[pct-l] The 2018 permits season opens on November 1, 2017. [ TODAY ]

[Jim & Jane Moody]

But doesn't the PCTA thru-hiking permit substitute for all the individual permits required by separate fed & state areas? It's not entirely superfluous, even if optional. I guess the main goal of the quota system is to try and spread out the bulge of hikers. 
Mango 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Brick Robbins" <brick at brickrobbins.com> 
To: "Paint YW" <paintyourwagonhikes at gmail.com> 
Cc: "Pct-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 9:14:51 PM 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] The 2018 permits season opens on November 1, 2017. [ TODAY ] 

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Paint YW <paintyourwagonhikes at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Thank you for explaining the ins and outs of the permit process in the 
> first 700 miles or so. You do it each year, right around the time we apply 
> for permits, providing a check and balance of sorts, on the overall permit 
> requirements. [ You rebel ] 

The new permit quota system is fairly recent and only started with 
"Wild" and is being mis represented to the thru hiker community as a 
requirement. I was at least tangentially involved in the the creation 
of the PCTA thru hiker permit many years ago, and at that time it was 
seen as way to resolve a dispute between Region 5 and Region 6 of the 
USFS. I feel the need to let people know the truth. 

The way it is being used now is simply wrong, and is not backed up by 
law. But the PCTA is not a government organization and they can do 
what they want. 

If you want to get a permit because "it represents in your goal to 
hike the PCT" then go for it. But someone aught not to give up their 
desire to thru hike simply because they didn't navigate the PCTA s 
system. 
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