[pct-l] Class of 05 thru-hike completion rate?

[dpbraunstein at hotmail.com (Daniel Braunstein)]

Does anyone know why are the 04 numbers so low?  Was there some sort of 
factor that year that would cause that? I mean, one would expect a drop like 
that in a year like 05.

Daniel


>From: yogi <yogihikes@sbcglobal.net>
>To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Class of 05 thru-hike completion rate?
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:51:34 -0800 (PST)
>
>As far as I know, Puck is no longer with the PCTA.  He was part of the PCTA 
>at last year's Trail Fest, but by the time the Kickoff rolled around, he 
>had disappeared.  No one's heard from him.
>
>   Meadow Ed sent me a copy of his "2600 Mile Club" which is a list of 
>everyone they can think of who has completed the PCT ever.  The list of 
>completions goes back to 1952.  Who are "they" who compile this 
>information?
>
>   Meadow Ed
>   The Teutonic Knight
>   Harriet Von Alkier
>   and the late Bob Norton
>
>   The list has 145 completions for 2005.
>
>   In contrast, here are the figures for the last 10 years:
>
>   2005 - 145
>   2004 - 45
>   2003 - 126
>   2002 - 135
>   2001 - 131
>   2000 - 131
>1999 - 90
>   1998 - 51
>   1997 - 82
>   1996 - 82
>
>    . . . . and of course, we can't forget the Class of 1977 - 38 
>completions.
>
>   yogi
>   www.pcthandbook.com
>
>
>
>David Plotnikoff <david@emeraldlake.com> wrote:
>   Hello from a long-time list-lurker and section hiker.
>
>Just wanted to check if I somehow missed a PCT-l digest with the final
>tally on how many made it thru on the crazy, upside-down, back-and-forth,
>snow-crossed, yo-yo year that was 2005. I recall talk of Meadow Ed and
>others waiting to get the names from the final registers at Manning, but I
>didn't hear anything after that.
>
>Particularly in a wild year such as the one we just had, I'm wondering if
>comparing the registers at Campo and Manning is really the best course
>here. I would never tell these guys how to do their job, but let me ask a
>question:
>
>Wouldn't it be more accurate to start by defining the set as all thrus who
>were issued a permit by the PCTA for the entirety of the trail, nobo or
>sobo -- and then create subsets based on who signed at Campo and Manning
>(regardless of when they signed,where they started, where they finished)?
>
>That would eliminate mis-counting people such as myself -- who started
>(and signed in) at Campo and only intended to go as far as Whitney. I
>wouldn't want my 800-mile hike to be calculated into the overall success
>percentage for the class. (In other words, I don't want to drag down the
>curve... )
>
>Last time I checked, Beau "Puck" Baker was the man at PCTA central who was
>in charge of issuing the thru permits. Perhaps an inquiry with him might
>yield a better raw list of class members and then we can work from there?
>
>Again, these were just questions I had. And in no way would I want to come
>across as telling anyone else how to do the success rate calculation ...
>The numbers I've heard kicked around without attribution are just all over
>the map. My personal guess, based on the experiences of those who hiked
>roughly when I did: 25 percent border-to-border success rate.
>
>Maybe we should have a betting pool ...
>
>See you on the trail,
>
>DP
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