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[pct-l] SOBO on the PCT (was PCT Start Date)
- Subject: [pct-l] SOBO on the PCT (was PCT Start Date)
- From: alyssarr at yahoo.com (Alyssa Rayman-Read)
- Date: Mon Jun 21 09:51:22 2004
- In-reply-to: <1e.2c6c5ee8.2e05de15@aol.com>
I would be interested in hearing from people who have
tried a SOBO hike, or from those who considered and
decided NOT to go SOBO. What are the pros and cons.
How much would I be alone if I went SOBO?
Thanks again,
Alyssa
--- ROYROBIN@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/18/04 10:33:13 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> Lars@standardarmament.com writes:
>
> > I am an AT '03 hiker now in grad school and aching
> to get back out
> > there, this time on the PCT, when I graduate next
> May. I want to start
> > planning so I have something to look forward to
> but wonder if I am
> > uneccesarily getting my hopes up - I won't be able
> to start until late
> > May, something like the 25th. Is this too late?
> What are the challenges
> > to starting this late and how many people do it?
>
> _____
>
> In a normal year, you might consider a southbound
> PCT hike starting in late
> May or early June. It all depends on the snow pack
> in the northern Cascades,
> but it's usually possible to get through the Sierras
> as late as October to
> complete a southbound hike.
>
> Whichever way you choose, do the hike. We have to
> hike while we have the
> chance, and these opportunities come at times of
> change in our lives... between
> graduation and the job, between jobs, between
> relationships or, for some of us,
> after retirement. So, go for it.
>
> The larger question seems to be: Is a SOBO PCT hike
> even an option in the
> next few years? The latest PCTA Communicator
> suggests that parts of the detour
> around Glacier Peak in Washington will be impassable
> until early or even
> mid-August. The fords of the Chiwawa and Napeequa
> Rivers are specifically
> mentioned. Such a warning by the PCTA is entirely
> appropriate. We don't want anyone
> killed or suffering a hike-ending injury through
> lack of information about
> trail conditions.
>
> However, snow levels and runoff vary from year to
> year. I hope people on
> this list who can do so will pass along
> up-to-the-minute information about trail
> conditions, particularly on the Glacier Peak detour.
> Strategies (if any) for
> a southbound PCT hike should be a topic for
> discussion at our next ALDHA-W
> meeting in October. That's Oct. 1-3, 2004, at Clair
> Tappaan Lodge, near the PCT
> at Donner Summit, CA. See:
> http://www.aldhawest.org/
> _____
>
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