[pct-l] Advise needed for yo-yo hike

[Ned Tibbits]

Doublecross!

If you wait a couple of weeks, you can meet up with and attend a Mountain 
Education Snow Skills course running from Monument 78 on June 15 to Rainy 
Pass on the 22nd! We will be teaching all the SoBo thrus who can attend the 
course how to deal with all the nasty, steep snow up there to get them 
through safe!

In reality, this is still speculation until we have enough students join in, 
but we're considering running this Snow Advanced Course 4 times, once every 
two weeks, from a Harts Pass start: June 13, June 27, July 11, and July 
25th.



Ned Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education
www.mountaineducation.org
-----Original Message----- 
From: Rob L
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 7:12 PM
To: Daniel Giddings
Cc: pct list serve
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Advise needed for yo-yo hike

So Doublecross,

      Do you plan to use snowshoes or skis to cross Washington?

Daniel Giddings <backofthebarnbikes at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hey all,
>Due to outside life issues I'm considering a yo-yo this year instead of a 
>straight thru-hike.
>The plan would be to start at Warner Springs with a few others, hike South 
>to the Kick Off, get back to WS, hike to Kennedy Meadows, then get up to 
>Manning Park to start Southbound. Following is an abridged, estimated 
>timeline using Craig's PCT planner:
>Manning Park 5/30; Snoqualmie 6/12; Bend 6/30; Crater Lake 7/8;
>Etna 7/18; Truckee 8/8; Bridgeport 8/15; KM 8/31.
>Theoretically I would be missing the worst of the bloodsuckers in WA (while 
>getting more rain?), missing the snow in the Sierras (but enduring peak 
>backpacker season) and simplifying gear swap-out between So-Cal, the rest 
>of the trail and later bear canister areas.
>Specific questions: are trail angels and trail services operating that 
>early in WA and that late in Central CA? Are there any serious difficulties 
>using NoBo oriented data for a SoBo hike? Any info/comments at all would be 
>helpful.
>-Doublecross
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