[pct-l] Western Section R

[JimLBanks at verizon.net]

David, the trail conditions you describe are becoming more and more common
from one end of the trail to the other.  The original purpose of the PCTA
was to maintain the trail.  However,  the PCTA has become an organization
more concerned with "social justice" and sponsoring a hiker who writes on
the PCTA blog that the trail itself was built "on racist ideologies and
practices."  The PCTA gets almost $1 million a year from the US Forest
Service to maintain the trail, but spends its money on more and more staff
(none of which actually do trail maintenance as their job), fancy offices,
and racial sensitivity training for the staff.  The trail maintenance
volunteers are out there busting their asses working on the trail, but there
are just not enough volunteers to get the job done, especially with all the
damage done to the trail in the last 10 years or so from so many huge
devasting fires.

 

I-Beam