[pct-l] Re: Northern Washington Cascades

[HShires@aol.com]

At least in my case, I have to disagree with Eric on this one.  I wrote 
MORE details as the trip went on (www.jps.net/hshires/pcthike) and most 
definitely sang the praises of WA including the N. Cascades.  Perhaps 
part of the problem is the WA weather which can be pretty dicey though 
was thankfully pretty good this year for folks finishing before the last 
week in September.  There's no doubt that the business of completing the 
trail is first on most people's minds but written or not, the N. Cascades 
are exceptionally beautiful and are fabulous way to to end the trip.  

Henry Shires

>Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:45:12 -0800
>From: "Eric Lee (Office)" <elee@MICROSOFT.com>
>Subject: RE: [pct-l] Portions of the PCT
>
>ROYROBIN wrote:
>>
>Most Under-Appreciated:  Northern Washington Cascades.
>>
>
>I certainly agree with this, since I live in the Seattle area and I'm
>partial to my neck of the woods.  :-)
>
>Being under-appreciated is the result of being at the end of the the trail,
>I guess.  I've read several trail journals that have been posted to the web,
>and it seems like all of them start out in Section A with painstaking detail
>of every event, right down to how many blisters the hikers had on their feet
>and what they ate for dinner each night.  They go on at great length about
>the beauty of the desert scenery and the character of the trail.  Of course,
>as the journal goes on the details get more and more sketchy as the hiker
>settles down to the arduous business of long-distance hiking.  By the time
>they get out of California, their journals generally read like this: "August
>4th, entered Oregon.  August 27th, entered Washington.  September 20th,
>thank God I'm done."  Hey, wait - where's all the cool details about the
>Northern Washington Cascades?  Didn't you see *anything*?  Sigh.  Oh well.
>:-)
>
>Eric
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