[pct-l] Fuller Ridge Switchbacks

[cmkudija at earthlink.net (Christine Kudija)]

<<You just walked straight down a knife blade steep
| ridge which was one of the scariest pieces of trail on the entire PCT!!
>>

I recall reading in Cindy Ross's book "Journey on the Crest" that hikers
tended to get "lost" in that section.  Perhaps the knife-blade ridge had
something to do with it?  Gawd, I hated the twists & turns of the
switchbacks in '94, but I would've hated a steep knife blade descent even
more.

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top.
Then you will see how low it was."  Dag Hammarskjold

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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Fuller Ridge Switchbacks


|   Maybe there was too much money left in the budget on that section. An
| 8,000ft. descend in 16 miles. ( 500 ft per mile) That's not too bad
really, it's
| just that you can see the whole thing from 16 miles away looking down hill
,but
| not feeling like your ever dropping. If I were hiking uphill though , I
might
| be happy for 500 per mile climb verses 1,000 ft per mile for 8 miles
instead.
| In 1977 , you dropped 8,000 in 4 miles which made it seem like going down
a
| killer ride at a water park!! You just walked straight down a knife blade
steep
| ridge which was one of the scariest pieces of trail on the entire PCT!!
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