[pct-l] hope you weren't hoping for a hitch on Ebbetts Pass on Saturday!

[gary at hbfun.org]

Fun fact: one of the founders of the Death Ride, Wayne Martin, is also 
one of the first, and he says the first, to complete a thruhike of the 
PCT.


On 2022-07-20 05:52, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
> Did you know about this?
> 
> http://www.ebbettspassadventures.com/events/death_ride.html
> 
> I didn't.   Caltrans in Sacramento didn't.   I checked the morning of 
> July 16
> for highway conditions on Highway 4 on the Caltrans website - nothing 
> listed.
> Then when I got to Angels Camp, a big orange sign -
> 
> Ebbetts Pass Closed
> at Lake Alpine
> Sat July 16, 2022
> Detour via 49/88/89
> 
> So I had to make a quick replan of my section J adventure.
> Separate email follows about that.
> 
> Maybe this needs to be on the PCTA website since it seems to be annual.
> 
> A couple of days later, the support tents and portapotties were still 
> set up
> along Hwy 4.
> 
> This event is limited to the first 3000 participants.    PCTA through 
> hiking
> is a much smaller deal!   But there were two or three dozen through 
> hikers
> every day on the trail, even though it's a bit late by traditional 
> reckoning
> for north bound through hikers.   Cancelling ADZPCTKO and quotas on 
> through
> hiking permits has flattened the traditional wave I guess.
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