[pct-l] Dowse the Flames. Hike and Share your stories.

[Marcia Powers <gottawalk@xxxxxxxxxxx> (Marcia Powers)]

David,

We hike the Ohlone Trail, too. I called that my first 30 miler and set Mt.
Whitney as a 22 mile (and, I think, 6600' elevation gain) day hike as my
next goal. Ken and a neighbor hiked with me and we all three made it up and
down. As we took a break at Trail Crest and looked east out over the
incredible Hitchcock and Guitar lakes Ken said I could summit Mt. Whitney
from that side if I were willing to backpack several days. I had never been
backpacking, but set the JMT as my goal and hiked it southbound 11 months
later. While hiking the JMT I saw where the PCT diverged from the JMT and
was hooked. Twenty months later we started our PCT thru hike.

All of this kind of fits Amigo's setting and trying bigger, higher and
farther goals. That is what makes life interesting and fun

Marcia
GottaWalk

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From: "David hiking PCNST in bits" <pcnst2@oakapple.net>
To: <CMountainDave@aol.com>; <jmertes@verizon.net>; <lukeahoy@yahoo.com>
Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Dowse the Flames. Hike and Share your stories.


> << Just a historical note.  Back about 1960 when JFK was around, he was
> famous for
> his 50 mile day hikes. I never tried it.

I got the 50 mile hike bug a couple of administrations later, summer of
1971,
but I was
thinking of the Kennedys when I hitched out to Point of Rocks, MD with the
idea of walking back 50 miles to Washington DC where I lived at the time,
along the almost-flat C&O Canal.    This was even then a well-known foot
and bike trail from DC to Harpers Ferry.

I got halfway back (I've forgotten the name of the place),
couldn't walk any more
due to a big blister on the heel of my heavy mountaineering boots, slept
on a picnic table - not exactly slept, perhaps spent several unhappy hours
would be more accurate - the weather was fair - and hitched back home the
next
morning.   Sort of a fiasco, in one sense, but the longest hike I made in
one day until fairly recently when I started doing the Ohlone Wilderness
in one day which is 28-30 miles.


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