Re: [pct-l] ALL 3

["Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@hotmail.com>]

>Most of the things that some people currently think are impossible,
>have already been done...

I concur. And just to make it clear, I didn't write what is included in the 
excerpt following this note. My original response to that excerpt is echoed 
by your thoughts exactly.

Still, for anyone determined enough to attempt all three in a year, and who 
intends to plan well enough to make it feasible, I maintain that the AT 
portion needs to occur during the off-season. Save it for last, since it 
really is least. No one ever claimed the AT to be easy, but novices have 
successfully travelled almost every inch of it in all seasons. The High 
Sierra PCT and northern Rockies CDT are a different story, I would think.

I don't know about higher elevation conditions, but right now the valleys 
here in northern NH are mostly clear of snow. It's still early April, and 
the 4-month thru-hiker passing through bound for Katahdin might be in luck. 
(and mud)

- Blisterfree


>>>If you start at the Mexican border [CDT thru-hike] on 1 April,
>>>you'd probably have to
>>>road walk southern Colorado (probably most of Colorado) even in a light
>>>snow year.  The snowpack normally doesn't clear in southern Colorado
>>>until at least mid June.  Then you'd probably hit more snow in the Winds
>>>and, if you're lucky, only the end of the snow in northern Montana in
>>>July.  That's either a lot of snowshoeing or a lot of roadwalking.  That
>>>doesn't bode well for doing a 4 month hike.
>

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