[pct-l] Hiking to Washington

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/16/2006 10:34:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
kdpo@gottawalk.com writes:

>>>>>The hike that Kraig proposes is doable - for a few  people. But those 
people 
are out at the end of the bell curve (Squeaky,  Scott Williamson, Flyin 
Brian, and several others). The normal thru-hiker  doesn't average 30 
miles/day, especially thru the Sierra in early  June.>>>>>
 
 
Not that I'm a negative kind of guy...but, it seems a bit unrealistic that  
this is doable.  Assuming the ideal of 30 miles a day, it would take 56 1/2  
days.  Allowing one day to get into Seattle puts the starting time from  Kennedy 
Meadows on May 6th.  Considering the impossibility of making 30  mile days 
through the Sierra in heavy snow, and the necessity of some resupply  time, It 
would be more like the last of April.  Then consider how much  further north 
the snow would last... Tuolumne Meadows still has snow at the end  of May...
 
Somebody out there do it, just to show me that I'm wrong......   :C)

 
 
"No Way Ray"  Echols