[pct-l] visual memory of the trail

[jjolson at uwyo.edu (Jeffrey J. Olson)]

I have a question.  I have my screensaver set to randomly select from 
1000 or so PCT pictures I've taken from the net over the last five or 
six years.  Sometimes as I sit at my desk doing something the 
screensaver will click on and I'll lose at least a couple minutes. 

I've also hiked a number of sections at least once, many more than 
that.  I have a really clear sense of the trail, a birds-eye-view if you 
will, in memory. 

I'm wondering what you all feel when you repeat a section of trail, or 
the whole trail?  When you start the climb up from the San Joaquin River 
to Emigrant Meadows, and you've done it twice, what's going through 
you?  What does looking at slideshows, over and over, do for you? 

I'm just curious about how people deal with repeating and knowing what 
is coming...

Thanks...

Jeff Olson (43 days and counting)
Laramie Wyoming (where we have 6" of snow on the ground and it continues 
to fall)