[pct-l] alternate routes

[csiechert@hotmail.com (Carl Siechert)]

Say, that sounds awfully similar to the "temporary" route we followed in
1977. Although it parallels Hwy 14 for about 20 miles, it's not altogether
unscenic. We saw a desert tortoise, desert Christmas tree, coreopsis, and
lots of other cool flowers along there.

And during lunch at a cattle pond up in Jawbone Canyon, a rustler pulled up
in a VW bus and asked if we'd help him carry out some cattle. We declined.

--Carl Siechert
  1977 Kelty Kid


----- Original Message -----
From: "David O" <o123david@hotmail.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: [pct-l] alternate routes


> Karen Berger describes an alternate route starting 20 miles after Agua
Dulce
> near Lake Hughes. You go north on 170th Street to the Los Angeles
Aqueduct,
> follow the aqueduct to within 3 miles of Mojave where you resupply,
continue
> past Mojave on the aqueduct to Jawbone Canyon, and then follow the canyon
to
> join the PCT 34.7 miles north of highway 58.
> It's around 30 miles shorter than the official route.
> How would this compare with the official route?
> Any other recommended detours?
>
>
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