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[pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita



Good evening, Shutterbug,

You are right, of course.  When I zoomed from the general 1:500,000 map down
to the 7.5' layer I just landed on the wrong name.  I guess I shouldn't have
had that second glass of Merlot.  However, I'm a small-town boy and as far
as I'm concerned everything from Santa Monica east to San
Bernardino/Riverside is all LA.

Steel-Eye


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shutterbug steiner" <shutterbugg313@yahoo.com>
To: "Sharon & Chuck Chelin" <chelin@teleport.com>; "pct"
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita


> I agree with the San Gabriel Wilderness area and would
> add Sheep Mountain Wilderness Area both North of LA
> metro.  Cucamonga Wilderness would also be (but
> barely) within the hour range of LA Metro.  The
> Wilderness I don't buy is the San Bernardino
> Wilderness - there are two wilderness areas in San
> Bernardino National Forest - San Gorgonio and San
> Jacinto but neither is within an Hour of LA and there
> is NO wilderness called San Bernardino.
>
> Just throwing names around having nothing better to do
> than fighting over name designations
>
> Duane - Shutterbug
>
> --- Sharon & Chuck Chelin <chelin@teleport.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "ECPG" <ecpg@peoplepc.com>
> > To: "PCT-List" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:45 PM
> > 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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