[pct-l] visual memory of the trail

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

The main thing that goes through my mind in repeat sections is noting the
differences since the last time I passed through.  Maybe it's the subtle
letdown I felt passing through the upper rush creek drainage south side of
donahue pass midday with not alot going on, after previously experiencing it
in the magical evening light during an awesome stage of the melt - or maybe
it's "boy I feel alot better and I'm making way better time than I did last
time I passed through this area" - similar to Brian Robinson's comments
about passing 3 of his earlier thru hike campsites since he was trippling
his previous efforts......Never have I felt tired of an area though, the
differences each time are enough to keep it interesting.

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey J. Olson" <jjolson@uwyo.edu>
To: "PCT List" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:09 AM
Subject: [pct-l] visual memory of the trail


> 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)
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