[pct-l] Marmot

[marmot marmot]

Don’t know if they considered themselves a “class” but the hikers who did the trail in ‘76 were/are well known. They also knew of and saw others on the trail and kept track of where they were. Two of those were the famous Carolyn Burkhart(Ravensong), first woman to solo  thruhike the PCT and  Jean Ella( who went on to do the CDT in I think in ‘78 or  ‘79). Jean Ella hiked with a woman who’s last name was something like Stockton( hope someone else can remember her correct name). 
Marmot


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> On Jul 14, 2020, at 4:58 PM, Jeffrey Olson <jjolson58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What happened to the fellow who had a stove collection, walrus mustache, who lived in the northwest somewhere.  Can't remember his name.  He was active on the listserv 20 years ago...
> 
>>> On 7/14/2020 5:55 PM, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
>> The myth of the class of 1977 that I either heard or imagined was that it was
>> the first ad-hoc group of non-related though hikers.
>> I don't recall hearing of any other through hikers/riders on the PCT other than
>> individuals and couples prior to 1977.
>> I'm glad to hear that the myth had some substance to it but, as usual, the
>> reality was more complicated than the myth.
>> No doubt there were "classes" on the AT for decades before that, though I
>> don't know whether they were called that.
>> On the CDT I have no facts, but always supposed it was mostly individuals
>> and couples, but the class-of-1977 phenomenon might have already happened
>> there.     It sounds like the CDT still offers
>> the other pre-1977 PCT experiences here and there -
>> vague routes, too many routes, not enough routes, etc.
>> On the Camino Francés in Spain in 2003, people tended to self sort into
>> small groups that traveled at the same speed and had a common language.
>> If anybody thought to call them "classes" it would be all those who
>> arrived in Santiago on a particular day.
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