[pct-l] PCT Manning Park to Cascade Locks - entering the USA

[m.karon@xxxxxxxxx (m.karon@xxxxxxxxx)]

You really don't want to know. This was covered last year too and it "ain't"
pretty.

Officially, you can not enter the USA via the PCT because you are suppose to go
through immigration and get any entry permit - and there isn't a check point on
the PCT. So, there is NO legal way for a non-US citizen to enter the the USA
from Canada. You can't go to a check station somewhere else. It has to be right
there.

When you enter the USA you are suppose to get the permit. When you leave you
are suppose to surrender it. So, if you enter the USA by flying into Seattle,
you would get an entry permit there. When you get a bus to Canada, you are
suppose to surrender the permit at the border. If you fly directly to Canada,
you will have no USA permit at all. Are these permits checked? Don't know.

So what to do? Skipping the section is the only legal way. Enter somewhere else
at a border crossing, get to the PCT in the US, hike to the Canadian border and
then return.

Or just do it and presume you won't get caught.

Sorry, that is the information I have received.

--
Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@attbi.com
> August 1 is a great start date and David's had lots of advice about buses
> out of Cascade Locks, but does anyone know what a non-U.S. citizen needs to
> do when crossing the border from Canada on foot? It could be complicated if
> he arrives in Canada when he comes to North America. Will he need to get off
> the trail at Harts Pass and check in with US immigration? (I don't think
> they have an office in Mazama...)
>
> Tom Griffin
> Seattle
> PCT Pages: http://staff.washington.edu/griffin/pct.html
>
> >> From: david.booth@centrelink.gov.au
> >> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:55:57 +1000
> >> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> >> Subject: [pct-l] PCT Manning Park to Cascade Locks
> >>
> >> My name is David Booth (notrailname). I am joining the list today. I am
> >> from Australia and have done a few l solo walks here in Australia.and I am
> >> planning to walk NS from Manning Park to Cascade Locks.
> >> I would appreciate any advice about a suitable date to start this year. I

> >> was planning to start around first week in August. Also any advice re
> >> transport from Cascade locks back to civilisation?
> >> best regards
> >> David Booth
> >>
>
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