[pct-l] Marmot

[David Hough reading PCT-L]

> We have gone back in a few places to revisit the '70s route. Makes for a
nice loop trip: Go one way on current PCT, one way on old route.

Another project (armchair in my case) - hiking the pre-PCT -
follow what's left of 
the CRHT 

https://pcnst.oakapple.net/crht/past.gif

as much as possible from the border up to the Kern basin and into
Sequoia to meet the JMT, then follow the TYT from Tuolumne to Tahoe,
then from Mushroom Rock to go east of Shasta to Klamath Falls, and then
up the Lake of the Woods - and then follow the Oregon Skyline Trail
and the Cascade Crest Trail to the border.

Or to get really crazy, leave the trail at Webber Peak and follow the actual
Pacific crest until you link up with the CDT somewhere around the Tetons.
In addition to really major water challenges, worse than
the Mushroom Rock to Klamath Falls adventure, 
the real Pacific Crest hasn't got many resupply options.

Instead,
around 1972 in graduate school I worked out a route on Forest Service maps
and USGS topos that covered the PCT route as well as I could determine
from a Forest Service brochure

https://pcnst.oakapple.net/usfs/1971-ca/

and included side trips to climb all the major mountains along the way.
Pretty unrealistic.

But rather than joining the class of 1977, which I didn't even know about
until 2001, when I got out of graduate school I abandoned all those dreams 
and went to work to pay off my education, then continued to pay off my house,
then continued to pay off my chilren.     I finally got to hike the whole
PCT in bits and pieces over 2001-2013 - inspired by a dinner table conversation
at May Lake High Sierra Camp on September 9, 2000.

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, 
perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged 
man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

None of this is meant as advice to youth.     
But if you come to a fork in the road, take it.