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

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

I think the number has been applied to the wrong event; Bob Reiss had informed me that there were 145 thru hikers (section and day hikers removed from count) that started north from the southern terminus between Friday-Sunday of Kick-Off weekend last year.  It would be incredibly strange if the number also applied to finishers, too, but I guess stranger things have happened.  

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
>From: The Mountain Goat <themtgoat@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 22, 2006 9:03 PM
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>Subject: [pct-l] Class of 05 thru-hike-completion rate?
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>      Hm... This is interesting. I got a spead sheet off the yahoo.pct2005 forum.
>After looking over it, I was able to count 75 finishers. Including all the Flip floppers, skipers and staight thru-ers.
>
>I found 1 missing person, for a total of 76 finishers.
>how did they come up with 145? Were they including the multi-year finishers of something? (Yes I know it had over 400 people on it, but that was a complete list of everyone on the trail.)
>
>-Mountain Goat-
>one of 75, 76, 145, or 300 thru-hikers on the PCT?
>
>
>---------------------------------
>    
>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
>
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