[pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good evening,

I've heard the same comment about Portland being the closest major city to a
designated wilderness area, but I don't buy it.  From what I see on the
mapping software, the southern edge of the San Gabriel Wilderness is only
about 5 air-miles from the northern edge of the Los Angeles Metroplex at
either Monrovia or Pasadena, and the PCT at that point is only about 13
miles away.  It looks like the PCT just barely crosses into the San Gabriel
Wilderness a few times on its north side.  The Cucamonga Wilderness about
the same distance from some of the more eastern suburbs, and the San
Bernardino Wilderness is less than 15 miles from San Bernardino

I also read in somewhere that, NoBo, Ashland was the first major city close
to the PCT.  Obviously, I don't buy that either.  It is not as close as Los
Angeleplex, and I don't see Ashland to be a major city.

I am fortunate to live east of Sandy, Oregon, which no one will ever confuse
with a "major US city", and I can be on the trail in the Mt. Hood Wilderness
in about a half hour if I want.

Steel-Eye



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Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita


> The Forest Sevice here claims that we have the closest designated
wilderness
> area (Mt Hood Wilderness)  to a major city in the US. And the PCT runs
right
> through it.
> I can be on the PCT within an hour of leaving my house. Assuming I walk
real
> fast.
>
> Carolyn Eddy
> "Sweet Goat Mama"
> www.goattracksmagazine.com
>
>
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