[pct-l] Why California?s Trails Are Disappearing From Our Maps

[Diane Soini]

Yes, it's that hard to follow. You certainly cannot get to the Sisquoc 
from Hurricane Deck anymore. (I'm assuming you used the Big Bend trail, 
which is long gone.) It has gotten better now and then, here and there, 
thanks to volunteers, but volunteers can only do so much. Chaparral is 
determined stuff. This is why parts of Section B on the PCT are pretty 
overgrown.

On 01/28/2014 02:58 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
> Hurricane Deck has gotten that hard to follow?  Wow, it was difficult 
> in 1965 when we spent two completely dry days up there and finally 
> used one of the creek drainages down to the Sisquoc River just to get 
> off it.  Heard my first mountain lion screams in the night as it 
> circled our camp and saw the fresh prints the next day.  Scary, as 
> they sound so human.  Like a woman in terrible distress.  But we did 
> see condors in the wild.  That is an amazingly wild wilderness area 
> and beautiful!
>
> Shroomer
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Diane Soini <dianesoini at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dianesoini at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I hiked in that section in 2008 and 2009. Some parts were difficult
>     to follow because of cattle, but most of it seemed like a super
>     highway to me. But like Terry said, the place where we normally hike
>     (the Los Padres Forest) the trails are so bad that the PCT is like
>     walking down the freeway in comparison. I was surprised when people
>     thought the PCT was hard to follow at times.
>
>     I like to tell people that 10 miles on our local trails is like 20
>     miles on the PCT and 5 miles on Hurricane Deck is like 20 miles on
>     the PCT.
>
>     Anyway, it's very true that the trails are disappearing from the map.
>     It's too bad, too, because we have so many people who need work and
>     so much work to do. You'd think we could put the two together like we
>     did back in the last Depression.
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