[pct-l] Re: Early April Start

[m.karon at attbi.com (Marshall Karon)]

Early April starts are OK in low snow years. But, I know that if you hit
lots of snow, you may be road walking and not on the trail. Or, you may need
to sit out a week some place waiting for the snow to melt. You are taking
your chances.

In other words, starting early may or may not get you ahead.


Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@attbi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Borski" <kborski@yahoo.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Re: Early April Start


> ------snip------
> >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
> thenmeans having to carry more water weight through
> the desert since there willbe more meals in between
> water sources because the daily mileage will
> berelatively small.
> ------snip------
>
> Actually, regarding the long waterless stretches, I am
> sure that I will opt for longer miles through there.
> It's not that an early start means 10 miles every day,
> but it means that you don't HAVE to hike 20 miles
> every day to start with, and as someone mentioned, you
> can take whole days off in the early trail towns, like
> Julian, without guilt that it's threatening your
> schedule.  I really want to take a day off there to
> check out the wolf sanctuary.  The year I hiked
> through, we were feeling the pressure of high miles
> from Day 1.  Waterless stretches are the sections
> where I prefer long miles, siestas and night-hiking.
>
> Thanks for everyone's input.  I'm now thinking very
> positively of an early April start.
>
> Nocona
>
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