[pct-l] Major Wanderlust happening here!

[jjolson at uwyo.edu (Jeffrey J. Olson)]

Tuolomne Meadows to Whitney or
Snoqualmie Pass to Stevens Pass

Jeff Olson
Laramie WY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Major Wanderlust happening here!


>
> This feels like withdrawal.  This is the first year in 5 that I don'thave
a
> large trip planned.
>
> Most people are satisfied with a few days out and back trip.  But even
from
> the beganning when I was climbing, I wanted to stay out all summer, and
> climb all the peaks on one ridge, go down into a pass and catch another
> ridge and continue for as long as I could.  Pretty hard to find another
> climber to do this.  Fortunately, for a while I had a husband that liked
> the same thing but he is now retired.
>
> Just hiking has never much satisfied me: I want to go somewhere.  It gets
> something down deep in my soul to be in a new wildness day after day,
> walking and packing.
>
> I wondered if it would be the same if I chose a 100 mile section of the
PCT
> and hiked it back and forth for 2,650 miles.  Or suppose I took an 80 mile
> segment and had a big cache on each end, and leisurely went back and forth
> and did every side trail and spent months in the same area, walking and
> absorbing one area.  Would it be the same?  Which 80-100 mile segment
would
> you choose?
>
> Goforth
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