[pct-l] Hardest Climb

[Jeffrey Olson]

In 1971 I hiked part of the JMT and went out over Taboose Pass. It's 
close to a 6000' drop down scree, and then across desert to the highway 
- 100 degrees in late June.  20 miles, and six hours or so.  There's a 
creek where the dirt road hits the highway.  I took my Vasque Whitneys 
(5lbs of boots) off - my feet were almost twice their normal size, put 
them in cold creek water, and passed out for 45 minutes.  I couldn't 
imagine going up in those conditions!

Jeff, Laramie, WY


On 11/27/2016 9:28 AM, Gary Schenk wrote:
> Hardest climb? Connecting with the PCT over Taboose Pass. Second place would be getting to the PCT over Shepherd Pass. A couple of years ago we ran into a couple hiking out Shepherd to resupply!  Oopsie! :-)
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> Gary
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