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hey, I was wondering if anyone has a training program that they use to get ready for a hike.

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1. A new subscriber and a question (roni h)
2. Hiking Next Year (Karen Borski)
3. What exactly is going on at Kennedy Meadows on June 12th?
Thanks.. (Scott Herriott)
4. Walkin' Time (StoneDancer1@aol.com)
5. Re: Hiking Next Year (jape)
6. Re: Hiking Next Year (JD Schaefer)
7. Re: A new subscriber and a question (dude)
8. Re: A new subscriber and a question (JD Schaefer)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:10:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: roni h 
Subject: [pct-l] A new subscriber and a question
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Hi,


I have just subscribed to the pct-l so I guess I should write a bit about myself before I start bombarding you with questions (actually, one question). My name is Roni and I’m an Israeli currently thruhiking the P.C.T.

You might have heard my name (usually accompanied by the words 'mad', 'crazy', etc.) due to three main reasons:



1) I hiked the A.T. last winter - not one of my smartest decisions in life...


2) I’m known for the fact that honey buns are a main part of my hiking diet - I’ve eaten more than 1500 honeybuns this last year...


3) (The title I’m proud the most) - I am the king of zero days on the A.T. including the remarkable achievement of 19(!) consecutive zero days in one shelter - a record that hopefully won’t be broken in my lifetime.

I am now in Agua Dulce (450 miles from Mexico) and I have one problem you might be able to help me with:

It appears that the northern California part of the guide book won’t be published before I reach northern California - probably in less than a month (please correct me if I’m wrong).


This means that the only guide book available for that section will be the old volume number one of the P.C.T. guidebook. Unfortunately, it seems that no one sells it any more. As I’m really enjoying reading the superb southern California guidebook I do not want to hike 800 miles without such a guide.


If any one of you knows where I can find the out-of-print northern California P.C.T. guide book, or alternatively, how I can obtain the new guidebook I would be most thankful if you e-mail me to the address "roni_h3000@yahoo.com" .

And if anyone is interested in reading my infrequent entries about the P.C.T. you can find them in "www.trailjournals.com/roni/

Thanks,

Roni 





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The site Carl gave is for a small public zoo near the Bear Mountain ski
area. I thought the cages south of Big Bear were something else.
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> > Subject: [pct-l] Does anyone know the full name of...
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> > ..the guy who has all the caged animals just off the
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Karen Borski 
Subject: [pct-l] Hiking Next Year
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Hi,

I saw the post collecting names of hikers for next
year. I'm planning a nobo thru-hike starting April
'04. I tried to go this year, but couldn't get it
together. Next year is a done deal, as I've already
informed my employer and will sell the house in the
fall. I don't recommend informing THE MAN so early,
but conditions were OK for doing so where I work.

Nocona is the trail name. Karen Borski the societal
one.

I'm planning to follow the list all year, but
sometimes I post and never get any answers or
responses. I don't know if it is because I'm get the
digest version and don't check mail every day, so I
tend to fall behind the posts. But I'll be tied in
and listening for any news, nonetheless. 

Since I've already hiked SoCal before, I am looking
forward to starting off this time with familiarity
with the trail and no fear of "the terrible desert." 
Also, in order to lessen newbie stress on the body,
I'm planning either a month-long jaunt on the AT just
before the PCT or an early PCT start. The early PCT
start means beginning on April 10 and feeling free to
hike only 10-mile days for the first month. I know
there would probably be cold, maybe snowy, weather in
the Lagunas and San Jacinto range...but I could
prepare for that in advance. I could take off whole
days early on and avoid the foot and leg problems that
seemed rampant to me on my first attempt. Almost
every hiker I met in Tehachapi was holed up with
either bad blisters or leg/foot injuries. We were all
moving along at 20 miles a day fairly early in the
hike. The AT grants you the time to start slow, but
you don't normally have that luxury on the PCT with a
late April start. Anybody who has experience
beginning a thru-hike in early April, I would love to
hear about it.

Look forward to seeing hikers again...10 months and
counting. The city and fluorescent lights.

Nocona





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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Herriott 
Subject: [pct-l] What exactly is going on at Kennedy Meadows on June
12th? Thanks..
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:35:26 EDT
From: StoneDancer1@aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] Walkin' Time
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Well... so long for awhile. I leave day after tomorrow morning (Monday) at 
dark thirty for Agua Dulce and Hiker Heaven. Wed. morning I head out across 
the Mojave and northward on the PCT. I am unsubscribing for now... lest I 
have thousands of messages when I return. We (who are us) are a proflfic lot. 
Keep on talking.

No Way
Ray Echols

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:36:15 -0700
From: jape 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiking Next Year
To: PCT 

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Karen Borski wrote:

> The early PCT
> start means beginning on April 10 and feeling free to
> hike only 10-mile days for the first month. 

What a great plan. Talk about a no-stress start. I'll be looking
forward to reading how it works for you.

