[pct-l] Training

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

I got it.  

Someone can leave a scale and a log book at the border just prior to the Kick 
Off.  Everyone that starts has to log their weight, height, experience, 
overall fitness and rate their own chances of making it.

Then once they reach Agua Dulce and/or Meadow Ed at Kennedy Meadows to check 
them off.  Other places up the trail, where most thru-hikers frequent, could 
also be used as weigh stations.

Sly

In a message dated 12/31/2004 9:12:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
steve_peterson@sbcglobal.net writes:

> "Although this may seem to offer evidence that anyone in any condition can 
> successfully complete a long hike, it does not say that the chance is 
> equally 
> good regardless of the hiker's starting condition. If all who attempted the 
> trip 
> had been queried the day they started, the results would have been very 
> different. What the data do say is that among 136 long-distance hikers who 
> survived at least several weeks, and usually much longer, a remarkable 
> "trail 
> conditioning" took place, putting all the hikers on a more or less equal 
> basis 
> once the first month was past."