[pct-l] Trail Update: Spanish Peak to Belden.

[Will M]

Thanks for the update.  I will be getting on trail north of Chester in
three weeks.

Jalan Jalan


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:15 PM, -Mountain Goat- <themtgoat at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Saturday I hiked round trip from Belden to Spanish peak and back.
>
> I saw dainty Fingers, who appears to be one of the first through hikers
> this year.
> He said he started April 6th? and this is only about 2 months in, and he
> is already passing Belden?
> He must be hiking about 180 miles a week! Wow, he can move.
>
> Back to the trail update.
> Almost all snow is melted except a few patches you can see off in the
> distance from the trail (Mostly near Mt Pleasant). The mosquitoes presented
> a Moderately miserable experience in the evening, and I found out they had
> no problem keeping up with my slightly faster the 3mph pace. (These are
> really small kind).
>
> There seemed to be a fairly good size bug population, probably since the
> snow just finished melting, and the streams, and still flowing, if not on
> the small side. Hopefully in the next several weeks, the wave of hikers can
> come through and enjoy the water while it lasts.
>
> There are over a dozen downed trees in this 15 mile section, but fairly
> spread out.
> Anyone doing trail maintenance, please contact me, and I can give aprox
> locations, and some photo's
> of the woody based obstacles.  However, nothing that a hiker can't walk
> around, Jump over, or duck under.
>
> -Mountain Goat-
> PCT 2005
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