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

[carlito at gmail.com (Carl Siechert)]

To clarify the kickoff number...
Last year, we had 145 people pre-registered for ADZPCTKO who self-identified
as "2005 thru hikers." We don't know:
a) How many were actually attempting a thru hike and how many checked the
wrong box
b) How many of those 145 actually showed up at the kickoff
c) How many additional, unregistered thru hikers showed up
d) How many started north from the border during that 3-day period and how
many started well before or after the kickoff
e) How many finished

All that is to say that the 145 number (which I tallied myself) is
unreliable, at best, and certainly shouldn't be conflated with the
completion rate.

The other oddity is that the purported number of 2005 completers is
significantly higher than 2004, in what was one of the most difficult years
for thru hikers.

Carl
ADZPCTKO Webmaster and registration counter


On 2/23/06, dsaufley@sprynet.com <dsaufley@sprynet.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>