[pct-l] first women solo....the pct..

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

In the book, Pacific Crest Trails, by Hazard, he reports that a woman in the 
Mt. Rainier, or Pacific Nth West, or (I forget the name right now) climbing 
club first suggested the idea of a trail stretching all of the way from the 
northern most tip of Alaska, down the Pacific coast mountains all of the way to 
the southern tip of Sth America. I don't recall that she hiked the equivalent of 
the PCT back then.  The first person ever to apparently hike from Canada to 
Mexico in one calendar year was Martin Papendick in 1952.  

Greg

In a message dated 12/8/2004 3:23:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
n.ruiz@verizon.net writes:
I read a pct book and it stated that a women first walked the trail in 1939 
or so,and according to the book,she had a great deal to do with the 
orgonization of the pct from Manning park,and she lived in Northern WA in 1930s   HL 
"theBull"