[pct-l] Solo backpacking

[Lonetrail at aol.com (Lonetrail@aol.com)]

Hi

I did the Wonderland Trail Solo and had a great time. I also did the JMT solo 
but was almost never alone. Met some great people and to this day we email. I 
am planing around 600 miles on the PC this summer.  Bear's don't worry about 
them, just get so dam tired your to tired to worry and fall asleep. Hell I got 
one of those binoculars digital camera to take their pictures.

lonetrail




I'm mulling over doing some backpacking on the PCT in the vicinity of 
Yosemite and/or Kings Canyon/Sequoia later on this summer.  It's sort of a John Muir 
pilgrimage. I've done some solo backpacking before up around Mount Rainier and 
in the North Cascades, but I'm always sort of uncomforatable.  I'm not so 
much worried about the "get hurt and not be able to get help" scanario as much as 
large predators.  My book on bear safety says I should always ask rangers 
about "food habituated" bears when I go packpacking, but most rangers I've asked 
seemed to think it was a sort of silly question.  One was even kind of rude 
about it ("We don't have food habituated bears *here*!" he said).  I love the 
back country and enjoy the solitude of a solo backpacking adventure, but I still 
have a lingering "bearanoia", as a friend put it.