[pct-l] twists and turns in the grandaddy of the san diego county mountains

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

the San Felipe hills are some of the oldest mountains in san diego county,
so you get to follow the endless deeeeeeep contours of millions of years of
erosion.


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Subject: [pct-l] twists and turns


> > The Trail through the San Felipe Hills must do a
> tremendous amount of tight switchbacking and steep
> grade differentials
>
>
> You can almost tell when a particular section of
> the PCT was built.    If it religiously avoids
> grades in excess of USFS standard 15%, taking
> extraordinary or even ridiculous pains to do so,
> it was probably built after the NST act of 1968.
> It appears that many sections, this one in San
> Felipe in particular, were built by contractors
> paid by the mile.     I don't think that was quite
> the legal reality, but it does LOOK as if it was.
> Thus the comment in the guide book that the
> length of the PCT increases a little bit each
> year.
>
> Badly eroded, straight up/down trails were
> probably pre-existing and incorporated into the
> PCT in 1968.
>
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