to either go faster or to skip north to the locks, do the
> hike to Canada and then flip back to pick up the segments that they had
> missed?
>
>      Mataguay Connector Rob
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