[pct-l] Charter a bus to Manning?

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

Hmmmm.  Not so sure I'd agree with this.  In '98, there were a boatload (sorry, I didn't count them) of hikers waiting here in Agua Dulce in a state of angst, wondering what they should do -- flip flop from here (since transportation options are much easier to arrange than they are from further north), or travel on.  Folks were waiting upwards of two weeks for the snow to melt off a bit at Kennedy Meadows.  It would not be a stretch to say that there were more than 20 hikers waiting about.  

Conditions can be radically different from one year to the next.  Our first year of hosting ('97), it was 105 degrees here in early June.  The next year it was in the 50s, with rain, and the snow pack so deep in the Sierras only 9 or 10 hikers made it through on a contiguous northbound thru-hike.  All others did a flip flop.   

Only time will tell what this year holds. My motto:  make no predictions, but be ready for any contingency!  

-=Donna Saufley=-



-----Original Message-----
From: Brett <blisterfree@isp01.net>
Sent: Mar 13, 2005 11:17 AM
To: pct list <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Charter a bus to Manning?

I could be dead wrong, but it seems far-fetched to imagine 
35 or more PCT hikers all boarding a bus in unison at any 
one locale along the trail, singing 99 bottles of beer on 
their way to Manning, happily disgorging into the bracing 
air of the Great White North, and trundling southward o'er 
the border and back to Oz.

I would really love to see that though!

In my experience, one can lag at trailside just long enough 
to water a tree, then return to the path to discover 
everyone's vanished, up ahead and uncatchable for at least a 
week. Which is actually my new litmus test for whether a 
trail offers a sufficient amount of solitude. (Mine were 
healthy hikes.)

- bf

> Actually that's not real bad if you can get 35 people on 
> it. Where would it
> pick up and drop off? Kennedy Meadows to Manning?
> Still keeping my fingers crossed for a snow melt though.
> Pat


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