Eckert




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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:01:35 -0700
From: "JD Schaefer" 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiking Next Year
To: 

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Leisurely - yes, good for preparing the body for what's to come - yes, but .
. . . there are those stretches 20 miles and more between water. It then
means having to carry more water weight through the desert since there will
be more meals in between water sources because the daily mileage will be
relatively small.

On the other hand, I read someone's journal last week of this year's PCT, in
which he recounted of a fellow hiker who had just gone back to Campo for the
third time this Spring because he couldn't get through the snow and wasn't
going to section hike, so he figured he'd keep hiking over the same section
until the Trail was open enough to get through. He also said the flowers
were different each time.
JD
PCT GonnaBe 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jape" 
To: "PCT" 

Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiking Next Year


> Karen Borski wrote:
>
> > The early PCT
> > start means beginning on April 10 and feeling free to
> > hike only 10-mile days for the first month. 
>
> What a great plan. Talk about a no-stress start. I'll be looking
> forward to reading how it works for you.
>
> Eckert
>
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:45:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "dude" 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] A new subscriber and a question
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looks like there are some older out-of-print versions on sale at 
amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899970605

good luck.

peace,
dude


> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have just subscribed to the pct-l so I guess I should write a
> bit about myself before I start bombarding you with questions
> (actually, one question). My name is Roni and I’m an Israeli
> currently thruhiking the P.C.T.
> 
> You might have heard my name (usually accompanied by the words
> 'mad', 'crazy', etc.) due to three main reasons:
> 
> 
> 
> 1) I hiked the A.T. last winter - not one of my smartest decisions
> in life...
> 
> 
> 2) I’m known for the fact that honey buns are a main part of my
> hiking diet - I’ve eaten more than 1500 honeybuns this last
> year...
> 
> 
> 3) (The title I’m proud the most) - I am the king of zero days on
> the A.T. including the remarkable achievement of 19(!) consecutive
> zero days in one shelter - a record that hopefully won’t be broken
> in my lifetime.
> 
> I am now in Agua Dulce (450 miles from Mexico) and I have one
> problem you might be able to help me with:
> 
> It appears that the northern California part of the guide book
> won’t be published before I reach northern California - probably
> in less than a month (please correct me if I’m wrong).
> 
> 
> This means that the only guide book available for that section
> will be the old volume number one of the P.C.T. guidebook.
> Unfortunately, it seems that no one sells it any more. As I’m
> really enjoying reading the superb southern California guidebook I
> do not want to hike 800 miles without such a guide.
> 
> 
> If any one of you knows where I can find the out-of-print northern
> California P.C.T. guide book, or alternatively, how I can obtain
> the new guidebook I would be most thankful if you e-mail me to the
> address "roni_h3000@yahoo.com" .
> 
> And if anyone is interested in reading my infrequent entries about
> the P.C.T. you can find them in "www.trailjournals.com/roni/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roni
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:38:19 -0700
From: "JD Schaefer" 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] A new subscriber and a question
To: 

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Half.com has a few published 2000 starting at $16.
JD


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Cc: 

Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] A new subscriber and a question


> looks like there are some older out-of-print versions on sale at
> amazon.com:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899970605
>
> good luck.
>
> peace,
> dude
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I have just subscribed to the pct-l so I guess I should write a
> > bit about myself before I start bombarding you with questions
> > (actually, one question). My name is Roni and I'm an Israeli
> > currently thruhiking the P.C.T.
> >
> > You might have heard my name (usually accompanied by the words
> > 'mad', 'crazy', etc.) due to three main reasons:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) I hiked the A.T. last winter - not one of my smartest decisions
> > in life...
> >
> >
> > 2) I'm known for the fact that honey buns are a main part of my
> > hiking diet - I've eaten more than 1500 honeybuns this last
> > year...
> >
> >
> > 3) (The title I'm proud the most) - I am the king of zero days on
> > the A.T. including the remarkable achievement of 19(!) consecutive
> > zero days in one shelter - a record that hopefully won't be broken
> > in my lifetime.
> >
> > I am now in Agua Dulce (450 miles from Mexico) and I have one
> > problem you might be able to help me with:
> >
> > It appears that the northern California part of the guide book
> > won't be published before I reach northern California - probably
> > in less than a month (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> >
> >
> > This means that the only guide book available for that section
> > will be the old volume number one of the P.C.T. guidebook.
> > Unfortunately, it seems that no one sells it any more. As I'm
> > really enjoying reading the superb southern California guidebook I
> > do not want to hike 800 miles without such a guide.
> >
> >
> > If any one of you knows where I can find the out-of-print northern
> > California P.C.T. guide book, or alternatively, how I can obtain
> > the new guidebook I would be most thankful if you e-mail me to the
> > address "roni_h3000@yahoo.com" .
> >
> > And if anyone is interested in reading my infrequent entries about
> > the P.C.T. you can find them in "www.trailjournals.com/roni/
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Roni
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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